DDaley

Enjoy the Beach Club! May you not have a Bird day of Alfred Hitchcock proportions! 🥰

ahoy from coco cay!!!!!
man look at that sunrise 😍

 
we are joining oasis today… seems i cannot escape her, no matter how hard i try 😆

I guess to everyone else 110lbs of luggage for one person is totally normal 🤣😱 j/k I know I am the weird one taking less than 50lbs for 2-3wks of cruising. 
Today is travel day!!!!
I hope everything is smooth and you and J have little to none of the travel shenanigans.

Yes! 
 
I agree with DH, the shirt IS a lot, but then again, I am too.🤣

THE SHIRT!!!!! IS FABULOUS AND I WILL TOLERATE NO SLANDER OTHERWISE!!!!!

Thanks @Ampurp85 and @GregD for the warm welcomes as well! I see @asquared17told you all thanks for me as I learn to navigate. She’s the best that way. Also, I do love the Away luggage @asquared17 but you know I’m a Beis girl. You did make me check the Beis site to see what new items I can procure this BF for upcoming travel 😂. We work hard, we deserve it! 

Ah, fresh meat! 😆 Welcome @Jade. You're in good hands with @asquared17!
@Jax, sounds like the BF "deals" that are going on right now are the same as earlier deals. We aren't going to PDCC on Odyssey, but our excursions are the same price as they were on the Labor Day sale and now the "platinum and above" sale. 
 
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Gobble till you wobble!  🦃 🐔 🍗 

Hope you have a Lovely Day at Coco Cay!  🎼 🎶 🎶 

Into a day of nothing much planned. we slept in (for us) and had breakfast at Chops. it was nice to just relax and skip the buffet lines. 
 
Sunrise was spectacular. the sea is calm with breezes ruffling the surface of the little bit of swell we have. 
 
I have already been watching the flying fish from our balcony. the sea if calm enough I can sea the schools beneath the water as well as the ones skipping  across the surface. 
 
our attendant is awesome and towel animals are invading 

Sunday morning in Galveston. we had breakfast at the hotel then went wandering. Beach time down at the sea wall then down to the Strand. It's a beautiful day a d not nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. A meer 75f. even got a look at the Battleship Texas still o. the ship yard.

We took my MIL on a cruise for her 70th birthday, and while onboard, she graciously offered to watch the kids so DH and I could take one by ourselves. We happily headed to the Next Cruise office and booked a 5 day cruise just 3 months down the road... for May 2020.
We finally got to thinking about rebooking that "just the two of us" cruise this past May, and we realized we were only 9 points away from Diamond Plus. If we squeezed in a 5 day cruise in a suite this fall, we would get the extra benefits on our cruise with the kids in the spring which is an 11 day. I'm looking forward to the BOGO specialty dining since that is a longer cruise than we typically take. We're ok with a JS, so we thought why not roll the dice and see what happens with a GTY. The worst thing would be we sail in a JS, which was the plan to begin with to get the points. 
I received the Royal Up email on October 1, and the minimum bid for a Grand Suite was $75. We bid $100 pp with very low hopes of winning. I've been obsessively checking the app and website daily, sometimes more, to see our room assignment. Finally, at 15 days out, we received our room assignment today. We are  in JS 9534 which is the forward most JS on the port side. Just in case there's a chance, we raised our bid to a whopping $125 each. 🤣
It has felt weird not having a room until this close to the cruise, and I finally feel like I can start packing. Like it's official now because I know where my bag will be.
 
Here are the details:
Mimi is coming over for Thanksgiving and will bring her pup and stay until we get back. Our dogs all get along well, so Yay! We can spend the money we would have spent on boarding them on excursions instead. 
5 days on Mariner, and we will drive down to Galveston from Dallas on Black Friday. That night, we are staying at the Hilton NASA in Clear Lake. We'll make the 40ish minute drive Saturday morning, and, like always, we are parking offsite at Lighthouse.
Day 1 Embark
Day 2 Sea 
Day 3 Costa Maya
Day 4 Cozumel
Day 5 Sea
We're driving straight home on Thursday. DH will have to work Friday, and I'm teaching a class at our homeschool co-op Friday too.
We're really looking forward to this vacation. DH's work has been crazy, and I am just coming out of wedding season for my business. I had two wedding cakes last weekend, and just a couple birthday cakes before we leave. I finally got smart, and I'm not working up to the day we're leaving this time!
 

Wow I hope everyone I’ve tipped in cash just pockets it without mentioning it to Royal! This is awful.

If I remember anything from the impressive @twangster blogs that swayed me to book Alaska, he took the train easily between these two cities to board a cruise after flying to Seattle. 
Definitely recommend a wildlife or whale watching tour, the amount of whales we saw was insane. We saw tons of whales in both ISP and Sitka! In Juneau I looooved seeing (what’s left of) the Mendenhall Glacier but don’t recommend a kayak tour to see it, haha. My hands were blistered for days! 
Are you planning anything for San Francisco? I always recommend a tour of the ROCK! Amazing views from there looking back at the city and the Golden Gate, plus touring Alcatraz is interesting, too. Make sure to buy these tickets early, they always sell out if you wait till the week-of. 
 

Yep, exactly. I do this for my husband literally every time I book a cruise. I book 2-3 years out and he doesn’t need to be in the know till about 6-8 months out. I just call and get his C&A number added at a later date once he is privy to the sailing! 😆

This is the love I need in my life 😂😂😂😂 but also I want to plan it lol 

Yep, exactly. I do this for my husband literally every time I book a cruise. I book 2-3 years out and he doesn’t need to be in the know till about 6-8 months out. I just call and get his C&A number added at a later date once he is privy to the sailing! 😆

Haha I would say both! He’ll say “I’m all cruised out” then 6 months later he sees a Royal commercial and gets the craving again! I just booked a ladies cruise and he was jealous.. Ohhhh I thought you were done cruising? I’ll get another booked for us right away! He has so little vacation time I don’t wanna scare him if he were to see the full booking list, hahaha. Surely our Celebrity cruise next fall will require a few non-paid days of absence, oooops. 

I have a surprise cruise for my husband's birthday January 2027. He will know later.

According to him or according to you? 🤣

Yep, exactly. I do this for my husband literally every time I book a cruise. I book 2-3 years out and he doesn’t need to be in the know till about 6-8 months out. I just call and get his C&A number added at a later date once he is privy to the sailing! 😆

Yep, exactly. I do this for my husband literally every time I book a cruise. I book 2-3 years out and he doesn’t need to be in the know till about 6-8 months out. I just call and get his C&A number added at a later date once he is privy to the sailing! 😆

Digging into the payloads loaded in the cruise planner, it's only the one graphql query that's returning anything spanish, and yet there's nothing to suggest why. It's not like the browser is calling that API saying "return results in spanish"

Same thing is happening to me too. Must be an RC problem

I’d agree with Cybertek because it only seems to be selected things that are showing this way. Wondering how long it will take RC to fix it? 

Same issues for me, but mine is displaying some menu options in French.  It also will not let me make reservations or buy any packages.  Same issues for the website and the app.  English is my selected language.
It is not a caching or cookie issue.  It seems to be an issue on RC's end.