calicakes

So crowded in old town.

Lunch in Luminae. Herb roasted chicken. We both had it. No dessert. Some type of risotto on the side.

The water is so blue. Dubrovnik.

Half an eggs Benny with scrambled. I can't eat runny yolk. J had oatmeal and fruit. The fruit has been good, very sweet. I banana pancake.

We are currently on Reflection and we are watching Netflix on my laptop. I signed in through Netflix dot com. No issue.

We did not take any public transportation while we were in Rome. We did not have to wear masks in any Uber, or taxi, or limo to the port.

I tried some of the roast turkey from the buffet it was pretty good. The fresh vegetables are cooked well. I could not finish this plate of food. The 2 deserts from luminae were both very good. A Passion fruit soufflé and a milk chocolate brownie. I was surprised that the soufflé is actually a soufflé.

I'm sure your granddaughter is going to be thrilled with her own premium Internet.

Thanks.

Nothing on the Luminae spoke to us, so we just went to OV for dinner. We tried one bite of 2 different desserts and then said NO. Both terrible. We just ordered dessert from Luminae from our butler.

Wow, not only do I have premium, John( retreat host) just called back to tell me that Julie also has premium internet. It only took 3 days to figure that out. She's happy, she can catch up on the good reads site.

Yay, you are CORRECT!! Thank you. I just spoke with the Retreat Host and he confirmed that I do have premium. He said I upgraded it before the cruise began( I did, because I had 1k of non refundable OBC). They are refunding it back to our account. Funny how no one tells you that upfront. They just allow you to book it again.

Does it come with premium? Why would they take 300 bucks from me?

Yep, Julie was excepting a slice of cheesecake. She enjoyed the ricotta balls though.

I did have a nice chat with her on our first day. She has followed through with the few things I asked about. She is working really hard. I haven't seen a lot of crew on this floor, not like in years past. The room attendant is also working hard.

We spent the majority of the day at the pool. I won a few prize tickets in "guess the name of the song and artist". After lunch at OV, we got off and walked into the port to pick up a few gifts for people at home. The prices are higher than in Corfu, so if you want to Greek Olive Oil, I'd pick it up in Corfu. We were just delivered a cheese plate with Carr's entertaining cracker assortment.( will post pic later). One thing I've noticed at OV, they have changed the tuna from Albacore to chunk light( what I call "cat food tuna". I'm sad about that because I always enjoyed a scoop of tuna salad on my garden salad at lunch. I can't eat that chunk light tuna. This is where my food pickiness shows.

OMG, I'd be going crazy. My fingers are crossed and I've touched wood that we don't come down with it. I brought an entire medicine cabinet with us. We had our 5th booster on Sept 8th. Did you have to quarantine with her? Tomorrow is already day 4 of the cruise.

Hi. I don't have a feeling yet. I've seen more sneezing vs. coughing. If I asked someone how many cases of Covid were onboard, I doubt I'll told the truth.

You have an awesome plan. We pretty much follow the same, having a lighter lunch. At home, we eat small dinners. We never finish the entire dessert here. They are very rich.

I did speak to a pool attendant supervisor. I asked how long a chair can be saved and they told me 45 minutes. It took an hour and 45 minutes before they came back to the chairs.

This irritates me. How long is too long to leave your things?

I've been walking steadily at home for the last 4 months and I've lost 10 pounds. I don't want to go home weighing more. I walked 8 times around the track this morning.

Breakfast in Luminae. I came out to the waiter and told him about my weight loss surgery(9yrs ago) and that I only want half portions of everything I order. He took it quite literally and gave me one asparagus instead of 2 and 1 potato instead of 2. Lol I had the egg white wrap no tomato and 1 crepe. Julie had the waffle. I went to Al Bacio and got a sugar free frappe. Julie ordered a caramel croissant. It was good.

Sorry about the lighting in last night's dinner pictures, we were seated by a window and the sun was blaring in.

Dinner last night. I have this shrimp cocktail on the main dining room menu. I found the shrimp to be very small.. For main dish I had the herb roasted chicken. Julie had the filet. Dessert was a hazelnut something or other. Julie ordered the chocolate Napoleon I told her she would like that but it's not what I know as an Napoleon and we both didn't care for it. We stopped at Al bacio and look at the desserts there. Dry cake doesn't sound appealing.