A beautification participation sea day

A beautification participation sea day Today we are at sea. I, as always, was up bright and early to assure I have prime pick of the chairs. Once in the pool deck, I noticed the entire port side of the pool deck 11 & 12 was blocked off. Um excuse me, whoever is in charge of ship maintenance probs should have check the GD itinerary and yesterday when we all had to get off said ship to be in CocoCay because that's where lunch was, would have been the most ideal time for a pool deck reno. Literally, you could only get to & from the pool deck from the starboard side of the ship, using the electric rotating door that can sometimes be a challenge for 1 person much less hundreds all wanting to escape from the noise & fumes all at once. I did speak to a pool patrol man & he said it will be like this for the week. Maybe this wouldn't be a bad thing if this was a, a port heavy itinerary, and b, not a full sailing! C'mon Royal!!! We spent the day making lemon drops out of lemons & made the most of our pool day. Since the bartenders were so abundant with half the decks closed service was great! Turns out moving to sit in the H2O zone isn't a terrible idea as its not nearly as crowed as the main section, and for those of us who just need to cool off here & there the water fountains are really fun. We went down to our cabin, showered & dressed totes cas for some ship shopping. The Michael Kors store onboard just debuted the fall line of hand bags & accessories. I denied myself but they are oh so pretty! We met up with our table mates Jim & Ann for a pint at the pub & some serious people watching. We spilt for readying for dinner & then at 8pm, it happened. I made it. I was officially sitting on deck 3. The cruise ship equivalent to the big kids table. Let me explain. You see we were seated in deck 4, again, originally. Right on the railing which is great to see all the happenings but it's deck 4. And it wasn't in the section of our most favorite head waiter, Jacob Abraham of India I'm talking about you. Jacob has been in a word, incredible this entire trip. His service to us has been nothing short of that. He finds us in the WJ & anywhere he is to make sure we want for nothing. Anyway he asked us yesterday if we were interested in moving to his section on deck 3. um DUH! For those of you not familiar, deck 3 is where the captain sits, THE CAPTAIN!!!!! I practically at his table if you go into the MDR see his table & look 5 table right there I am! 'Ello cap'n!!! Following dinner it was photo sesh time! The ones with the blank background. Royals Next Top Model? Probably not but wicked fun. I strongly recommend it. You never know what kind of fun portrait will come out of it & it's something we all don't necessarily make time for save for our senior pictures. Off the the battle of the sexes, the boys won. I won't say they cheated so much as the ladies never stood a chance with a team member being stumped by 'name something with a shell'. The boys earned it & well the ladies, it's fine really. They won last week. Fave moment from the boys, name romantic movies, one came up & said Titanic. The entire audience gasped & it was WICKED quiet. The activities manager: 'did you just say the 'T' word on a cruise ship?!? They lost all their points. After the battle it was deck under the stars. With half the deck closed...still...it was awkward & crowded. Not a great turnout ended rather early actually. Tomorrow we're back on US soil which means cell service!!! in St. Thomas.