Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[Luckynana]

 

You are in my thoughts on this Holocaust  Remembrance Day, @dani negreanu,Dani and your family,  @BonTexasNY, Bonnie, Jack, and family, and @lenquixote66, Lenny, Toby, and family.🙏🌹

[Arzeena]

18 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

 

You are in my thoughts on this Holocaust  Remembrance Day, @dani negreanu,Dani and your family,  @BonTexasNY, Bonnie, Jack, and family, and @lenquixote66, Lenny, Toby, and family.🙏🌹

Plus 1 🥰

[Keksie]

At Nassau today. 5 ships were here.  MSC Seahorse, Carnival Mardi Gras, Carnival Elation and one other ship.  We went to Atlantis and had a great time.  I would go back for a land trip.  

 

[Ken at the beach]

OMG!!!!

 

 

It will be very hard going back to Royal.  More details later.

[h20skibum]

3 hours ago, Luckynana said:

Thank you, Mark!🥰 

 With so much going on for you, I do hope it has been all good!😉

Some good, and some not so good.

 

Good, as far as the latest scans for our daughter last week.

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

[Ocean Boy]

18 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

OMG!!!!

 

 

It will be very hard going back to Royal.  More details later.

Hmm, I'm not sure if that is good or bad news.

[Ocean Boy]

39 minutes ago, Keksie said:

At Nassau today. 5 ships were here.  MSC Seahorse, Carnival Mardi Gras, Carnival Elation and one other ship.  We went to Atlantis and had a great time.  I would go back for a land trip.  

 

How did you like the renovated port area? I seem to be in the minority in that I really like Nassau.

[Ocean Boy]

6 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Some good, and some not so good.

 

Good, as far as the latest scans for our daughter last week.

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

Glad to hear the news about your daughter.

[Sea Dog]

10 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Some good, and some not so good.

 

Good, as far as the latest scans for our daughter last week.

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

So sorry for your loss. Sounds like a wonderful celebration of life.

[Keksie]

5 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

How did you like the renovated port area? I seem to be in the minority in that I really like Nassau.

I really like it too.  The port area was clean and hassle free.  Didn't go out of the area except to go to Atlantis. Atlantis was a lot of fun and I would go back.

[Keksie]

Nassau's port area didn't seem crowded even with 5 ships

[Arzeena]

26 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Some good, and some not so good.

 

Good, as far as the latest scans for our daughter last week.

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

I a sorry for the loss of your friend.

Glad that all is good news with daughter.

[George C]

23 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Hmm, I'm not sure if that is good or bad news.

I am taking a break fro. Royal next couple or more of my cruises will be celebrity suites or MSc yacht club but definitely interested in ‘ourusualbeach’ new line .

[Keksie]

[dani negreanu]

28 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Glad to hear the news about your daughter.

 

+ 1 👍 👍 🙏 🙏

 

24 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

So sorry for your loss. Sounds like a wonderful celebration of life.

 

+1 😢   Mark & Susan  @h20skibum

[bobmacliberty]

3 minutes ago, George C said:

I am taking a break fro. Royal next couple or more of my cruises will be celebrity suites or MSc yacht club but definitely interested in ‘ourusualbeach’ new line .

 

Same with us.  We have a family cruise coming up on Wonder but then probably Oceania next for us to try out the "best food at sea".  We'll stay with Royal for multigenerational cruising but want to try other lines as just a couple.  Very interested in what Ken thinks (post cruise).

[FromSea2ShiningSea]

I am back on CC!  Let’s continue and finish my Japan journey.  We have pre-cruise tours set up for the next 4 days before we embark Millennium.

 

Day 11- 4/5/2024 Tokyo City Tour- This will be our meeting spot for all pre-cruise tours, at the center lounge of the Hyatt Regency Tokyo where we meet our tour guides.

 

Today’s itinerary- Nezu Shrine, Azalea Festival - “The Nezu Shrine (1705) is one of the oldest and most beautiful Shinto shrines in Tokyo.  Every year, from around April 2 until the beginning of May, the shrine holds Tsutsuji Matsuri (Azalea Festival)”

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, the azaleas are late blooming this year just as cherry blossoms are blooming late because of weather that’s been unusually cold.

 

 

Tokyo National Museum (1872)- “is the oldest and largest of Japan’s top-level national museums.  The Museum features the largest and best collections of art and archeological artifacts of Japan.”

 

We are having a whale of a day

 

Rikugien (1702), “the ‘Six-Poem-Garden”, is considered Tokyo’s most beautiful landscaped garden.  The garden reflects 88 scenes from Classical Japanese and Chinese literature.”

 

 

The view from the Fukiage Chaya( Traditional Tea House)

 

We get to try the Matcha Tea with a little snack

 

Back in town, lots of admirers of the beautiful trees at a shrine in the middle of the city.

 

 

 

 

[George C]

5 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

 

Same with us.  We have a family cruise coming up on Wonder but then probably Oceania next for us to try out the "best food at sea".  We'll stay with Royal for multigenerational cruising but want to try other lines as just a couple.  Very interested in what Ken thinks (post cruise).

Oceania sounds good , but I believe there ships are fairly small wouldn’t want to cruise to Bermuda in a smaller ship . I agree want to hear from Ken . 

[DaniDanielle]

2 hours ago, Arzeena said:

Plus 1 🥰

Plus 2

[DaniDanielle]

35 minutes ago, dani negreanu said:

 

+ 1 👍 👍 🙏 🙏

 

 

+1 😢   Mark & Susan  @h20skibum

+2

[ReneeFLL]

10 hours ago, Ourusualbeach said:

Here is our cabin for the week.  Stateroom 8083 which is one of a few that can have 2 twin beds as opposed to one king (they don't separate like Royal's so you avoid that hump in the middle.  Pretty nice location, nice and close to the aft elevators.

 

https://explorajourneys.com/ca/en/ships/deckplans

 

 

 

 

Ours suite is the entry level stateroom

 

https://explorajourneys.com/ca/en/suites/Ocean-Suites/ocean-terrace-suite

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice room.

[akcruz]

1 hour ago, h20skibum said:

Some good, and some not so good.

 

Good, as far as the latest scans for our daughter last week.

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

 

Glad to hear your daughters scan are good but sorry to hear about your friend.  Sounds like a great send off although bittersweet.

[Luckynana]

1 hour ago, h20skibum said:

 

 

Not so good, in that our friend, Greg, passed away unexpectedly from complications due to a cardiac event.  He was a musician, and played with several bands in his career.  Very talented on keyboard, brass and vocals.  Susan and I helped out with the funeral dinner.

 

His funeral was unlike any I had ever been to.  Many of his band members came and played some of his favorites as a tribute.  At the end of the service, a video appeared on the screens of Greg playing and singing  an arrangement that was perfect for the end.  There wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and I guess he got to play at his own funeral.

 

RIP Greg.  You will be missed.

 

 

 

Wonderful news about your daughter's scans last week.

I am so sorry, Susan and Mark, about your dear friend Greg's sudden passing.  It's so hard when someone you love is gone.  He certainly was a very talented musician and entertainer.  May he Rest in Peace.🙏

(((Hugs))) for you and Susan💔

[Luckynana]

1 hour ago, Keksie said:

 

I don't think any of us on our Dani thread can not think of @Ocean Boy whenever we see a Lighthouse!  And, that's a good thing!!!🥰

[A&L_Ont]

2 hours ago, Ourusualbeach said:

OMG!!!!

 

 

It will be very hard going back to Royal.  More details later.

Dress code and flow rider, my two questions.😂