Susie

Good Morning !!!
Suite lounge and I think I win the prize LOL ?

Remember that the Diamond Lounge will also have a continental breakfast every morning so if you forget to order or just want to pick up something quick, you can stop by there and pick up something too.  They will have juice and specialty coffees as well (assuming the coffee machine is working !).

Everyone gets free continental breakfast service..but the hot items such as eggs and bacon have the $7.95 +18% per order charge.  The room categories of Grand Suites and above get the order charge waived..and Pinnacles too it seems!

Only Suites and Pinnies get complimentary room service.

Good Morning !!!
Suite lounge and I think I win the prize LOL ?

Oh dear!!! Even better than the night before and that lighting shot was amazing also. Such a treat for us, thanks @twangster 

Oh dear!!! Even better than the night before and that lighting shot was amazing also. Such a treat for us, thanks @twangster 

You make me hungry. Goodnight ? 

After a second round at Hiro, we headed back to our cabin where we found this waiting for us...

...if you can’t sail Star class, you might as well try to re-create it ?
This was the dessert that we took “to go” from Jamie’s earlier ?
Settling in now with dessert, tea, and some Lucifer.  Goodnight all!

Thanks for the pictures. No doubt !! Look better than my Greek salad (my dinner for today). 74 days to go we will be on Symphony. Can't wait.

Diamond Lounge appetizers for @Susie

Wanted to note that it was the exact same as the suite lounge apps.

Lucky you to catch this event. It is definitely a stunning Milky way.  Hope I see it up on the sky one day. I guess that another bucket list. Thanks for the pictures.

Celebrity and Royal make the news on CBS SUNDAY MORNING !!
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sail-away-new-technology-in-cruise-ship-design/

 

I've switched to watching news from the BBC and F24 (France) as well as Asia. ALL the "main stream" news outlets in the US are nothing but biased political reporting, celebrity news and little else. One day I saw reports about unrest and violence in 6 different countries in Africa, hundreds of deaths, all in one day and all of which was ignored by the media here. But if a Kardashian farts there will be live reports from the scene.

It really varied from casual wear to evening dresses and tuxes.  Basically do what you're comfortable with.  We like getting dressed up because we have to wear uniforms at work and never get the chance to look good, lol.

I think Fox Canceled it but Netflix pick up the show and make season 4 and season 5. I love the show but not want to pay Netflix to see the new season though.

From the linked article, I found this quote rather amusing (emphasis added):
My translation of this from corporate-weasel-speak to English -- "We're stunned at all these suckers paying a crazy premium to sail the same ship as last year, just to visit a glorified water park where we can charge them even more money. Guess it's time to raise prices for Coco Cay sailings another 30%!"
? 

Lemon Drop time !!     ? Woot Woot !!!!

Current dinner view from CK.

Lemon Drop time !!     ? Woot Woot !!!!

El Loco Fresh is better enjoyed this way...

#stuffedagain

@Lovetocruise2002 Thank you so much for the pictures. Love to see Symphony offer smoke salmon, Yogurt parfait,  fruit cup and pastries. Hubby and I love smoke salmon so that good enough for me. one thing was missing for smoke salmon is capers, I wish they have that.  However, not sure I can pass omelette at JR though. Really tough choices. LOL

Day 3: At sea
”Each day we draft a new movement in our Symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?” - Ken Poirot
Woke up this morning to another beautiful, and sunny day. Another day at sea and again we have no real plans. 
I decided to change it up a bit this morning. Headed to the suite lounge for a visit and to make my tea. The continental breakfast offerings there this morning are the same as yesterday. 
I decided against CK breakfast, shocker I know, and headed down to Deck 4 to check out the Diamond for @Susie. This is what I found. 




Very similar choices to the Suite lounge except the tea bags are a different brand. 
I also found tonight’s MDR menu for anyone who might be interested.

Finding nothing interesting here, I decided not to stay.

Just confirmed with the CK hostess here.  On SY, they make reservations for JS guests one day at a time ?

Dinner in CK tonight is the same menu as the rest of the fleet. For the menu, see my Anthem (March 2018) blog as I forgot to take a pic of it tonight. I also skipped the food pics as it was the same as I had Night 2 on the most recent Anthem cruise. You can see that one too for food pics. 
Anyway, our night was more eventful than the day. 
After dinner we went to watch Hiro. Wow!  Fantastic show!!  If we took the spinning guy from Harmony out of the equation, then Hiro is most definitely our favourite!  The dancing on this show was on a whole other level!  High energy all 50 mins. Great choreography and loved the theme. For those who mentioned that they did not care for Hiro as much compared to Oasis and Allure due to less diving and more theatrics, we prefer that and Hiro did not disappoint. We might go back to see it again later this week. 


After the show we wandered aimlessly and started missing our GC friends.  Craving a lavender tonic, we ended up at the Trellis Bar for one.  

After that we sat in Central Park to enjoy some guitar melodies. Love this part of the ship at night. 

A while later, the guitarist took a break and we wandered into Dazzles.  We usually never visit this venue. It didn’t last long as we soon realized why we never visit this venue.
Moving on we wandered to the Promenade and ended up in the Schooner Bar. The pianist this sailing, Andy C is quite good. Not Billy Pando, but I still really enjoyed him, more than the guy on Anthem recently.  We ended off the night here and decided to call it a night when young kids started jumping on the couches.