Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[grapau27]

12 minutes ago, sgmn said:

Here are a few pics of the ports of our Greek and Malta cruise.

 

The port for Olympia. We've been here before so just stayed in port and wandered through the lovely little port area 

 

RHODES we spend the day exploring the city but didn't have enough time to do it justice 

 

Santorini,  beautiful day, took the ferry to Oia

 

Mykonos,  took the ferry to Delos and then spent time in Mykonos 

 

Athens, took the bus into the center, saw the changing of the guards and as very hot and we've been to Athens before we went to the cool acropolis museum 

 

Malta- did a wonderful cruise excursion,  called three cities and harbour cruise,  wonderful day, our best port

Awesome photos Sue.

I'm delighted you both had a fantastic cruise and meeting Dani @dani negreanu too was the icing on the cake.

Graham.

 

[sgmn]

17 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

Awesome photos Sue.

I'm delighted you both had a fantastic cruise and meeting Dani @dani negreanu too was the icing on the cake.

Graham.

 

Thanks Graham, it definitely was 

My worse thing I brought home was too much weight 😫  on a strict diet now 

Edited June 25, 2022 by sgmn

[grapau27]

5 minutes ago, sgmn said:

Thanks Graham, it definitely was 

My worse thing I brought home was too much weight 😫  on a strict diet now 

That is something we always bring back home with us after a holiday ☹️

[A&L_Ont]

8 hours ago, h20skibum said:

You can tell he likes lots of chocolate chips, just like Susan

 

 

No raisins.  You got to smart cookies right there. 😁

 

[A&L_Ont]

1 hour ago, sgmn said:

Sorry to hear about Owens injury.  I missed out on two weeks CC so missed this. Hope he's not in any pain, the young heal fast, though annoying to happen right at the beginning of the school holidays 

All things considered he is doing well. He seems a lot happier now having the lighter cast on but is missing baseball and won’t be able to swim in the pool. His spirits have improved though. 
 

You photos look amazing. It certainly looks like you had a great time, as well as the pleasure of meeting Dani. 

[h20skibum]

@sgmn Sue, your photos look fantastic.  It looks like you had great weather for your cruise.

[h20skibum]

58 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

No raisins.  You got to smart cookies right there. 😁

 

Never raisins in our house. My wife is allergic to them.  That’s why we always had trouble with the apple pie on Royal.  She is so glad they went to the apple blossom deserts, which is what she orders almost every night.. No raisins in them. 

[A&L_Ont]

25 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Never raisins in our house. My wife is allergic to them.  That’s why we always had trouble with the apple pie on Royal.  She is so glad they went to the apple blossom deserts, which is what she orders almost every night.. No raisins in them. 

I’m sorry to hear she is allergic to them, but thankfully she now has an option while on the ship.
 

I have a question; is the allergy in all form of grapes or is it something to do with the process of the raisin being made?  

[Keksie]

9 hours ago, h20skibum said:

It seems like our days are so filled, it is hard to keep up here.  This morning, I was out doing some prep work for the First weekend of summer party tomorrow.  
 

Our grandson was busy helping make some cookies.  You can tell he likes lots of chocolate chips, just like Susan

 

After making some small ones

 

 

He decided he wanted to make a really big one. 
 

 

Baking out of the way, we decided to grab some lunch and eat on the boat

 

It was a beautiful day, with very little boat traffic

 

 

This was the maiden voyage for this season, and everything was running smoothly for a boat that we have now had for 38 years.  
 

 

Finished off our evening as we do most nights.  Drinks in the hot tub while streaming something.  Tonight it was just my grandson and me, so we watched the first five episodes of Man vs Bee, the new series on Netflix with Rowan Atkinson. If you like his humor it is worth a watch.  We were both laughing. 

 

 

That looks like a wonderful day

[grapau27]

Just had lunch in our garden Room.

[Keksie]

@sgmn from the pictures it looks fabulous.

[Keksie]

Annabel was taking a brief nap last night.

[Ourusualbeach]

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

All things considered he is doing well. He seems a lot happier now having the lighter cast on but is missing baseball and won’t be able to swim in the pool. His spirits have improved though.

Not the summer any of you envisioned but nice to see things are at least looking better with no surgery.

[bobmacliberty]

11 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

Thinking of doing Sea Dog’s Old Fashioned first.

 

That was my choice.  I liked it.

[grapau27]

20 minutes ago, Keksie said:

Annabel was taking a brief nap last night.

Annabel looks so cute.

[bobmacliberty]

3 hours ago, sgmn said:

The port for Olympia. We've been here before so just stayed in port and wandered through the lovely little port area 

 

 

Looks like you had a great cruise, and you took some awesome photos.  This photo in particular just says Greece to me.

[Arzeena]

26 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

Just had lunch in our garden Room.

I love your garden room and garden! I enjoy the pictures!

And the lunch always look so good!😁

[Arzeena]

25 minutes ago, Keksie said:

Annabel was taking a brief nap last night.

She is absolutely adorable. She is being a ball of fur!😁 Just too cute for words!

[grapau27]

1 minute ago, Arzeena said:

I love your garden room and garden! I enjoy the pictures!

And the lunch always look so good!😁

Thank you Arzeena for your nice words.

Graham.

[Lionesss]

Some one recently posted they were away a few days and had a lot of catching up to do.

 

Daily I usually try to read my threads at least twice, but lately with getting around to organizing and cleaning up around here as well as summer upkeep, I find myself way behind on these threads.

 

But man, when you have pages upon pages to read after just one day, it is amazing.

 

We share so  much here, and I truly enjoy it.

 

I  may not always respond to the beautiful pictures or family events, but I try to.

I love how people take the time to share their lives.

 

I do want to make a few comments. though.

 

@A&L_Ont  So happy that Owen does not need surgery.  Great news!

 

Love all the kitty pictures, soon for us, very soon.

We do not want to adopt till after our August cruise.

 

Now a  question directed to:

 

@Ozark_Kid

I know you recently did a live thread and posted from Alaska in May.

It was awesome.

Now question.

There is currently a thread live from Alaska with few post from the OP.

Now he could be having tons of fun, and utilizing the drink package.....

But

When you sailed was there difficulty in posting on CC, with WIFI or whatever it is called?

 

Just curious.

 

Take care all!!!!!!

[grapau27]

2 minutes ago, Lionesss said:

Some one recently posted they were away a few days and had a lot of catching up to do.

 

Daily I usually try to read my threads at least twice, but lately with getting around to organizing and cleaning up around here as well as summer upkeep, I find myself way behind on these threads.

 

But man, when you have pages upon pages to read after just one day, it is amazing.

 

We share so  much here, and I truly enjoy it.

 

I  may not always respond to the beautiful pictures or family events, but I try to.

I love how people take the time to share their lives.

 

I do want to make a few comments. though.

 

@A&L_Ont  So happy that Owen does not need surgery.  Great news!

 

Love all the kitty pictures, soon for us, very soon.

We do not want to adopt till after our August cruise.

 

Now a  question directed to:

 

@Ozark_Kid

I know you recently did a live thread and posted from Alaska in May.

It was awesome.

Now question.

There is currently a thread live from Alaska with few post from the OP.

Now he could be having tons of fun, and utilizing the drink package.....

But

When you sailed was there difficulty in posting on CC, with WIFI or whatever it is called?

 

Just curious.

 

Take care all!!!!!!

 

[Jimbo]

2 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

All things considered he is doing well. He seems a lot happier now having the lighter cast on but is missing baseball and won’t be able to swim in the pool. His spirits have improved though. 
 

You photos look amazing. It certainly looks like you had a great time, as well as the pleasure of meeting Dani. 

Why can't Owen go in the Pool. Just use one of these and he should be fine.

 

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[Ozark_Kid]

30 minutes ago, Lionesss said:

When you sailed was there difficulty in posting on CC, with WIFI or whatever it is called?

The ship internet was not good for us on Ovation. I have heard that ships cruising Alaska receive their internet off different satellite than in the Caribbean and that makes a difference. I did my heavy posting such as loading pics and videos while near port.  I was able to use 5g cellular and it would work 1 or 2 hours after leaving port while sitting on the balcony.   The only exception for me was Canada.   Sharon could use her iPhone but I did not have any luck with my Samsung. 

 

We will be passing near by your place today!  We are leaving Indianapolis right now and headed to Lakeside on Marblehead. 

[akcruz]

@sgmn great pictures, have been to Athens but none of the other ports, definitely moves thus up on my list, some day.  Glad to hear you had a good cruise, we missed you and Dani.

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, A&L_Ont said:

I have a question; is the allergy in all form of grapes or is it something to do with the process of the raisin being made?

Anything grape based, so that means I have to suffer through drinking all the wine we bring onboard.  
 

It is a tough job, but someone has to do it!

Edited June 25, 2022 by h20skibum