Rare Norwaylady Posted April 4 Author #326 Share Posted April 4 Today’s culinary surprise! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #327 Share Posted April 5 I went downstairs and got ready for dinner. Mr was finished 18.00. So we went downstairs to Al Bacio for a coffee before the show. Tonight’s show is Katerina Rossa, violin 🎻 player. We have seen her before onboard. She played a potpourri of Vivaldi, Queen, James Bond and Adele. The orchestra was really shining tonight🙌🏻🎻🙌🏻 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #328 Share Posted April 5 The new house band was playing in Grand Foyer before dinner. They are starting to be house warm😂😜💙 Tonight’s menu We had garden salad, shrimp cocktail, escargot and seafood orzo. Food tasted good. Dessert Lava for me and crème brûlée for Mr😁 The Lava cake… I must say it! Last week ist was great 👍🏻 this week it was SO good 😊 we have to go back to 2018ish for last time it was spot on like this. (It was adevils good dessert until then) But after 2020 the lava cake has gone downhill to really cool and not the famous dessert! Love this🩷 After dinner we stopped by Al Bacio to pick up some water. They were warming up to Finish the Song I Grand Foyer. This game show is totally pending on the contestants. We stayed upstairs by the railing to watch them. It was a great group, so it turned into a 💥😂🎶🤣 Then it was game over & good night 💤 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #329 Share Posted April 5 We are invited to a helipad Sail-in on Barbados 🇧🇧 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #330 Share Posted April 5 CruiseCompass Day 5, Barbados 🇧🇧 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #331 Share Posted April 5 Rise & shine from the ocean! We are not docking until 11.00 today in Barbados 🇧🇧 Mr needs to speak live with colleagues, so he needs to be up and running for office time 07.00. AKA, have his computer in bed and a t-shirt on😜🤭😂 ( you must add +6h for Norway/european 🕰️ ) I have a planned teams meeting at 08.30. Need to go over some details in a project for work. I went for a power walk from 0720 to 08.10. Mr was finished on meeting when I arrived. So he wanted breakfast. My meeting was a bit delayed, so we wanted to go downstairs to MDR🤪🤪 The line was long and it was very busy. So we ended up in Tuscan for captains club breakfast. I had a quick breakfast before I left for my meeting. Mr went to the sail-in. I was occupied by my meeting🤪 Mr said it was not crowded at all. After my meeting and Mr’s adventure on the helipad we wanted a little snack before the snorkelling 🤿 tour. So we went downstairs to Al Bacio😇 a full house😝 Everyone was waiting for clearance of the ship. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPGolf55 Posted April 5 #332 Share Posted April 5 I've enjoyed your posts. I, too, will work during our cruise on the Equinox. I have a few questions: How has the internet been, any buffering or long delays as each page loads? Do you make VOIP calls over the internet or use the ship's phone service? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #333 Share Posted April 5 4 hours ago, JPGolf55 said: I've enjoyed your posts. I, too, will work during our cruise on the Equinox. I have a few questions: How has the internet been, any buffering or long delays as each page loads? Do you make VOIP calls over the internet or use the ship's phone service? TIA premium WiFi has worked like a clock. I have talked on FaceTime video calls, no problems. I have used vpn for work, no problems. Teams meting, no problems. Mr needed to download heavy duty from work, no problems. we have a router in our stateroom. so it’s no problem on the balcony for coverage. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #334 Share Posted April 5 Mr had a “home-alone party” on the helipad before arrival😎 He needs to work on his selfie skills😜 Our snorkelling 🤿 tour had meeting time 12.30 on the pier. Remember to allow enough time to walk the pier and thru the shopping area. We left the ship/stateroom 12.05 and was on the meeting point 12.15. We needed to take a bus to the other side of the harbour to board our boat for the day. It was a floating dock😂🤿 So keep your stuff in a dry bag😝😅⚓️ The tour company Tiami has several different boats. So they had 2 groups onboard 2 “floating” docks and a third group on a catamaran boat. So plenty of people were snorkelling today😝🏖️🤿 It was a bumpy ride to our 2 locations, the shipwreck and turtle 🐢 bay. Snorkelling was heavy waves today and strong wind. So we survived but for others, it was a struggle💙. They provided mask, snorkel 🤿 and an inflatable vest. It was mandatory to wear the vest. No fins😟 (and in this current and wave, that’s really not the best idea) The view was not the best, it was okay. But really not on our top ten list. It was free bar after the snorkelling. After the snorkelling 🤿 we went for a beach hog. We had 45.minutes. Nice beach and relaxing place. Then it was time for our return trip back to the ship. We arrived back on the ship 16.30. I will upload the GoPro later for a reel. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #335 Share Posted April 5 Today’s canapés 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 5 Author #336 Share Posted April 5 After returning home, we needed to shower off and just take it easy for a while. At 18.35 they asked if following passengers are onboard… So someone is uncounted or missing on the ship. All onboard was 18.30. Tonight’s show is Chaeza - a tribute to Whitney Houston 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare hcat Posted April 5 #337 Share Posted April 5 3 minutes ago, Norwaylady said: Today’s canapés not very generous! esp for 2 people... That's why we bring our own snacks and crackers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare hcat Posted April 5 #338 Share Posted April 5 Just now, Norwaylady said: After returning home, we needed to shower off and just take it easy for a while. At 18.35 they asked if following passengers are onboard… So someone is uncounted or missing on the ship. All onboard was 18.30. Tonight’s show is Chaeza - a tribute to Whitney Houston looks like it could be a nice program 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #339 Share Posted April 6 Well, this woke up the theatre😂🎶🎶 Great show and orchestra did a excellent job. Whitney tribute show💙🙌🏻🎶 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggieq Posted April 6 #340 Share Posted April 6 8 hours ago, Norwaylady said: Rise & shine from the ocean! We are not docking until 11.00 today in Barbados 🇧🇧 Mr needs to speak live with colleagues, so he needs to be up and running for office time 07.00. AKA, have his computer in bed and a t-shirt on😜🤭😂 ( you must add +6h for Norway/european 🕰️ ) I have a planned teams meeting at 08.30. Need to go over some details in a project for work. I went for a power walk from 0720 to 08.10. Mr was finished on meeting when I arrived. So he wanted breakfast. My meeting was a bit delayed, so we wanted to go downstairs to MDR🤪🤪 The line was long and it was very busy. So we ended up in Tuscan for captains club breakfast. I had a quick breakfast before I left for my meeting. Mr went to the sail-in. I was occupied by my meeting🤪 Mr said it was not crowded at all. After my meeting and Mr’s adventure on the helipad we wanted a little snack before the snorkelling 🤿 tour. So we went downstairs to Al Bacio😇 a full house😝 Everyone was waiting for clearance of the ship. @Norwaylady is MR using a vpn for work? Wondering if I will now have success in doing so during an upcoming Norwegian fjords and arctic circle cruise on rccl. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisetonowhere10 Posted April 6 #341 Share Posted April 6 11 hours ago, hcat said: not very generous! esp for 2 people... That's why we bring our own snacks and crackers! I was thinking the same thing…have two bites of chip and guacamole and you are done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #342 Share Posted April 6 Mr snagged a 🍸 from the Martini flight 20.00. Dinner Our French Canadians was long gone after day 1.😂🙌🏻 Good for us, since their English was not good and my French is not the best and Mr has nada skills in French 🇫🇷😂😂😂 But we received a new Canadian table from Toronto the next evening! They are super friendly and funny🙌🏻🥰 So very happy with the change of table mates👍🏻 Today’s menu: So this is one of the menu sets I was looking for last week🧐🤭 We had spring rolls, the salad, pork schnitzel and the duck. It was good to excellent. The spring roll was great and tasty. The salad was fresh and delicious for the eyes. But coloured black olives 🫒🙄 they belong on pizza, not for my salad🤭 they taste nothing like the real olives…. And choice of dressing was very pale in flavour. A good balsamic or a little bit of pesto would have made it tasty😇 The duck was delicious and perfect 🤩 Mr was super happy for the schnitzel😋 Dessert One off limits to me 🍍🍍🍍 And the rest is just not my thing🙃 But ice cream 🍦 that’s always a winner! Chocolate and banana-rum. (That banana-rum scoop was 😋😋😋 tonight) Then it was off to bedtime 🥱 It was a message from shore excursion on the phone. They called us 20.46 to tell us that our meeting time was moved forward from 08.30 to 08.15!!! Be there on time please😝 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #343 Share Posted April 6 CruiseCompass Day 6 St Lucia 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #344 Share Posted April 6 Good morning! St Lucia calling⚓️ We are downstairs in MDR waiting for our breakfast. I said to Mr, no way Hose, I’m eating OV this morning…. I will have a proper breakfast before I go hiking 🥾 It was empty when we arrived 07.30 when they opened. Menu We have ordered our breakfast and waiting for it to arrive. We are doing this tour: I should be worried🫣🤔😳 When I took out the last tour tickets in the envelope…. It was tiny tiny letter folded: Saying it’s a 2-2.5h drive before we start walking AND it’s a winding road🤪🤪 The map looks promising for that😝 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisetonowhere10 Posted April 6 #345 Share Posted April 6 1 minute ago, Norwaylady said: Good morning! St Lucia calling⚓️ We are downstairs in MDR waiting for our breakfast. I said to Mr, no way Hose, I’m eating OV this morning…. I will have a proper breakfast before I go hiking 🥾 It was empty when we arrived 07.30 when they opened. Menu We have ordered our breakfast and waiting for it to arrive. We are doing this tour: I should be worried🫣🤔😳 When I took out the last tour tickets in the envelope…. It was tiny tiny letter folded: Saying it’s a 2-2.5h drive before we start walking AND it’s a winding road🤪🤪 The map looks promising for that😝 Oh yuck! That’s always my concern with tours. As an active middle aged (yikes, can’t believe I am saying that) person I don’t like the idea of sitting on a tour bus instead of doing something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 81Zoomie Posted April 6 #346 Share Posted April 6 On 4/5/2024 at 5:40 AM, Norwaylady said: We are invited to a helipad Sail-in on Barbados 🇧🇧 No helipad on E Class 🥺 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depplep Posted April 6 #347 Share Posted April 6 I can't wait for your pictures of St. Lucia. We haven't been there since the early 00's. Have a great day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #348 Share Posted April 6 18 minutes ago, 81Zoomie said: No helipad on E Class 🥺 I know🙄 it’s one thing we really don’t like and there are no Sky Lounge/forward public spaces front view🫤 There are other elements we love. The jogging track is perfect 🤩 And the 4-MDR works great. Seems like you have a great time onboard🥰 CD Giuseppe is great 👍🏻 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Norwaylady Posted April 6 Author #349 Share Posted April 6 15 minutes ago, depplep said: I can't wait for your pictures of St. Lucia. We haven't been there since the early 00's. Have a great day! Thank you! We have visited here in 2014 and 2016😎 We can see in port that it has developed more. More taller buildings and construction going on🤓 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare countess5 Posted April 6 #350 Share Posted April 6 2 hours ago, Norwaylady said: Good morning! St Lucia calling⚓️ We are downstairs in MDR waiting for our breakfast. I said to Mr, no way Hose, I’m eating OV this morning…. I will have a proper breakfast before I go hiking 🥾 It was empty when we arrived 07.30 when they opened. Menu We have ordered our breakfast and waiting for it to arrive. We are doing this tour: I should be worried🫣🤔😳 When I took out the last tour tickets in the envelope…. It was tiny tiny letter folded: Saying it’s a 2-2.5h drive before we start walking AND it’s a winding road🤪🤪 The map looks promising for that😝 We were in St Lucia last year and took a land tour, it was fantastic but it was a long drive and we were up to 250 curves in the road before we stopped counting! This year when we were in St Lucia we took a catamaran to the Pitons! Much better! 😂 Cheers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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