DDaley

Dinner in the CK was very good.  The steak was as tender as any I have ever eaten BUT as I feared would happen, I was still waaaytooo full from lunch and couldn’t finish it.  In retrospect, I should have asked for a later dining time but I fell back on old habits and booked an early slot.  Now I am miserably full…even hours after we ate.  Luckily I brought along some of @asquared17’s charcoal pills.  Hopefully that will help.  If not, good old fashioned Rolaids will do the trick.  
The casino is a madhouse, which frankly, comes as no surprise to me. I’m sure there are lots of folks who, like us, are here on a casino comp.  I’m even for night #1 and Dan is up a little.  
Dan is feverishly using his newly-found skill of identifying every plant in Central Park with @DDaley’s iPhone trick.  I’m pretty sure I will soon learn to hate @DDaley for this.  JK   It isn’t flawless though.  It misidentified one of our schefflera (umbrella plant) as a grapefruit tree !  😂😵  Too funny.
We haven’t witnessed any shenanigans so far.  I think I must inadvertently repel shenanigan-ites as I never seem to witness anything of interest or amusement.  I will try and be more observant.  
Tomorrow is a “sea day” which is a hoot when you think about where we actually go on a 4 day cruise to Nassau/PDCC.  We’re really just putting around, wasting time. Oh well…I prefer sea days anyway so even a manufactured sea day beats a day in Nassau.
 
 

If you use an iPhone it has a nice plant lookup feature on any photo you take of plants/trees/flowers. You just swipe up from the bottom of the image to find this “Look up - plant” button. According to Siri, this pic I took is of a Bird Cherry, or Prunus padus! 😂

No. Two women were on a Carnival cruise that stopped at Freeport. They claimed they were drugged and raped on a resort beach and that authorities did nothing for them, so they just went back to the ship.

The resort says they have video evidence that shows that didn't happen and authorities claim they boarded the ship to offer rape kits.

oh no, the socks were not the issue at all!! the socked feet propped up on the chair in front like at the OB/GYN was my call out. 
i, too, wear socks on the plane 🥰 on longer haul flights. 
haha that would have been funny but alas. it was the night we FINALLY sailed away from cococay and the closet doors sounded like they were coming down on us. between the constant breaking noise and the howling from the balcony door (the weather stripping needed replacing), i was awake from 3am on. legit couldn’t sleep 😞  and also because i had to follow up three days later a few other issues that had been lodged that sleepless night morning. i think they felt bad.
coincidentally, that was the night i started feeling a twinge in my throat that later manifested in who knows what now 😬😂

Uh oh, that sock lady is me!! I always wear flip flops or Rothy’s flats on planes so then when I get on board I put on socks so my feet don't freeze off. Usually I just tuck one foot under my butt and one rests on top of the corresponding shoe. Sue me!! 
PS you really got FCC for that one night when people were loud on their balcony and stopped when you light-signaled them? I have never complained but that happens to us on literally every Royal cruise we’ve been on. How much do they offer you?? I should be complaining at GS more often!! 😂

Tiny smalls are the best things in life 

They've invested a ton into TV advertising, including during sporting events, over the past several months. They probably decided the repetition was better than a one-off. Super Bowl ads were going for $7 million for 30 seconds. Strategically, Super Bowl ads are more conducive to high-production, specialized, one-off ads vs. what Royal tends to do. 
Don't know about you, but their recent marketing seems to be doing a good job of creating awareness. A lot of non-cruisers have been mentioning Icon whereas I don't remember that ever being the case with a new Royal ship. 
 

Because he's still arguably the most popular athlete in the world and especially in Miami

Oh funny, I always upload the same two pictures for my husband and I and we’ve never had to retake them at the terminal, and we’ve sailed from LA, Miami, Tampa, Puerto Rico and Seattle. 
I particularly like this because my photo is from at leeeeast 8 years ago and I look fantastic every time we’re scanned on and off the ship. 😂

The past two years Royal has bought one 30 second ad during the Super Bowl. This year we have the release of Icon that already has some manufactured 30 second spots.
How many ads might we see this year??? 0? 1?  2?  .....More????
30 seconds of time during this years broadcast costs $7 million and few dispute the cost for the value of the exposure received--for the right ad.
 
Predictions?

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Another genie surprise when we got back from dinner: 

 
TV was singing Happy Birthday

good morning from the caribbean sea!!! 

same!!!!! 💚
YAY!! welcome to the cup clip club!! (say THAT 10 times fast 😂)
yes!!!!!
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!
i love it!!!!!!!
busted!!! but i am very honest about my luggage needs 😂😆🤣
THANK YOU for this reaction!!! i, too, was like…. what has actually happened here???
J and i both were unsure. 

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

Definitely ordering a cup clip, I bought my mom one for her patio for Christmas not realizing I should be using it myself on vacations! 
PS. YOU GUYS I am in resume review for a senior designer at my agency and some guy’s portfolio has the Royal App, every Royal email I’ve ever received, the little heart safety icon thing from right after Covid, a Coco Cay map.. just wow. Never reviewed someones portfolio before where I’ve actually experienced the product!! I had to share with people who would care!!! 😂

I tell you cruising is the source it'll change  your life,  swear to god. (A little point break homage there.) It amazes me how anyone could be ambivalent to cruising. I get stoked just reading someone else’s cruise experience let alone when I’m aboard. It’s just the best. 

Someone start a gofundme for mikes cup clip.  

goodbye labadee!