August 25th review of the SS Minnow...I mean the Breakaway

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I should add Pretzel, the Haven Asst Maitre'd asked where Doug was.  I told her he wasn't feeling well.  She sent him chicken soup and a grill cheese!!!

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Sara and I wondered the ship for a little bit...

 

Then she dumped me for her friends... So I wandered myself until I found my friends

 

The place is like a ghost town....Can you guess where everyone is???

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Back to Malting's I go!!!

 

We had three new members join our group...

 

An Orange fish

A drunk chick

A Carrot fish

 

I'm not really sure how Christian was able to deal with us!!!

 

Went went O'Sheehan's again...I guess so did everyone else..  So Nick says...Flash your gold card... We'll get seated quick... sure enough, we were seated in about 20 minutes.

 

Return to Miami...Still unknown

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I got up early and roamed the ship...Stopped by the Haven to grab some breakfast... no food porn.. nothing very egg-citing about eggs.

 

Pretty fruit sculptures...

 

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Just in case you are wondering, we weren't alone....

 

Meet the cruise ship conga line

 

We are the orange in the circle... being followed by a Disney ship, 4 Carnival ships, and an unknown cruise line (it said I just never heard of them).

 

Sara & I in our ships....

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I finally decide to cave and change my flight to Wednesday...

 

While sitting on my balcony, we saw dolphins (they were too quick to photograph) and jellyfish.  the bright white spots are jellyfish...Note, how slow we are moving...

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Lunch time!!!!

 

Doug and I went to the Haven

 

Sara went to the "other" french restaurant

 

Brie Burger...yummmmm

 

We begin to make plans with other passengers for a Halloween party, Thanksgiving, and Christmas... Since we are all still in the dark at this time...

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Guess where we end up tonight???  Let me remind you .... It's still Sunday....

 

Hey David, Ruby is still partying it up with us!!!! @Ancient Cruiser

 

Unfortunately, the orange fish, carrot fish and the drunk girl never resurfaced...

 

Sara is off with her friends!!!!

 

9:09PM... Surprise!!!!  We are dumping you off in NOLA on the 3rd!!!  You better get you crap packed!!  We were still packed at this point.... We even sent out a second bag of laundry!

 

 

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1 hour ago, Shoppie124 said:

I get up from my comfy bar seat and ask one of the people in a suit at LaCucina (I won't say which one as I don't was to get them in trouble).

 

They knew nothing of the change.

 

I then go up to the Haven.  I asked Bowen what he knew.  as he was reading this, the Captain came on and said the Port of Miami has been closed.  They working with local authorities and the Coast Guard...  Return to Miami unknown. 

 

This just in...your guess is as good as ours!!!

 

Now is when the fun really begins.

 

I missed something... On my way back to comfy bar stool, I was stopped the same LaCucina person I mentioned earlier and was asked if I could share everything else I knew since I knew more than they did!!!

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On 9/6/2019 at 9:13 AM, Shoppie124 said:

Lunch was next...trust me if you have a weak stomach...skip this post!

 

Frank took us to a local restaurant near where he lives.  Lunch consisted on a margarita for me, Salvavida beer for Doug and a sprite fore Sara.  I had shrimp, fried plantains, salad and beans & rice.  Doug had....brace yourself....iguana!

 

The locals we talked to felt iguana was a step above chicken🤢. Doug actually enjoyed it.  He said there were a lot of little bones and it had a fishy chicken taste...he said he’d order it again.  I couldn’t get past the skin...

 

You may have noticed Sara didn’t eat..  Well, Frank shared with us that fishing was the top income producer on the island followed by tourism... Seems there is a type of barracuda that can be caught off the island that is poisonous.  The way they tell if it is safe to eat, they put a piece of the fish near an ant hill.  If the ants eat it and live, it’s safe for humans.  Needless to say...Sara decided she wasn’t hungry.

Sara does not look impressed lol as I wouldn't be.

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1 minute ago, joejoe 59 said:

Sara does not look impressed lol as I wouldn't be.

She was not!!! Let me tell you!!!

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Feeling like I keep bouncing around....

 

We ran into Mihaela (The F&B director).  I told her we could live without Rye bread, romaine lettuce and chocolate covered strawberries but the second we are out of limes, the will be a mutiny!!!

 

If you hear anyone saying we were running out of food...THEY ARE LYING!!!

 

The "other" french restaurant had plenty to eat!!!

 

Interesting to note:

 

Spice H20 - out of limes, out of Bud

O'Sheehans - out of limes, has Bud

Maltings - has limes, out of Bud

Haven - has limes, had Bud

 

But nowhere could you find Rye bread, romaine lettuce and chocolate covered strawberries.

Edited September 7, 2019 by Shoppie124
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[emm126]

Hi- Really enjoying your review and can't wait to see what happens next-lol. I do want to say a couple pages back a wallet with a Citibank credit card is on the table, you can see some of the numbers. I think you should remove that for your security, just in case. I just had my info stolen and it is a pain in the butt. Carry on!

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Our last day at Sea....

 

I wonder if Skipper, Gilligan, MaryAnn, Ginger, the Professor and the Howells would have felt like this (if they knew their trip was almost done)????

 

You will note, the outdoor furniture is inside... a hint we overstayed our welcome??

 

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3 minutes ago, emm126 said:

Hi- Really enjoying your review and can't wait to see what happens next-lol. I do want to say a couple pages back a wallet with a Citibank credit card is on the table, you can see some of the numbers. I think you should remove that for your security, just in case. I just had my info stolen and it is a pain in the butt. Carry on!

Thanks for the heads up!!!  Funny thing is I can't even read all the numbers anymore on that credit card (I had to memorize them).  I'll double check it..

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Wow!  We are actually going to NOLA!!! 

 

Followed by the Sun!

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4 minutes ago, Shoppie124 said:

Thanks for the heads up!!!  Funny thing is I can't even read all the numbers anymore on that credit card (I had to memorize them).  I'll double check it..

oh maybe you can't see the numbers, I am a little blind lol and didn't really look that hard. Better to be safe than sorry.

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I forgot to post the communications we received.  NCL needs to do a better job with their communications!!!

 

Document 1:  It specifically says "If you did not fly into Miami"... Well we didn't fly into Miami, we flew into Ft Lauderdale....  I asked do I fill this in.. I was told yes.. I filled it in.

 

Document 2 & 3 are front & back of the same page:  "we will cover up to $300 per person in change fees"... hmmm well what about additional airfare???

 

The Communications person needs to find a new job!

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Missed this one... our conga line is now a rave

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Breakfast started with a mimosa

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Then a walk around the ship....

 

This is what the atrium looked like at 10am

 

These are all people wasting their last sea day waiting in line to make changes to heir flights...

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A stop by Waves to see Christian... and have a Hurricane...  too soon??? 🤣

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Then back to the Haven for lunch and this fabulous drink Davidette made me...so good...I had 2!!!!

 

I really wish I could take her home!!!

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Next I stopped to see Bowen...

 

I told him I had a super serious question to ask him and he better think before he answers....

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My question was...

 

Can you explain to me why my daughter in on a different colored ship going the other way????🤣🤣🤣

 

His response...

A high five and he said -

We were just next to a Disney ship, she probably jumped onto that ship🤣🤣🤣