TheHobbys

Afternoon snack, already dug into it before the picture Oreo cheesecake

Dinner at Jamie's

Day 5 - St Maarten This cruise is going by way too fast. I mean, it's supposed to be a 9 nighter ... should feel like a long vacation, right. Guess when your cruising time flies faster than you imagine. Oh well, it's a lot of fun and we still have a few more days. It was an early morning, since we forgot to cancel our standing coffee order. Oh well, we got the rest of the family up and dressed and headed up to CK. I said we got dressed, I didn't say they were in a good excited mood. Anyways, ordered up some waffles and French toast and bacon. Yeah, should have ordered 2 of the French toasts because it was basically one slice of bread ... the waffles, yeah skip those. Had a weird texture and didn't taste that good. We docked around noon and hooked up with Yen to get escorted off the ship for our excursion. I can make her laugh every time, though sometimes I wonder if it's the polite laugh ... humm... Our excursion was the zipline and ropes course... the bus drive was only about 20 or so minutes with about 45 of us. We got there, geared up and took off on the course. We tried to make our way towards the front since we move a little faster than some. Took maybe about 45 minutes to do the whole thing, then waited on the bus for everyone else to finish. I'll have to work on the pictures later and dig out some decent ones. The ride back was short and they even dropped us off near the main strip so we could shop for a few. The boys took off in search of The Yoda Guy and the girls went shopping. Last time here we bought his book which he signed and he signed it again for this yeah. Nothing else major happening, so we met back up and got back on the ship. We did have some of those strawberries waiting on us ... yes, put that as a standing order. Of to Jamie's tonight for dinner so watch for pictures. The sun had already set, so I wasn't able to scope it ... maybe another night I'll scope the setting sun. Of course, I have to wait for @Lovetocruise2002 to get home from work lol.

For those curious about the beach in St Maarten (I still can't spell it right every time), here's a few pics. You can rent those chairs and go beach lounge. There's the ship's in the background. The walk isn't bad but there is a ferry I think is around 5 bucks a person. The bar below is a cool place to stop and chill. I have a few pictures of our zipline that I'll post later.

Here's the rest of the crew. We have Carrie, Brielle and Jake. All tagging along.

Ok, so guess it's time to meet the Hobby family This is your blog host, John. You have been hanging out with this weirdo. Yes, I'm also the one behind the periscopes... hope yall are enjoying. This picture comes fun the Loterie Treetop Adventure. It's a ropes course with some ziplines on St. Marteen. It was our second time doing it and is alot of fun.

Random pictures of the game room near the teen center... Seaplex... on deck 15

Dinner at izumi tonight. It was ok, nothing that made us want to do it again.

Aerosmith tribute band was not bad ... little loud for the space. Lighting was all blue thus the pictures little funny

Robots make mistakes also ... maybe it's drunk and tipped it glass over lol

The bottles at the top have a half shot measure at the base ther robot dispenses... it does it twice if needing a full shot

Snackin before doing the escape game with Sorrento pizza

Random pictures Rock climbing Bumper cars had a long line ... our turn isn't for another day or so IFly and Flo Rider

If you are in a big suite or are in SC, you get daily food stuff delivered to your room. We had to tell Yen to scale this down to a single plate. We can't eat all the stuff they bring.

I'll have to skip my nightly filet, since we are planning for Izumis tonight. Might have to grab one for lunch. Lol Let's see ... 9 night cruise, can I make it to 9 fillets ....

Day 4 - At Sea After dinner, we went and saw The Gift. Ok, so it may be confusing but the music and production was kind cool. Some of the shows we have seen didn't make sense but the music made up for it at times. Not sure we would do it again, but kinda cool for a one time gig. We did sneak out when the cast started their bows. The last time it took us a little to get the crowd to funnel out before we could. Milling about for a little bit, we ended up at the 270 for a virtual concert. Not what we expected but could have been cool if there wasd a different band. We only hung out for about 20 minutes before getting bored and went wandering. The Brass and Bock had some nice looking snacks, cause you know ... it was time to eat again. There was a dude in there playing live music and singing which was better than the virtual concert, at least we thought so. We ordered up some fried pickles and pretzel bites. The guy who took our order didn't understand the SC and brought us a bill for about 10 bucks. He stood the waiting for me to sign it. Told him he got it wrong and we don't have to pay and he might want to grab the manager. He seemed confused but left to go inquire. Few minutes later he came back with a 0 balance bill and apologized. Shortly thereafter, we had our snacks. Pickle spears were good but didn't care for the pretzel sticks. We wandered around some more and found our way back to the casino. Hopefully, this night would be nice to us ... yeah, we were wrong lol. No additional funds for my retirement, sigh. Called it an early night just after 12. Our son was tired and made it home befor us and was watching TV. Our daughter was still out roaming with friends. She showed up about 1, which was her curfew... lucky for her lol. We tried to sleep in but the body aches from the wave beating woke us up. Time to ... guess what .... go eat.

For me, yes the do

Virtual concert in the 270

Sure thing, I'll be on the lookout for those intruders ..... sorry, other cruisers. Lol

Day 3 - Bermuda First, let me say .... omg getting old sucks. My mind says 'hell ya we can do this' .... then my body goes #wtf. 6:45 ... phone rings. Now, before yall go and get all worked up, it was actually legit. The past two mornings we have had our soy lattes and a strawberry banana smoothie delivered at 7. See, we just thought we would be awake by then. Well the first morning they knocked and knocked then rang the door bell (yeah, we roll like that ... gotta have a door bell). This time, they called us before to make sure we were awake. Tomorrow, yeah ... let's delay that stuff till about 9. If we get up earlier, I'll go hunt down coffee. We had arranged with Yen to get off by 930. Since we had to all be back by 3. This should give us plenty of time to snorkel at horseshoe bay and make a run to Hamilton. Yen escorted us all the way off the ship and to the shuttles. We would have been happy to find the shuttles, but let her spoil us. The shuttles were $7 per person one way. Not even realizing I should have brought plenty of cash, I was lucky I had some left in my wallet. I do have 'secret' money hidden in my wallet for emergencies ... don't you? Lol The shuttle ride is packed with close to 26ish folks. Glad I put on extra deodorant and made my son put extra on. The roads are narrow, glad I wasn't driving. Seeing that makes me realize to NOT do one of those mowped scooter tours. We made it to horseshoe bay in about 20 minutes. It was pretty crowded. We meandered up a rock cliff, past a sign that said don't do it ... but all those other people were ... ok, so me and my daughter decided to scramble up there for a quick picture. Like I said, it was crowded. Looking out I was expecting to see calm or semi calm water ... nope, big old crashing waves. Well crap, there goes the snorkeling plan. Yeah, horseshoe bay .... don't try and snorkel. My son and I acted his age, he's 12 ... put our flippers and masks on and ran out there. Three waves later we lose a flipper.... stupid wave. Luckily, they float so we found it and I ran them back to our towels. Oh, yeah, um, I forgot to mention ... the water was COLD ... yeah, that was unexpected. Once you try and slowly get used to it, a wave comes and breaks and laughs at you. Now your cold and wet. Then another wave comes and knocks you back. It was actually fun jumping waves. I was surprised by how much grass there was. It wasn't seaweed, but rather some type of scratchy grass. We had a lot of fun but had to be careful. There was a pretty strong current that was pulling back out. There were a couple of people that got to far out and the lifeguards had to go get them. After getting hammered by the waves for a couple hours, we were all 'beat' lol. Yeah, no Hamilton run .... another shuttle ride back to the ship and back on board by 1. The boys claimed the showers first, while the girls took off to hunt down lunch. Oh yeah, we brought a lot of sand back ... and grass in our pockets. We ran down to JRs to grab a burger and shake, but they don't open till 2. I wasn't waiting 30 more minutes, so we snuck into CK. My BH was already there snacking on a salad so we joined her. I got a really good burger while my son ordered a pasta that he liked. The adults retired to the room and the kids went to go meet yo with new found friends. A nice nap was just what we needed. But, 2 hours later we woke up and realized just how mean those waves were......ooowww Guess what, it's time...... to eat...... again. Back to CK for another filet. Cruise totals: filets .... 3

Yes, at least for the Gift. Maybe the SC people know better and gave up the seats for them. Lol

After taking a beating by the waves at horseshoe bay, an afternoon snack, courtesy of JRs, before my afternoon nap. Oh, already had a burger and fries at CK. Btw .. we have made good friends with Austin our dedicated server we adopted. He takes amazing care of us when he sees us come in. I need to recover before talking about our little trip. #where'stheadvil

There is a cafe back by the 270 theater

Breakfast