LIVE- The World's Longest Trip Report (Luminosa 4/13 - 5/4)

[EngIceDave]

2 hours ago, b8nkr said:

Hello! When you have a minute would you mind looking at the roulette table in the casino and seeing if it’s a double green or triple green 0? Thank you and loving your review!

 

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Haven't seen a triple, but I'll look

[EngIceDave]

1. Hat of the day thanks to Fox News

2. How many grown men does to take to operate a child's toy

3. Off the cliff

4. Let's do the time warp again

5. Went back to the well and got more casino water

6. I have been in Florida my whole life, sailed Bahamas and Caribbean waters many times and I can't explain it, but the waves and seas in the South Pacific are different. They roll different, looks different. Not in color, in movement.

 

[b8nkr]

10 minutes ago, EngIceDave said:

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Haven't seen a triple, but I'll look

Thanks. Someone had mentioned the roulette tables had 3 greens instead of two. 
 

[EngIceDave]

We now have an onboard positive

In quarantine for 5 days

[SDPadreFan]

18 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

Apparently we had an earthquake nearby and underwater

 

No one noticed

 

Clocks go forward an hour tonight

 

There is a really cool (free) app called MyShake. It's run by Cal State Berkley. I have it on my Samsung S10 and I get alerts (silent) whenever there is an earthquake somewhere in the world above about a 4.8 Really educational to see where all the earthquakes are happening.  Shows all of them but the smaller ones don't rate a specific alert. The app shows your earthquake as a 6.7

 

In the last week - there was your earthquake at 6.7, a 7.0 near Java Indonesia, and a 6.2 near Vancouver Island in Canada. At least those were the biggies.

[EngIceDave]

Stolen from the FB page, us crossing the International Date Line

Credit - Terri Godwin Davis 

 

[EngIceDave]

Morning everyone.....I have no idea what day it is now....LOL

Where am i?

 

LOL

 

[lancerTXST]

Great review! Curious on how do they do the playlist productions on a 22 day sailing? Sailing on her in June I am curious which specific shows the Luminosa will eventually offer this summer.  It may be hard to figure out until she leaves Seattle for the first time.

 

Also, how was dining at the steakhouse with an opening down into the lido marketplace? Wondering if its noisier and takes away from the dining experience.

[kwokpot]

4 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

Morning everyone.....I have no idea what day it is now....LOL

Where am i?

 

LOL

 

You're on a roll in the casino! Hopefully my husband will be just as lucky when we're on the ship in September for the trip back to Brisbane. 

[EngIceDave]

8 hours ago, lancerTXST said:

Also, how was dining at the steakhouse with an opening down into the lido marketplace? Wondering if its noisier and takes away from the dining experience.

 

You hear the music from the bar on deck 2 coming up 

[EngIceDave]

19 hours ago, b8nkr said:

Thanks. Someone had mentioned the roulette tables had 3 greens instead of two. 
 

Both are 00

 

 

[lesters]

Can you confirm what is available in the shower - in pictures I have noticed only one dispenser.  Is it body wash or shampoo?  I usually pack some shampoo anyway but curious which one it is so that I am sure to have enough for the duration of our trip 

 

Thanks! 

[EngIceDave]

4 hours ago, lesters said:

Can you confirm what is available in the shower - in pictures I have noticed only one dispenser.  Is it body wash or shampoo?  I usually pack some shampoo anyway but curious which one it is so that I am sure to have enough for the duration of our trip 

 

Thanks! 

One body/shampoo combo

 

Was going to cover this today....On Celebration 2 months ago when we were on it, the body wash was a blue that smelled like Axe body wash and some Orange shampoo that smelled....orangey

 

This is a single product and the scent is very neutral. Nor male or female

[EngIceDave]

Midday update.....EVERYONE IS CONFUSED ON WHAT DAY IT IS OR ISN'T.....LOL

 

Tomorrow is Tahiti followed by Moorea.....shore leave two days in a row....wow!

 

Seems to me, folks are starting to slow down a bit. Excitement and newness is wearing off and everyone is settling in.

 

Bingo today.....everyone was civil, no fist fights

 

 

Went back to the well and took on some more water....

 

 

It's been rocky, but I wouldn't say rough.

 

Seas here roll longer. In Caribbean, they're smaller waves, more individual. In South Pacific, you can see a rolls of waves the entire length of the horizon.

 

[EngIceDave]

I asked the CD if there will be an Equator Crossing Ceremony and he said "yes"

It'll be in hub app when at that time

[Down-Unders]

2 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

Midday update.....EVERYONE IS CONFUSED ON WHAT DAY IT IS OR ISN'T.....LOL

 

Tomorrow is Tahiti followed by Moorea.....shore leave two days in a row....wow!

 

Seems to me, folks are starting to slow down a bit. Excitement and newness is wearing off and everyone is settling in.

 

Bingo today.....everyone was civil, no fist fights

 

 

Went back to the well and took on some more water....

 

 

It's been rocky, but I wouldn't say rough.

 

Seas here roll longer. In Caribbean, they're smaller waves, more individual. In South Pacific, you can see a rolls of waves the entire length of the horizon.

 

Wait to you see the price of liquor in Tahiti think it maybe a scream instead of a wow!

[EngIceDave]

[EngIceDave]

CD Jacky says Equator crossing ceremony will be on the 25th. 

[mschancey]

What? No shrimp cocktail?

[EngIceDave]

Couple notes, they're having some issues with the interior public area air conditioning. Lido is a sauna. We saw condensation drops in Steakhouse and it's just generally warm. Our cabin is fine for us, but we try to keep curtains closed when not in room.

 

Best photo in Pixels so far

 

 

The MDR was a total disaster tonight. The Hub app is totally jacked up due to the date line crossing. So some could check in, MANY could not, resulting in the mess you see below.

 

 

 

[CarnivalShips480]

What time is it for you? Here on the east coast it is almost 7:30. You are behind us now?

[mkcurran]

13 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

I asked the CD if there will be an Equator Crossing Ceremony and he said "yes"

It'll be in hub app when at that time

 

5 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

CD Jacky says Equator crossing ceremony will be on the 25th. 

You kissing the fish?

[lancerTXST]

19 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

 

You hear the music from the bar on deck 2 coming up 

 

Thanks, but not sure this makes sense? The steakhouse is on deck 10?

[SDPadreFan]

14 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

I asked the CD if there will be an Equator Crossing Ceremony and he said "yes"

It'll be in hub app when at that time

 

6 hours ago, EngIceDave said:

CD Jacky says Equator crossing ceremony will be on the 25th. 

So just a little historical perspective from a retired old, crusty Navy Chief. Traditionally - in order to go through a "Crossing The Line" ceremony, you had to be crossing from the hemisphere you were born in to the hemisphere you were crossing to. For American sailors (& Merchant Marine as well) - that meant crossing from North to South and not the other way around. As an example, when we headed down to Tasmania in 1976 (I was 20 years old then), we held a Crossing The Line ceremony (all day fun), crossing from North to South (but later coming back north, there was no additional ceremony for new sailors who had just joined the ship in Tasmania). On that day, I went from being a slimy pollywog to a Trusty Shellback. Lots of fun back in the good old non-sterile, non-woke, non-political days. Got to crawl thru the shillelagh gauntlet of Trusty Shellback's armed appropriately (ours were made from a 2' piece of fire hose). A visit to the Royal Barber, the Royal Dentist, the Royal Doctor, the Royal Executioner, ... and finally the Royal Baby (crawling all the way as slimy pollywogs must do). If we got dirty along the way (everyone did of course) then we got to take a bath in a large trough filled with lots of yucky looking stuff (all fresh food though) squirming around in it with other pollywogs until we were deemed clean. Finally, permission was granted to visit King Neptune on his Royal Throne for inspection. If we passed (of course some didn't and got to repeat the process), the next stop was the Royal Scribe, to be logged in as a Trusty Shellback (I still have my embossed Certificate that I got after that day in 1976. The last step was to go to the cleaning area on the flight deck (this was on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVAN-65) and strip down to my birthday suit (to get hosed off with a fire hose) before making my way down to berthing to get fully cleaned up and dressed again. Then back up on the roof (flight deck) where another area was set up as a Steel Beach Picnic with food, etc.

 

So the trick to get through the shillelagh gauntlet relatively unscathed while crawling was to firmly plant your head against your shipmate's behind who was directly in front of you and keep it there, all through the long gauntlet. The golden rule being that no Trusty Shellback could strike any where near your head and the buttocks was the only allowable area to strike. So you had a head to rear, head to rear, ... procession all the way across the flight deck. All of our clothing was worn in reverse order and inside out and on backwards (so tighty whities were on the outside - and on backwards).

 

A few years later in my career, I got to participate as a Trusty Shellback that time, and it was a lot more fun being on that side.

 

So enjoy your day (but you'll still be a pollywog, technically speaking).

Edited April 20, 2023 by SDPadreFan

[kwokpot]

4 hours ago, lancerTXST said:

 

Thanks, but not sure this makes sense? The steakhouse is on deck 10?

Yes, even on legacy Carnival Spirit Class ships the steakhouse is on deck 10.