The Lovely Voyage

Monday, June 18th- Another Day at Sea We woke up around 8am and made our way up to the Lido Marketplace for breakfast. To our delight, there weren't any lines around 8:40 and our food was super satisfying (which is a weird way to phrase it but that's what my notes say from that morning!).  Breakfast views! After eating, we went to morning trivia where we scored two points below the winner, so we left feeling pretty good about our performance! We decided to live a lazy lifestyle this morning so after trivia, we lounged on the lanai for about an hour and enjoyed the beautiful weather and gorgeous water views. More trivia was on the agenda and we did not do well, which was a real letdown after our morning's close success. We went up to the lido to take pictures of the ship and grab a drink.  Busy day! While up there, we started listening to "Caribbean Sounds with Gerrant" but unfortunately his shift ended about 10 minutes after we sat down to listen, so we ...

June 17th, 2018- Day at Sea We enjoyed sleeping in a bit and woke up around 8:30 to get ready for our first day at sea. We looked out our balcony in the morning and noticed we were going really slowly, which was weird because we hadn't ever seen a ship move that slow during a sea day. It definitely seemed to indicate something was malfunctioning with the propulsion/engine system. As a side note about our room, 6434, the main overhead lights took a long time to turn on. It wasn't a huge deal but certainly made us think that the lights were broken a few times. The vanity lights turned on fast so we used those a lot so we didn't need to stand in the dark for ~30 seconds. As we were headed out the door to get breakfast, we found an updated shore excursion list in our mailbox. We had planned to go to the Shore Excursion desk that day to check on our Amber Cove excursion, so this was perfect that the info came to us. We noticed that our excursion was still happening (Yay!) but...

Saturday, November 11th, Sea Day (sadly our last): A tropical start to the day: Who wants to write about their last day on their favorite vacation ever? I sure don't, which is part of the reason I've procrastinated. The other reason is that I was able to crank our a lot of writing over the holidays and winter break since I work in education, but now it's back to real life and I'm having a hard time catching up. Thank goodness for notes on my phone in this awesome app. I'll give it a quick plug solely because I think it's really cool. It's called "TripRider" and it organizes basically everything you can think of for travelling! You can enter info about each traveller, have note sheets, maps, and a packing list. The trip plan is the best, where you can include how many days you're going, what you're doing each day, enter hotel and airfare info, upload PDF attachments of tickets and reservations, and estimate how much money you need for e...

Friday, November 10th, Sea Day: How do I get a Dreamscape for my house? We started off with Sea Day Brunch in the MDR and found it to be just alright. The conditions were very cramped. I'm talking like, stick my elbow out to the side and I'd be very close in someone else's personal bubble. It makes it hard to stay out of others' conversations when you're basically eating side to side while at physically different 2-top tables. The food was good but really no different than the Lido breakfast. We had brought some champagne down with us and ordered orange juice to make our own mimosas, which was a nice twist to start the morning off with. We didn't have to wait too long for our food to arrive and we're pretty quick eaters so our visit there was probably under 30 minutes total. What we lovingly call "The Willdra Special" (if you haven't read Willdra's AMAZING reviews on Cruise Critic, you're doing something wrong. She is a hundred t...