MistiSweigart

Yes thank you. I'm so excited. I love cruising. 

My mom and I are going on this sailing and can't wait. We saw her in Bayonne a few years ago but were unable to sail on her. 
Super excited to be spending a week enjoying our favorite cruise line again!!
Been on Serenade, Grandeur, and Adventure, and Saw Anthem. 
Any advice from people who have been on Liberty?

Awesome!! Congratulations! My next stop would be the Book Your Next Cruise Desk!!! HAHAHA

I have been in dry dock for almost 8 years, and it’s finally (FINALLY!!) time for the uncontainable excitement I have for my upcoming cruise to boil over onto the Live Blog pages! We’ll be on Liberty of the Seas embarking September 1 for a 7 day western Caribbean cruise to Roatan, Costa Maya, and Cozumel. We're also heading to Galveston a couple days early to visit Space Center Houston. Unfortunately, this will not be a true live blog as we are unplugging for the trip, but list any questions you have here and I’ll do my best to get the answers when I’m on board then post when I’m back. I’ll post our plans and some details over the next several days and a review with photos once home.
About us - I am 39 and DH is 47. I home school our two kids and run a wedding cake bakery from home. I like to think I can talk to myself in public and call it a parent-teacher conference. ? DH is an engineer.  DH and I have sailed twice before, both on Royal - Independence Eastern Caribbean in 2010 out of Ft. Lauderdale and Voyager Western Caribbean in 2011 out of Galveston. We loved both of these, and our only “complaint” if we had to come up with one was that the dance floors were too small. This will be our kids’ first cruise; DD is 10 and DS is 7. DD has Autism Spectrum Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. A few years ago, she would have been diagnosed with Aspergers, but it’s now lumped in with ASD. She doesn’t generally need special accommodations as she’s mainly socially awkward (can’t remember multiple step tasks, gets distracted in her own world, interrupts you mid-sentence to tell you all about dinosaurs/Pokemon/every word of a tv show she saw once 6 years ago). With her GAD, she occasionally catastrophizes things. In her mind, wild fires in California mean the whole world will be consumed by flames type of thing, so we did a lot of video watching and safety type prep with her to hopefully ease any fears that might come up on board. I had several photos of a life boat drill and another crew drill from our previous sailings which helped a lot. DS is your typical silly, loud boy. Both the kids are extremely excited for the cruise. Right now they want to spend a little time in Adventure Ocean each day, but we'll be spending a good portion of the time together as a family. 
Why this cruise - I decided that it had been long enough since our last cruise, and that we were going to take one for my 40th birthday. It’s the same month as the sailing, so it counts, right? We actually had our third one booked in 2012, but we got pregnant with DS and wound up just cancelling due to timing of everything else going on in our lives beyond a new baby (aging parents, job changes, etc). We have been land vacationing a lot these last 8 years at Great Wolf Lodge as there is one less than an hour from our house, the kids love it, and it’s cheaper than Disney!  Because we live in north Texas (Dallas area), we decided to keep it easy and drive down to Galveston. Liberty’s water slides and Splashaway Bay will be a good fit for my kids, and I wanted a 7 day cruise which Liberty offered as opposed to Enchantment’s 4 or 5 day itineraries. We booked during the 2018 Black Friday sale which featured a discount on the second passenger and Kids Sail Free promotions. We picked up about $500 in price drops along the way, even after our cabin category sold out thanks to @Lovetocruise2002's tips.
More to come...

We board her in 7 days! 
Like Adventure, you can access the helipad. She's feels like a big sister to the Voyager class, so you'll feel right at home.

Saturday Night Fever is the Broadway show on board.  No reservations are needed.  Great show!

We booked the Liberty for March 2021. Only 574 days to go!

We are on Liberty now.  Nothing much to report since we’ve only been under way for about an hour.  James McDonald is Capt, Marco Roko is the Chief Engineer, Adrian Theodore is the Hotel Director and Jeffrey Arpin is the Cruise Director.  No mention of who the Activities Director is.  We were slightly delayed in boarding this morning.  I think we finally boarded at about 11:15.  The Captain mentioned the weather disturbance in the east but said it’s unlikely to affect us.  Everything’s going great so far.  I’ll let you know if anything of interest develops.  We had lunch in Chops (UDP) and found out that Chops on LIB no longer serves red velvet cake but as soon as he said that, I recalled that they didn’t have it last year either.  The server said that they still offer it in the MDR on formal night but not at Chops anymore.  ??. The cheesecake was pretty darned good though !
Adriana is the Suites Concierge. I have not met her before but we’re heading to the SL now to give her a list of dinner plans for the rest of the week.  She has been very attentive so far (by mail) so I think I will like her.  Sabor for dinner (sans the queso fundido, unfortunately).

My mom and I are going on this sailing and can't wait. We saw her in Bayonne a few years ago but were unable to sail on her. 
Super excited to be spending a week enjoying our favorite cruise line again!!
Been on Serenade, Grandeur, and Adventure, and Saw Anthem. 
Any advice from people who have been on Liberty?