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Here she is in Miami.
The new pano staterooms circled. 

We ae booked on the 5/5 sailing also. Would love to hear about the upgrades.

There's a decent contingency from the #RCPeriscopers.live group going on the Adventure 5/5 repo cruise from San Juan to Bayonne.  Make sure you scope!

Ps apparently we need to buy the photo package... Look at these adorable proofs! 
My little one LOVED Ifly! 

On the other side of that, I'm actually quite happy to be going in a couple weeks. A big part of San Juan's economy is tourism, and I'm happy to go there and spend money. Old San Juan and major tourist areas have largely bounced back, it's the areas outside the cities and in the suburbs and towns that still appear to be lacking the power and need the most assistance in rebuilding.

Couldn't agree more.  Going to Puerto Rico isn't hindering their progress, it is helping it.  
Of course this incident is only adding to the issues the island faces, but it's expected that power will be restored from this plant by this evening.

Here's the news story if anyone is interested. 
Explosion cuts power in Puerto Rico
https://search.app.goo.gl/RFWk
Shared from my Google feed
I agree with @Matt. Travel is immensely important to their economy and one of the best ways to help them recover. 

BREAKING: Families in northern Puerto Rico are in the dark again five months after Hurricane Maria, this time after an explosion ripped through a main power substation near San Juan.

Thank you! 

OpenAire's head office is based in my hometown, I could practically visit them LOL. 
Here's the write-up on their website for reference. 

Day 2 was a sea day.  We were heading for Labadee, which will be the first port of call for us.
 
We slept past breakfast so we decided to go down to Central Park and get a beef on weck from the Park Cafe.  This is usually a stop we make numerous times during a cruise but b/c we had so many places to eat to choose from we only made it to the Cafe once.  Hard to believe for us !  The beef on weck was excellent and I am SOOOOO happy to report that they have ditched the nasty gravy that they were using on the roast beef sandwiches last year when we were on Allure and gone back to basics with au jus !  It was really delicious.  They had just ruined the beef on weck with that gravy.  HOORAY !!  Dan kept saying that he was going to hit the hot dog place down on Boardwalk but we never did.  We just had too many choices.  Not always a good thing, I guess.
 
We played in the casino for a while, went back to the room and enjoyed the balcony and at 6:00 it was time for our dinner at Wonderland. You may have already read my review of Wonderland so I won't drone on here.  It was horrible.  Too weird for us.  WAAAYTOO long and just generally, not good. In fairness, I must say that the service was excellent.  That poor dear girl did all she could to try and salvage the dreadful meal but it was hopeless.  Just not our thing, I guess.  We started out with 6 but by the time the meal was done, only 2 remained.  Our Genies both dropped by to see how it was going (I suspect that they had varying degrees of satisfaction with this restaurant in the past - just speculating, here).  We had planned to go back to our room to watch the Aqua Theater show but we got caught up at the casino (who's surprised ??) and never made it.  The stay at the casino was somewhat prolonged by the fact that I hit 2 straight flushes in about 30 minutes' time at the Ultimate Texas Holdem table.  WOOHOO !!!  Those are pretty rare to begin with, but to hit 2 that close together....even the dealer said he'd never seen that before.  Needless to say, Rupert was forever (on that cruise anyway) my favorite dealer !!
 
Stayed out WAAAYTOOO late even knowing that tomorrow was a port day.  This was the night of the infamous pizza-delivery-to-the casino incident.  I was playing at a table somewhere when I noticed a server going through the casino with 3 pizzas stacked in his hand and thought to myself "that's very odd.  I don't think I can ever recall seeing pizza being delivered to anyone in the casino before...".  I thought nothing more of it until the next morning when someone spilled the beans that it had been our buddies, drunk as skunks in the casino, who had called their Genie (bless her sweet heart) and had pizza delivered to them in the casino.  I'm sure there was a swarm of them somewhere drinking, smoking and doing whatever drunks do in a casino at 2:00 in the morning.  ...and yes, I can report to you that I scolded them mercilessly about abusing their Genie privilege.  I'm sure it went in one ear and out the other.  Absolutely shameless.
 
Edit:  Who's surprised ?  I forgot something !  UGH.  Day 2 was the day of the CC Meet and Mingle and Cabin Crawl.  The M&M was at 10:00 in Dazzles (we ate lunch at the Cafe after the M&M).  Typical M&M.  We didn't win anything AGAIN !  At 4:00 was the cabin crawl for which I had been the coordinator.  It was my first time doing anything like this.  Everyone met in our cabin (8330) at 4:00 where our Genie and we had arranged a nice surprise.  We had told the Genie that we expected 15 - 20 people.  Reyno had ordered 4 bottles of sparkling wine and 3 meat platters (and bread) from Jamie's.  They had brought 20 champagne glasses, plates, napkins the whole shebang !  I think we ended up with 16 so the amount we had ordered was perfect.  All but 1 bottle of wine was consumed and all 3 of the meat platters were used.  Then we proceeded to the rest of the cabins that were being shared on the cabin crawl and we ended up at the boys' Sky Loft (1724) where their Genie had arranged a similar end to our wonderful cabin crawl.  They had red and white wine and cheese and fruit trays - again with glasses, plates and napkins.
 
So we ended up paying about $85 for the 4 bottles of sparkling wine (not bad) and all of the food was complimentary.  I'm sure their bill in 1724 was very similar.
Day 2.pdf

Well, this isn't going to be live...it's been over, going on 2 weeks now...but I thought I would jot down a few notes about my recent Harmony cruise.
 
We were a group of 6.  2 Star Class Suites and 1 inside cabin.
 
This was our first (but definitely NOT our last) Star Class Suite.  Our Genie was Reyno (Reyno is the "face" of the Genie program.  If you have seen any brochures of the Star Class Program, he is the one in all of the photos).  We were in a 2 BR Aqua Theater Suite (8330).  2 of our friends were in a Sky Loft Suite (1724); their Genie was Alexandra.  Our last 2 friends were in an inside cabin and I have to say....they were enthusiastically included in all of the activities that our Genies set up for us.  Yes, they were presented a bill for the meals that they ate with us, but never once were they not invited to come along, no matter what we were doing.  I am very grateful to the Genies for this.  They could easily have excluded them, as they were not in a Star Class Suite (or ANY suite, for that matter).  When we had reserved seats for shows, there were always 6 seats covered with the red drape that was synonymous with Star Class reserved seating.  
 
Probably our biggest surprise, and greatest joy, was the way that our 2 Genies coordinated the entire cruise.  We were all completely comfortable with calling either Genie to make a request and that request was always extended to include all 6 of us (unless we indicated otherwise).  Reyno and Alex could not be more different.  Alex is a reserved, all-business, graceful and elegant lady.  Reyno is a loud, cutesie, gregarious loose cannon (but SOOO much fun !!) but they made the consummate team for making everything absolutely perfect.  Well...nearly perfect.  There were only a few places where the program seemed to fall short...which I will discuss later.
 
Biggest surprise ?  The bed !  OMG, the king sized Duxiana mattress was the most comfortable bed I have EVER slept in.  It was heavenly.
 
Biggest disappointment ?  The cruise was only 7 nights and it just FLEW by - more quickly than any other cruise I have taken.
 
 

if you werent so awesome and helpful I'd probably resent you :P 

On formal night I'd suggest more than flip flops.  But, I know some heels, and the like, can be very fancy and formal looking, but at the same time be considered flip flops/sandals.  Not sure that makes sense, but what I'm getting at is...blingy whatevers should be ok.  They don't want "pool clothes", or the "I don't give a ****" look in the MDR, that's what the Windjammer is for.
However, as @Matt has mentioned in many podcasts, and I've experienced in my own cruising, some shopping for new cruise-wear is a must before each cruise ?
 

Thanks for sharing this link.  I like to think that live blog should provide a good overview of what to expect.
In short, it's a wonderful cruise on a fabulous ship.

The February 2017 RCB group cruise sailed a nine-night Southern Caribbean itinerary on Navigator from Miami to Labadee and the ABC islands. Matt kept a terrific live blog of his family's journey, you can start reading it here: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2017/02/14/navigator-of-the-seas-2017-live-blog-cruise-preview :) 

personally i think you would sail in anything lol i await your live blog from inside a submarine  

The hallway and those two inside cabins will buffer most sound from the gym.  I'd sail in one of these cabins.  Besides they will be brand new.  Nothing like a new cabin.

I've heard all about your infamous wine glass. ???
 

But is your glass half full or half empty ?

Fake news. :) You can buy a bottle of wine on board (MDR for example), take it with you and leave it in your stateroom...opened.
Your stateroom is not a public area.
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/charge-corkage-fee
 

Your stateroom attendant can provide one for free. You're only charged the corkage fee if you bring it to a bar or restaurant to have it opened there.

Correct.  I've never tried to bring a bottle of my own wine to dinner but as I understand it that is when a corkage fees applies. 
I have carried a bottle of wine to a quiet spot on the ship, sat at a table and played cards or just talked without any one stopping and asking for a corkage fee.  This when I cruise with family or friends.  Sitting at a table by yourself, talking to yourself with two glasses and a bottle of wine when solo tends to garner attention.  

Thanks for confirming, probably 25% is max discount for this package then. Better than nothing! 

Yes, by the glass.  I have shatterproof stemless wine glasses (plastic) that I pack as well.
Often I'll have a glass of wine I've bought on board and re-use that glass, filled in my cabin then carried around.  
I bring one of those small TSA approved 2oz shampoo type travel sized containers filled with dish soap to wash my glasses and personal water bottle I also bring.  
If I am going on or near the pool deck I'm careful to use plastic only.  A broken glass on the pool deck or in a hot tub is a serious problem.  You can ask the pool bar for a plastic wine glass sometimes.  

The only times I see it discounted is if you purchase the Soda and Voom wifi combo package.