MO & LO on the go!

Well we finally got time to walk around the ship and take pictures!
Starting with the diamond lounge

This is an outside seating area for the diamond lounge overlooking the basketball court.  It’s awesome they have a special area outside on this ship!
This is what area above over looks and at this moment there was a Zumba class going on there!

Here are some pool deck pictures.  Notice the one side is closed...out suspicion is because we are doing some rocking today.




The arcade

This is a mesmerizing machine that has moving golf balls and just constantly keeps doing stuff.  So much fun to watch

Of course Johnny Rockets

This is the computer area with an opening in the middle looking down to the library

 

The community board in the library where you can post any meeting or meetup you are looking for.  Looks like a few people were looking for game players

 
Here where we are going after lunch!  NEXT CRUISE!  Never miss that on a cruise! ?

And here are several promenade pictures.  Notice the one area has Valentine decorations!









And lastly the casino

This is the floor entering the casino.  Pretty cool 3D

 
and a quick shot of the rougher seas

Ok that’s it for now but we will have some more a bit later!  Tonight is formal night (as expected on Valentines Day) and lobster ? night!  My favorite night of the entire cruise for dinner!!!
We are going to go walk around and film some of the ship now.  See y’all soon!

Quick morning post on this First of two sea days.  We went to the windjammer for breakfast and saw this happened sometime last night!

i looked at it and can’t tell what caused it to shatter.  We have never seen that before on a ship!  Good thing dry dock is coming very soon!
 
EDIT: so apparently we haven’t been very observant!  The broken window happened a few months ago!  We just noticed it this morning for some reason even though we are here everyday!  Hahaha oooppss!

We finally made it to the happy hour in the diamond lounge!  First alcohol drinks on the ship of the cruise....only took 7 days!

So our day in Curacao is ending.  We are relaxing a bit before shower and getting ready for dinner.  Again, today was hato caves and mambo beach.  The caves were neat but it’s really a once and done thing.  I would say of all the things we did on this cruise we both rate it at the bottom (but we did some really great stuff).  
 

I do not know why it keeps uploading us upside down!!!  I tried reloading the image in several times with no luck so...sorry ...you will have to stand on your head to see it right! ?
After the caves we continued the island tour and ended at Mambo Beach!


This was very nice.  Small little area for swimming and hanging out.  We all got one of the lounge chairs you see!  Nice little 1.5 hour swim and chill out time!  When we were done here we got a continued tour back to the ship.  
 
Once at the ship we dropped our stuff off and walked to the city.  This was VERY nice!  One of the best ports so far in regards to walking distance stuff!


Of course we checked out the floating bridge and even watched it open and close.  Pretty neat to see

 

Again I don’t understand why all the pictures of us upload upside down!!!!  UGH!
So during our shopping we tried some blue Curacao liquor and chocolate Curacao liquor.  Chocolate wins HANDS DOWN!  We bought both though because the bottle are cool!  Along with a sampler pack of all of the bottles because they just look cool!  Probably won’t really drink all of it, except for the chocolate!  I forgot to take pictures before the ship took them from us.  I’ll take some either at home or when we are in Miami.  
 
So that’s a quick update for now.  Gotta get in the shower for dinner now!  It’s a Royal Caribbean singers and dancers show tonight and then “love and marriage”.  
 
 
 

Never got to the pictures of the ship since my phone died...oh well there’s still 4.5 more days for that!
So instead I’ll cover today....Bonaire!  


We docked about 9am and were cleared by about 930.  We first had to go to the theater for the start of our excursion.

 
We did the Bonaire land and sea excursion through Royal Caribbean.  Great experience with small group size!  We had less than 12 people for the entire day!!!  We first went on the “sea” portion so we took a little ride to the sail boat.

 

Once we were all on the sail boat we went for a ride to our snorkel spot.

The snorkeling was awesome and the water was very clear!  Bonaire is a great place for snorkel and scuba!
After the “sea” time was over we went to a lunch spot where we all were provided with a burger and fries.  Not bad...  

After lunch we then took the “land” portion of the excursion which was a drive around the island in this big Mercedes Benz off road vehicle!  It was open air in the back with a cover for shade.  We drove around and got information on the island and saw LOTS of the island!  We stopped a few times for pictures where I got this..

This was on the slightly more expensive of the excursions but we LOVED the small group size where we could enjoy ourselves!  We hate the snorkeling where everyone is kicking each other in the head because it’s sooooo cramped with people! It was an ALL DAY adventure so not much time to walk around once we were done.
On a “never seen that before” note....as we were walking on the ship standing on the bridge from the pier to the ship where security scans your sea pass card the lady in front of us dropped her card in the water.  You can see those cards WAYYYYYY down if anyone was interested to know! ?  
gotta get ready for dinner quick...that’s it for now but have more to cover about yesterday still (including the casino winnings ?)
 

So today is another sea day.  We are going to go check the ship out now that I feel better!  It's overcast today so hardly any sun ? 

 
We will get some pictures of the ship today to share

We are back on the ship after a nice day in Labadee!  We loved beach lounger for 2 and would highly recommend one!

This was our view from the chairs!  Outstanding!

It was a very windy day and got worse as it went on.  We only saw the parasails for a short time in the morning and then it must have been too windy.  Lots of whitecaps!

We took a little walk around and got this shot back towards the main area

All good things must come to an end...unfortunately!  So walked back to the ship and now hanging out in the solarium for a bit and then dinner!

We just love these days at the private stops!  So relaxing and low key!  Especially when home just got about 6” of snow!  Haha!

Sorry had to take a picture of the picture but here is formal night!
 
 
 

We like to go home after the cruise also. Need to get ready for the next cruise. Is LeeAnn Chin still in business? I need some wings.

Good plan!  The deliciousness is very distracting! ? 

My husband loves the Oreo shakes at Johnny Rockets. When I visit next cruise, I stop and get him his shakes before I tell him how many cruises I booked.

Sorry had to take a picture of the picture but here is formal night!
 
 
 

Last night we went to Johnny Rockets for the first time ever on a cruise ship!  We got the milkshakes.  I had caramel and Lisa had Oreo.  Apparently they are included on the refreshment and liquor drink packages!!!  This will be dangerous now that we know that!!!  The server even offered us fries for free but we already should not have been eating the milkshakes so we passed...  I would highly recommend getting a milkshake as a treat at night!  SOOOOO good!

Here is just a picture from the pool deck last night.  It was dead there and it was only 9pm!!!  Everyone must have been packing or eating.

Here is just a picture from the pool deck last night.  It was dead there and it was only 9pm!!!  Everyone must have been packing or eating.

Last night we went to Johnny Rockets for the first time ever on a cruise ship!  We got the milkshakes.  I had caramel and Lisa had Oreo.  Apparently they are included on the refreshment and liquor drink packages!!!  This will be dangerous now that we know that!!!  The server even offered us fries for free but we already should not have been eating the milkshakes so we passed...  I would highly recommend getting a milkshake as a treat at night!  SOOOOO good!

Sorry had to take a picture of the picture but here is formal night!
 
 
 

Last night we went to Johnny Rockets for the first time ever on a cruise ship!  We got the milkshakes.  I had caramel and Lisa had Oreo.  Apparently they are included on the refreshment and liquor drink packages!!!  This will be dangerous now that we know that!!!  The server even offered us fries for free but we already should not have been eating the milkshakes so we passed...  I would highly recommend getting a milkshake as a treat at night!  SOOOOO good!

Sorry had to take a picture of the picture but here is formal night!
 
 
 

She was busy so took it like a paparazzo would...from far away. ? 

Glad to hear you have a few more days to relax. Weather should be good for flying and you'll be home for a warm-up next weekend of around 40F. 

Nachos... are always RIGHTEOUS in my book.
 
Lobster too.  Can't wait for the final pictures.  Way to go!!

Well that was an experience!  We made it to the hotel....thank god!  Getting the luggage and going through customs once we got there was a breeze!  The taxi situation to the hotel was another situation!  People everywhere, drivers not following the directions, and people trying to flag down their own taxis!  Finally got our taxi and made it to the downtown holiday inn.  Room not ready so leaving luggage and going to check the area out for awhile!  
 
That was the longest experience getting off the ship EVER!  They doubled the number of customs people (Atleast that’s what we heard) which sped things up!
 
I’ll be sitting down tonight to get caught up  on stuff here....

Finally off the ship and now waiting in the long line to get luggage!  Apparently they added more customs agents in last 30 minutes to get the ship cleared...more to come

Quick update for getting off the ship...customs and border protection have been overwhelmed apparently so they have stopped people getting off the ship since about 8:00-8:30 this morning.  The ship is still filled with people!  It’s 10:00 and they have only gotten to number 5 for tags.  We are number 21!  Long way to go