jam19872016

Off to the casino for just a little while. Don't plan on staying long hoping fate is kind to me.

Dinner was great again tonight. I don't have tonight's menu because it is identical to the night 1 menu from last week. I am super excited for 8 new to me dinnet menus on this 16 day sailing. For my starter I ordered the cured salmon. First main was the chicken parmesean. The portion was huge and it was piping hot, I think this was as good as the cucina pay version. I also got a large portion of the salmon but it wasn't great tonight. It was overcooked. Dry and starting to burn a little even. For dessert I enjoyed the tiramisu.

Usually they burger is so good but it was overdone and dry on here. Thanks 😁

And we are caught back up. Dinner is on a 20-30 minute wait tonight. I'm sitting in the waiting area outside the MDR waiting for my app to buzz. New stuart this week is off to a rocky start. There was hair on the nightstand next to my bed. I checked the rest of the cabin after that and it appears to be the only oversight. Then when we asked for ice he told us we would need to call room service. We politely mentioned we got it last week and he said he would try. He did return with the ice bucket. It's still early and the big test will be if we get our PM service as requested 😆.

Heading out to dinner there was a knock knock knock on the door. Special delivery for b2b guests. Yay I was starting to think with so many b2b they didn't have the budget to give out the champagne. Sunset on the way to dinner.

Another brief internet outage. Rewind about 45 minutes and we were pulling away. My view is now ocean view. Water is getting choppy already. Can't feel it but can see it this close to the water.

Going to the spa raffle again to try to win some spa loot for my mom.

The weather must know we are heading back to Florida. It is warm out today almost hot even. The midship roof is open. Also the country music overhead has been replaced with carnivals standard playlist of 70s and 80s rock and pop.

I'll give that a try next time. I was actually doing some research for some place to try poutine and I read something that made a lot of sense. Ordering poutine in Victoria is like ordering a Philly cheese steak in Seattle. Thy might serve it, but it's not necessarily authentic. So I abandoned that idea but I still want to try it just have to wait till I hit eastern Canada. I can't wait for that char sui chicken to come around again 😋.

After we got settled into our new room we went up the the buffet for some lunch. Chopsticks and Lido lunch menu. My lunch.

Lost internet for a while. Went down to the room and our card wasn't in the box so defeated we turned around then I realized we were already wearing our cards duh 🙄. We got an Oceanview this week. Port view right now.

Took some convincing but got my nice new card. I'll probably wait to use my free dinner until Celebration and see if I can use it at Rudi's. Did muster now checking on the room. New signs are posted.

I just want the shiny white card lol. I'm about to follow up now I'm just not ready to be told to mask up.

My mom and I both moved up levels this cruise. I did not expect either to be correct so I'm a little worried hers is platinum and mine is still platinum. I have exactly 200 days and I have checked and double checked And it says platinum is 75-199 and diamond starts at 200, not 201. Guest services said they can check after the new voyage is loaded.

They just announced the housekeeping department has informed them the rooms were not ready. Saved me a trip to go check lol.

Zero count achieved. They are now calling our names and we are free to go. Easiest b2b ever. They say our rooms are ready but I somehow doubt that is true but will check it out once my name is called..

Nice! I like this here's hoping this is the "new normal."

Just informed cbp will not require us to walk off the ship and back on. Once they check us back in we are free to go 😁

In the theater for our b2b meeting. They had champagne and mimosas waiting for us and they our checking us in now for our next sailing.

Good morning. I'm up earlier than I need to be. Repacked this morning and I'm gonna go grab some frozen yogurt for breakfast. We meet in the theater at 9am to checkin for our next cruise. They seem to be pretty efficient with this whole moving cabins thing since so many ppl lost their cabins. They have delivered us numbered luggage tags and our new cabin number is written on the back.

Off to bed now. Turnaround day in the morning.

I had pretty low expectations for Canada. I know this is just a technical stop to check a box on a legal form. I expected a tourist center with some tourist traps and. It much else. My very low expectations were way way too high. There was one shop open with a line that quite literally wrapped around the entire length of the store. I heard town was a 30 minute walk but nothing was open but a couple bars. I don't knownof that was accurate but I didn't bother just turned around and returned to the ship. Back onboard now and probably in the room for the night although I may go out for a late night snack. I ate light at dinner in case I found something i wanted to try in port.

After dinner I went around the ship for my platinum goodies. I missed out on the casino fun play because when I went this afternoon the line was all the way down the Promenade because it was closing at 4. If it had been real money I probably would have waited but the Spirit is set up to give you casino credit. Pass. Got my other goodies the water was a challenge because most of the bars were closed per Canadian regulation but I eventually got it.

Tonight's dinner menu. For my starter I ordered the chicken tenders. Next I had the braised short ribs. For dessert I had the baked alaska. The baked alaska has shrunk but I still enjoyed another great dinner.

The ocean is very calm as we approach Canada. Canadian sunset. From my window table I can see the sun has dropped below the mountains.