LIVE— Norwaylady goes b2b on Sil 27.March to 10.April in the Caribbean

[tce40]

7 minutes ago, Norwaylady said:

@DaKahuna @Barwick Cruiser 

thank you😂😂😂❤️

 

i blame fresh air, fish and good 🧬 

a not so polished Mr joining me in Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 2008

 

this is from February 2009, it was the first time I took Mr to Thailand 🇹🇭 My favourite ❤️ 

 

From our wedding day 16.October 2010

 

my insta celebration for our 10years wedding anniversary in 2020🥳🥰🥂

 

Mr & Mrs JA is changing during the years😅🙃

If it is for the better or worse is hard to say…..

Neither of you have aged at all.  Beautiful pictures.  

[sunviking90]

5 hours ago, Norwaylady said:

Rise & Shine😎

Sun is shining, I took it slowly in bed. Reading the newspaper and just waiting for Mr to wake up…..

 

We had a great news waiting on our voice mail yesterday evening🙃 

Our special request will happen🥳🤩🎁

So I’m very happy for it and our nephew will have a real treat on his gift table on his confirmation in May…..(it will be fun see how long it takes before our nephew understands the gift or rest of the family😅🤩⚓️) 

 

Mr knows that if you receive a gift from me, you need to check it or study it carefully….. The details will probably give you a hint or two…..

 

When my mother was given a cruise from us. ( I took her on Jewel in Dubai) She had a water bottle for Christmas….. (it was a bottle mail) but she didn’t open the bottle or check it out further…. She just read the card on the gift saying she was occupied from then to then….

(We celebrated Christmas by Mr’s family) 

So she didn’t find the packing list…

 

She called me a few days before departure and asked if smart casual was okay. (I didn’t think about it, to ask if she had opened the bottle) 

 

So we left for Dubai, she was super happy for warm weather and a fancy hotel on the palm pre cruise🥰

In the morning I told her, we need to pack up… we are leaving for next part of our adventure…..

I gave her an envelope holding the luggage tags. (She’s seen them before when we cruise)……..

 

 

 

 

She was so happy🥹🥹🥹

 

My father is very homey… and when you mention cruises for him… he’s bringing out all prejudices he can find…..

 

So then the girls can have fun together🥰🤩🥳😎

 

Back to our day😎

Breakfast in Tuscan. Mini bagels, fruit etc. Happy Mr😘 

 

At 11.00 the captain will speak in the theatre. It’s the ocean ahead talk+ Q/A after. Mr always enjoy this. 

I’m preparing for a walk on deck💪🏻

That’s so sweet! What a wonderful thing to do for your mother.

[Norwaylady]

Just now, sunviking90 said:

That’s so sweet! What a wonderful thing to do for your mother.

She deserves it❤️

She had a big birthday in September that year and my father just wants to stay home during holidays…. As a professor in the university, he’s always occupied on a science project, a new article to finish…. So he prefers to stay home in the home office😝 So he can work anytime🙈 

He has turned into a an “grumpy old man” in some issues😅😜 

So I decided it was time to take her on a cruise! 
She had a great time🤩

She was on Voyager in the Baltic last May by me. She had a great time again ❤️
 

I will bring my mother on Infinity soon⚓️🥂❤️ She knows she’s going on a cruise , but she doesn’t know I booked AQ…. And she loves saunas🙃 So she will be very pleased❤️ 

 

[Norwaylady]

Okey, this has been a day to relax. 

Norwaylady went for a good walk on deck. 2h power walk. (If you ask the crew, they can tell how many rounds😜) 

 

Mr attended Ocean’s ahead. 

Captain George is very welcome and a great speaker. So a happy camper arrived on deck to watch my last laps around the track😎

Lunch was a picnic from Aqua Spa Café. Mozzarella tomato salad and salmon mousse. It was delicious👏🏻

Dessert was melon from ocean view. 

 

Then it was time to walk down for a shower and a little downtime on the bed. 

 

Today’s canapés had arrived. 

[Altamar]

Great pictures! 

[NBliving]

Great pictures of you two over the years! You’ve had a lot of great trips and more to come 🛳️🐢

[vickykay]

Wonderful photos!  Thanks so much for sharing.

[Norwaylady]

Tonight’s show is Euphoria, a production show. 

 

During the b2b meeting yesterday. Some cruisers asked for deals on beverage/dinner etc. 

Alex, the document officer said they were occupied. But you will get a notification tomorrow… aka today. 

We haven’t received any response. Not by phone or by letter. 

 

For us, this doesn’t matter. We have WiFi/call. And we don’t tend to do special dining. 

We have tried Murano twice on other S-ships and we had a 4-night dining package on Edge when she was new on our b2b. Tuscans dinner menu is not tempting for us. 

Sushi is nice, but it’s insanely expensive compared to home. (El cheapo me say No🙈) 

 

But for those who asked it might be a bit grumpy mode…..since they haven’t followed up this. 

 

Back to tonight’s show🤩 

Wow, this is really a great show again.

Euphoria is a good show and the acrobatic is really a high score. We seen it before, but it’s really a great show. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is live and things can happen…😱 an acrobat fell off the ❤️ heart. She smashed into the stage😰 

They had a technical break, they said she’s okay. But it didn’t look good😰 Fingers crossed she’s doing fine. 

The show must go on is a saying… and it did. 

It’s really a great show❤️ 

 

At 20.00 it was time for CeCe Teneal in grand foyer.

She’s a show🤩🤩🤩

They really saved the best to the last❤️

 

Tonight’s we had: 

Apple pear salad

 

Boston lettuces 

 

Duck Rillettes

 

Cajun drum fish ( the Cajun seasoning is very salty, it’s what we use on French fries as seasoning 🧂 only thing is that the box in the store is called pommfri krydder😝) 

 

Short rib

 

Cherry jubilee 

 

Apple pie

 

Giri, Kheshav and Vincent is excellent in service. They are a great time, nothing wrong in them. They can’t be blamed for the French neighbours🙃 On the good side, I had to brush up on my French and Mr had to try to understand. 

When is comes to our tv neighbours, this is another story… but again, X can’t tell in advance if it’s good or bad neighbours you will be seated at🙃

For the next cruise, we are still not informed if they keep us on select dining or if they have moved us to set time 20.30😝 

Time will tell tomorrow night🙃

 

After the disaster in Vancouver on our b2b on Eclipse , Mr has decided that we will follow the group tomorrow at 09.00. We don’t want to stand in line for 2hours…..

The entire process was awful on Eclipse as individuals. 

On Edge the individual transit worked painless. So fingers crossed it will be easy and painless 😇 

[Bo1953]

21 hours ago, Norwaylady said:

We have 15years wedding anniversary in 2025…. 
Our 10years celebration in 2020 was nothing as planned🙈 our 16n Asian cruise was down the drain and all restaurants etc closed🙈🙈🙈 So it was a good dinner at home alone celebration by our cats 🐈 🍾 

 

So we have booked a Galapagos cruise for October 2025🥳🥳🥳 

 

Congrats!!!

 

bon voyage

[Barwick Cruiser]

Omg, I really hope that gymnast is ok, I remember that show from our same sailing in Feb…agree that they were all very good at their performances. We met a couple of them during the backstage tour…one couple is married and the other are best friends. They keep the gymnasts/aerialists pairs together from contract to contract but the dancers and singers get mixed up between contracts. We really enjoyed all the entertainment, including David, the cruise director, very funny. 
Thank you for all the live posting, lucky you to get another four days…wonder how the vibe onboard may change 🤔🚢🥂

[Norwaylady]

Turnaround day….

At 07.30 it was time for a coffee pick up in Al Bacio. They had started the process for walk-off. 

We had some coffee on the balcony and just relaxed before it was time to go downstairs for the b2b meeting 09.00. 

 

On arrival 09.00 they called tags up to 20. 

And it was still lots of people around the ship. 

09.25 tags up to number 26

09.40 tags up to number 31

09.50 all tags called. Please leave the ship😝

 

WiFi was shut off at 09.40 for the first cruise. 

 

10.04 can mr & Mrs xxx please come to guest relations….

 

10.30 all cleared and new sea pass card 🥰

 

In our stateroom this was waiting❤️

 

 

I have just finished my walking tour. Great speed when deck is almost empty. 
Mr parked himself in a cabana box by the pool😎

 

And no it’s time for the first burger of the cruise😝

 

paperwork:

 

 

 

[Jim_Iain]

On 4/4/2023 at 1:11 PM, DaKahuna said:

 

So glad you like it.. Full disclosure @Jim_Iain got me started on them and I have not looked back.  They are even better than the ones from our local bakery.   I was sad on our December 2021 Reflection B2B when they ran out of almonds on the 2nd leg.  Fortunately we only had three more breakfast left when that happened and I managed to get by without them. 

 

 

My other favorite if you haven't tried it are the little Lemon Tarts.    Can't wait to have one.

 

I noticed they offered them on that little platter in your room

 

Edited April 6, 2023 by Jim_Iain

[Norwaylady]

8 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

 

My other favorite if you haven't tried it are the little Lemon Tarts.    Can't wait to have one.

 

I noticed they offered them on that little platter in your room

 

My favourite is lemon tart🍋🍋🍋🍋 it’s one of the cakes onboard I really enjoy. 

but I prefer the one that just lemon tart, not the style on our plate❤️ 

 

[Tee & Chilli]

I agree

lemon tarts without the meringue are the best 

[Tee & Chilli]

[Norwaylady]

I can already report, this cruise has lots of kids and younger guests🙃 

 

Holy smoke…. 

Prince & the rest the crew of Sunset Bar really works for their salary today. 

It has been packed from 12.….

 

It’s been a lazy day by the pool and Sunset for us. 

Beautiful sail-away⚓️😎 

 

We have just returned to our stateroom for a shower and downtime before we start the evening. 

 

We have not received dinner information. So it will be a surprise if we are still on select dining or if they have seated us at traditional dining 20.30….

Anyway, we will go back to the hostess that moved us…. It will be a pleasure to say: guess who’s back? Back again…. (Get the lyrics😂😂😂) 

Hopefully it will be a good location and service….. 

 

Today’s program: 

 

 

[thebutlerdidit]

“Anyway, we will go back to the hostess that moved us…. It will be a pleasure to say: guess who’s back? Back again…. (Get the lyrics😂😂😂) “

 

🤣🤣🤣

I double dog dare you to sing this to her! 

[Jim_Iain]

4 hours ago, Norwaylady said:

My favourite is lemon tart🍋🍋🍋🍋 it’s one of the cakes onboard I really enjoy. 

but I prefer the one that just lemon tart, not the style on our plate❤️ 

 

I'm same as you I like the ones without Meringue.    Just a nice small tart bite.

 

 

[Norwaylady]

We kicked off the evening in Sky lounge. (The stand-up show was not very tempting… it was a bit off last week and same person) 

 

Guess what????

Someone proposed next to us🤩💍🍾🥂❤️ 

She said YES❤️ 

Congratulations to the happy couple🥰

 

The Sil orchestra kicked off the party in Grand Foyer at 20.00

Love it when they do big band🎶🎶

 

The martini bar was packed🍸

 

Attached is the camp at sea for this sailing 

 

 

[Norwaylady]

Dinner….

Well, guess who’s back…. Back again…

 

We had not received a card in our room and no supervisor had told us what plans they made for our dinner for the second cruise. 

So we arrived at select dining on the same hostess as first night last cruise…… 

She looked at us a bit strange. She didn’t expect us…..

 

We had an assignment downstairs on late dinner. 

So we received the table number and walked down to 3-level. We are seated on table 337. 

It’s on the edge by the window, we prefer to be seated on the edges, it’s more quiet compared to the open area in the middle. 

 

You can tell that the average age is lower. It’s lots of families and small children on our neighbour tables. 

This was a “ultimate” first night slow dinner, service and syncing of staff/guests not functioning. Lots of children dinners and special request. 

We were 45.mins later out from dinner then last cruise, no coffee or sambuca for Mr. I was dying tired 😴 (you see😆 why I prefer a cruise for a more “older” crowd) 

And last weeks service was not rushed at all. So things went very slow. 

 

I will not make any big decisions on crew service, I will let them have one more dinner. 

What I can say is that Lina, our head waiter seemed on the ⚽️ when she’s working. But last night is was just to much going on for everyone….. it was on the border of headless chicken run🐣🐣🐣

Our sommelier was topping up my glass of rosé and I always have the French dry rosé…. I hate sweet wines.

First she couldn’t find a chilled bottle, so she gave me a glass of a dry Italian. 

She rushed by to top up and she filled up by the American sugar rose🙈 it’s dark red and taste 🥴nothing as a rose….

 

So hopefully it’s team playing for next evening. 

After dinner we went straight to bed😴😴😴

 

We had:

Asparagus salad 

 

Wedge salad 

 

Shrimp cocktail 

 

Onion soup 

 

Lamb

 

Seared brancino

 

ice crem

 

strawberry angel cake

[Norwaylady]

Today’s cruise compass

 

We have docked in Key West. 
We have lots of children around us😆 Some has been very angry in the morning…… screaming and crying loudly. So hopefully they cheer up during the days🤩❤️

 

 

[countess5]

20 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

 

My other favorite if you haven't tried it are the little Lemon Tarts.    Can't wait to have one.

 

I noticed they offered them on that little platter in your room

 

Looking out for the lemon tarts! 👀

 

You have to try them, as long as they are not topped off with meringue! Have to be original. 

 

Cheers! 

[countess5]

 

They are original!! 👏👏😄

 

Cheers! 

[countess5]

We old people aren’t bad to hang with! 😂

 

I’m thinking of Ralphie on our last cruise in the next cabin and Dad said to Barbie, he’s 3 years old what can I do? 😩 🙉

 

Cheers! 

[Barwick Cruiser]

1 hour ago, countess5 said:

 

They are original!! 👏👏😄

 

Cheers! 

Interesting that on your cruise the cookies selection is on a tray on the lower level of the case…Silhouette in Feb they were in jars on top of the cabinet…we went thru ALOT of the white chocolate macadamia ones 😋🤫