TravelBluebird

well I haven’t seen them open yet—good question I will try to find out!

From the Behind the Fun tour, we learned that ALL shows on Jubilee are now being performed in the theaters they are meant to be performed in—Dear Future Husband and Soulbound are Jubilee shows (not Center Stage) and the Rio/Carnivale show will be tonight at Center Stage. So I wanted to clear that up since I wasn’t sure. Also learned that the choreographer for Hairspray choreographed Dear Future Husband (and it shows)! A fun fact for my theater people.

One couple from our group did the Behind The Fun tour. They really loved it! I’ve done one of those tours many years ago and think I would like to do it on an Excel class ship. You get to see behind the scenes on many aspects of the ship—the engineering room, crew areas, laundry, some restaurants, backstage at the Jubilee theater (and you get to meet some of the entertainers) etc etc. You learn a ton (they did!) It’s a small tour, only 9 people. Absolutely no photography. If you are interested when you sail you have to sign up right away on boarding at the excursions desk; it sells out fast. They also got a neat “behind the fun” baseball cap each and some yummy sweets sent up to their room.

Tropical weather is so mecurial. Now its (lighty) raining. Tropical squall. 🤷‍♀️

I have achieved a connected balcony with my friends next door! I was going to go upstairs and relax on the shaded part of Lido, but finally there was no wind on my balcony, and it is sunny and beautiful out here. And hot! If any of you were around for my first Excel class ship LIVE! you will remember how much this white awning used to really bother me right underneath the ocean suite balconies on a good portion of level nine I guess I’m just used to them now cause I barely see it anymore!

@TheLargeFamily Sorry—meant to say middle of MARCH felt like lots of kids. You see why I don’t normally drink lots of alcohol on a cruise ship? 😂

No it doesn’t—last year I was on Mardi Gras in the middle of October and that definitely felt like LOTS of kids

Not me personally, but four members of our group have had various massages and facials to have a very, very good deep tissue massage.

The Big Aristotle! YUM Line went fast

The siren song of The Big Chicken has called for lunch!

At the WAVE morning show! 800 kids aboard just FYI We have Gabby and Steph (led my side dancing at party last night) with Kyndall. 3 Americans!

Right? Cruises are like a box of chocolates—you never know what you are going to get! 😂 I’m going with the group’s flow—I get to cruise so often, only fair to go with the Group Gestalt!

Still windy out on the balcony, but not so bad that I can’t sit out here with the coffee. Although that last gust may make me change my mind! Need a little alone time; love my crowd of people on this ship, but sometimes you just need to recharge the energy bank a little bit with some quiet.

At 9am my husband wakes me up and says “Military Appreciation is at 9:30!” I’m like…9:30??? I DO love to go in honor of my Dad, but I was too tired. He’s taking some of our newbies who will really enjoy it though. But I did roll over and go back to sleep (last sea day till the end of the cruise!) SO…I am sitting here with my room service coffee and a bagel and about to go sit out on my balcony to enjoy the rest of the coffee. Funny thing happened…I got my order (only took 20 minutes!) but when I went to pour the coffee, they sent up an empty coffee pot by mistake. No biggie, I called down and they brought me a full pot right up. They were super apologetic, but hey, things happen!

Ended the evening with the White Night party, the casino and pizza! Whew that Kyndall Fire is like the energizer bunny! Got QUITE the workout! Fun, even taught us some new line dances. 6 of the 9 of us went to the party and danced! Casino not very good to me. Will try again tomorrow. Tried to eat my pizza on my balcony but WOW is it windy. Even more than earlier today. Came immediately back inside in defeat and had my pizza in my sitting room of the Ocean Suite. It was a perfect first sea day! Getting the hang of traveling with a large group. See you all tomorrow!

Really enjoyed Soulbound! Costumes, atmosphere, good spooky fun. This cast may be the most talented cast I’ve seen on a Carnival ship, and I’ve seen a whole lot of talented casts the past 3 years on the Excel class ships. It wasn’t just the above expectations singing and dancing, also the joy with which the cast performed.

New show Soulbound!

Dinner was great! Rudi’s has been exceptional at all 3 ships we’ve dined there. I had the tuna with kimchi sauce and watermelon, the Ciaopinno and the broiled lobster tails (which were huge!). Finished with bread pudding.

Rudi’s Seagrill for Firnsl night! Wine is 50% off and we’ve all ordered 4 courses!

We’ve been at Dr Ink’s since 5 in LIVE with the SeaHorse Glide. On my 2nd one and kinda drunk and about to cry during the beautiful Alleluia rendition by our violinists

No lunch! Going to pig out at Rudi’s Seagrill in 1/2 hour!

Some Bingo photos, the boys at the Havana Bar and the Thriller dance class in the Havana Bar then that everyone but our two oldest guys danced in.

LOL clearly I meant PRIZES not PRICES on the last post. That is what happens when you dictate your post instead of type it, when you can’t see your keyboard out on the serenity deck.