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Our table full of lobster last night

I did the FlowRider! I did the baby version but I never wiped out.

Someone was definitely cutting onions near me during the "in Memorandum" portion

Top is 2022, middle is 2023 and bottom is this year

Our picture from Dress Your Best last night.

It was the family fair on the Boardwalk so got a pic of the cupcakes. And a cool chart at the Wonderland bar.

Then we hid some ducks. Two were picked up immediately after we started to walk away so I think those little girls saw us hide them. @DoomSlayer there are two hidden in a space where families can have non-electric fun together and one in a whimsical restaurant.

Johnny Rockets for breakfast today, Escape room & Playmakers for lunch. These are the best onion rings I've ever had in my whole life. We were stuffed after lunch so will go back later for dessert. After breakfast, I went on the water slide with the bowl. Wanted to do flow rider but ran out of time. We missed winning the Escape Room by about 10 seconds. We literally just had to get a second person to press one button to finish the whole thing. We only used one clue and should have asked earlier for a second and third. My parents had never done an escape room and had no idea what was going on. My kids did a fantastic job figuring stuff out. I was the queen of pointing out when I thought something would be important but then letting others jump in to actually solve that thing

Apparently the teen crowd has discovered our magnet people. Just heard someone messing with them again and knocked on the door from the inside while looking through the peephole and man did they scurry off i found it hilarious but also don't want to be woken up all night so I pulled them inside.

So today was separate breakfast & lunch in the MDR; tomorrow is brunch. I asked our waiter (we have Leroy and Jeremi) and he said they just decide based on how the chef feels and what ingredients they have. We had lunch in the MDR today and I really hated the butternut squash risotto. Dinners have been amazingly good but I did not enjoy either lunch.

When we came back from Flight, someone had moved our magnet people into dirty positions. Not sharing a pic

My daughter seems to have maxed out at 5'3 and has been there for a few years, but my son just keeps growing. He and my husband did a photo of the two of them in Central Park tonight so I'm going to post a similar pic from the past two years to show the difference once I find the other two. We did NOT do our group in Central Park because of the Marilyn Monroe wind effect. Oh, and we are not a fan of his 'stache but he does NOT want to shave it so we don't say anything... Teens have to figure out their own style, right? I am not one to talk because I had huge bangs at his age slathered with Aqua net.

I think we got a decent group pic but it's on my mom's phone so I have to wait for her to upload.

So it is subtle, but one end of these fish have a mouth line (inside instead of outside) and it does indeed point towards the front of the ship.

This red velvet cake was delicious! The MDR chef is French so I'm wondering if that makes any difference with the pastries? I've had so many bad versions of "red velvet" on Royal that my expectations were low, but I was thrilled with what I got.

I really enjoyed Flight. There were some parts of the story line that were a little corny but the overall theme, the songs and the special effects were great, IMHO. @PPPJJ-GCVAB we were on the main level, on the aisle, about 3/4 of the way back and really loved the POV from there. If we were further forward and more in the middle, it would also have been cool with more events directly overhead but maybe not able to see the full finale quite as well, so there's a trade off. Get there early! We were there 40 minutes before the show and where we sat were the best seats available. And it was Dress Your Best so a lot of people were doing pictures and some were still eating. My cup clip came with to the theater: This isn't a great picture with the lights, but shows (kind of) where we were sitting.

Welp, that didn't happen

Dress Your Best & Lobsters tonight My mom really wants a group picture where we are standing up so let's see if we can get a good one.

Is it common knowledge that the fish on the carpet face to the front of the ship? I was today years old when I learned this.

We're going to go early to Flight tonight to get good seats so I'm hoping to backtrack a little we're sitting there tonight with more details about Aruba & Curacao. We've seen the Stowaway Piano player twice more, once when we were coming out of laser tag, and moving his piano during Zumba. This is my son's favorite artwork on Symphony. Some random pics at Schooner (we showed up for selfie scavenger hunt, picked up a paper, looked at the list, put it back and left. Just too much running around.), at Zumba, at the Ultimate Abyss (Ricardo was working there - he led our pickleball last night - and chatted for a while while we waited for more mats), interactive art and a few more from Wonderland & Butterfly Garden.

Our cabin attendant is Frank (I keep privately pronouncing it like the wedding planner from Father of the Bride, even though he is nothing like the character). He is fantastic. I could see him moving up to suites if he stays on. We clip our curtains at night to keep it dark, and he started doing it for us when he makes up the room. And we've put the kids in charge of hiding most of the ducks (not yours @DoomSlayer) so they were in their room, and he did this:

My daughter found me ranger cookies in the WJ at lunch and brought them I'm so happy! My day 7 little magnet people I'm so happy to see this divider. We had a bad situation last year (or two years ago?) where there was a long line out to the side and then others kept walking up directly straight and cutting in front of everyone. I'm glad if they are going to allow 2 lines, that it is marked where to stand for each thing. My son wants a new pair of Ray Bans. He found an abandoned pair last year (not on cruise) and likes them quite a bit. He worked all last summer and has that money saved. He's been looking on the ship, trying different models on, and I think decided to wait until we're home, but I told him he should get these:

I'm still exhausted from yesterday so maybe I can't do all of that in one day anymore too. Just went to Zumba. The cruise director is leading it but I haven't caught his name yet. He makes it so much fun, but today, he kept going down into squats and uggghhhh it hurt.

Oh no! I screwed it up! Too bad, I guess I'll just have to go back again and find the right one, oh well

We should be so lucky for her to turn out like you, @Ampurp85!