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I just went in to the bathroom to investigate. I can confirm it’s been washed off!! I’m a nice guy! She’s lucky to have a guy like me.

Wife just said she has seaweed on her b00b$. She wasn’t pleased when I asked for proof! Psshhhhht!!!

Photos won’t load. I’ll post them later. Few more randoms for today. I hope they’re right side up and I hope they upload. It seems to be going sloooooooow. I have a solid buzz from Playa Mia. Food was ok, actually better than expected but nothing to write home about. Drinks were cold and they hit the spot. I opted for XX all day and the wife went with strawberry margaritas. The kids enjoyed themselves as well. They did the waterslide a bunch and spent some time in the pool. I opted for more beach time and floating on my $8 Amazon float. That float has come in clutch at many cruise ports for us!! I am showered and will probably venture out for a drink or 2. We’re on the pier side of the ship but the lifeboats will block any potential pier runner action. My hope for the evening is drinks, dinner, and maybe some more Pai Gow.

Playa was a good time!

See the fat dude floating in the back ground holding 2 beers? Yours truly!

Coming up to dock in Cozumel. Looks like a virgin ship is backing in next to us. I haven’t been at this dock in many years!

Not sure why some photos are upside down.

Ice bar was cool. There was a discount with the beverage package. Not sure if it was because we have premium plus or not but it was $21 and change total. Grabbed a selfie to make fun of my kid and some other photos. Drinks were ok but experience and photo ops were worth it. Back to the casino after the ice bar. Broke even on BJ and +$14 on Pai Gow. The BJ session felt so rushed after playing full table pai gow! We like pai gow because it’s so slow. Casino tally is +$114 overall. Tomorrow is Cozumel. We booked Playa Mia through NCL. Ropes course was closed all day which was a bummer for the kids. Other bummer of the day was that the 12 year old was hanging in the basketball court and got smoked in the face with a basketball. She’s fine but it cut our evening a bit shorter than expected.

Back to the pai gow session - we only played about an hour. We have an 8:30 reservation for the ice bar. We’re looking forward to it!!

Moderno was good. It didn’t blow either of us away. We didn’t leave hungry, thats for sure. With the free at sea perk, it’s fine. Not sure it’s worth the price if we’d have paid.

Pai Gow session after dinner. +$150 for the session and +$100 overall. Lets go!

It’s go time!!

Me being a pushover continues. I purchased $39 lipstick for the 12 year old, in exchange for a few selfies. She insisted on doing “cheers” with the lipstick and my beer. I made the kissy face in an effort to make fun of her. I didn’t succeed and really only succeeded in looking like a goober. I have no shame though.

Wife is having a harder time finding the NCL groove and isn’t having as good of a time as I hoped. We still have a ways to go and I’m betting she’ll come around. She’s not miserable by any means but is having a hard time finding drinks she likes, etc. Here’s a few photos from today.

So apparently our toilet’s struggles can be remedied by opening the shower door when you flush (per the guest services call last night that the wife made). What the heck??

Wife and I are off to breakfast soon, while the kids sleep some more. Breakfast is my favorite meal and I hope it doesn’t disappoint! I’m a big dude and enjoy big breakfasts when I can get them.

I’m such a pushover. I am usually the last in bed and first up. 99.9% of the time, the first up for sure. I do this so I can walk around without being drug in another direction for the wife and kids. A bet of me time is always nice. So this morning, I’m spending my me time in the lien at Starbucks for the wife. One of those “Can you get me a blah blah blah at Starbucks, that would be awesome…..but it not, that’s ok”. I know it won’t be ok! I kid I kid. She puts up with my $h!+. She deserves a Starbucks. The fact that she didn’t hurt me for booking this cruise (story for later) makes me happy to grab her one.

View forward from the balcony. Can you hear this photo in your mind? Add in a few clicks from the shuffleboard game going on below and you nailed it!

Fun first day. We got both kids (don’t ask! It was against my will!) the arcade package. We agreed going that we’d get it for one…that didn’t hold up well. With the kids being a year and a half apart, when they have fallen in different kids club age groups, Carnival has let the younger move up so they could stick together. They act like typical kids and rarely see eye to eye at home and with us, but this has worked really well for us. They can go and come together, etc etc etc. They seem to not mind hanging out with each other in these situations. The cut off from Spash to Entourage is 13, so with boy-wonder being 13 and sister being 12, they straddled that line. NCL said she absolutely could not join him. It was frustrating, but I get it. Not complaining, just throwing it out there for anyone in similar kid situations. We ended up eating at Osheehans later in the evening and got some appetizers. They were all decent but nothing blew us away. Adequate and hit the spot at 10pm though! We turned in around 11 last night and the toilet wouldn’t flush. Don’t worry! It wasn’t me doing toilet paper research…that will come later this morning. My wife mumbled that she heard them outside the room fixing it some time during the night. I hope she’s right! It did flush when I peed in the middle of the night. More to follow later after I get moving and cleaned up!

So far, all I can say is that’s it’s different. Can’t say better, worse, or the same. We know the ins and outs of carnival so some things on NCL are a little frustrating, but only because we don’t know any better yet.

First time for us on NCL so we’re learning a lot! We’ll certainly note the superior halls on 5! At this point I don’t know back from front or up from down on this ship! It’s an adventure. Several things we like over our typical carnival cruises and several things we haven’t been fond of. I know we’ll have an awesome time no matter what though!

We had a decent dinner then hung out a bit. Kids went to the arcade and the wife and I went to the adult arcade. The wife is having a hard time finding a drink she likes. She loves Alchemy Bar on carnival but nothing here is quite in that lane. Hopefully she’ll find something she likes before long. Current gambling tally: -$50 ($25 min Pai Gow)