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With 700+ days left until this cruise, if @Lovetocruise2002 books it, we can expect her to start her live blog in about 2-3 weeks from now.

I know the feeling, being a Maryland native, I cringe every time I see "Maryland Style Crab Cakes" --- even on the ship .... when I ordered them last December, I think the words that came out of my mouth were something like "What The F^%$" when they arrived.  The Old Bay Sauce was good, but the crab cake..... NOT Maryland Style in any way shape (well, it's round, so I guess that works) or form.

Nope

On “Cruise Mapper” it says both Symphony and Odyssey are scheduled for 4/22.

Three tables and some slot machines.  Looks like they put it together for the handful of complainers that cannot seem to live with just a non smoking half of the casino.  The anti smoker crowd is a small but loud subsection of cruisers and I think they understand that.

The CDC (yeah, I know they have been derps on the COVID stuff) has the information that I am using and they show that the majority of people who smoke are probably also the people who can't afford to go on a cruise as well.
 
That has to be the most asinine statement I've seen in a long time.
 
Now, for reference, I don't smoke, however, my wife enjoys an e-cigarette .... and, don't forget those that enjoy a good cigar (not cheap).  But to assume that smokers are poor, and can't afford to cruise, is pure BS. 

On the Allure last week, peeing was permitted in the "peeing section" of the pool.

Naval term. The bathroom.

Not a Royal ship, one of a lesser competitor.  
There are four or five adults drinking in a hot tub mid day on a sea day.  A little boy is going up and down the stairs to the hot tub every few minutes making faces and saying stuff, teasing the presumably family members in the hot tub.  After this continues for a while the child reaches the top of the stairs, turns around, lowers his trunks and proceeds to do something normally done in a bathroom.  The moment the realization struck the family in the hot tub they simultaneously all flew out of the tub in all directions, leaping over railings in unison.  It was quite the sight to see drunk adults moving so quickly in precision with each other.

People talking out loud to their phones held at arm's length.


 

@Matt & @SpeedNoodles & @AshleyDillo - For your consideration - can we please resurrect this suggestion from @bazingau for you to consider making a separate subtopic ("folder" if you will) under Roll-Calls for each ship name, so that roll-calls can be placed in the "folder" (subtopic) by ship name for ease of use?  I'd recommend still following @JLMoran's topic name format syntax for the roll-calls in the (new) separate subfolders.  And hopefully the admins could simply move old/existing cruises into the respective new folders by ship name to get us started.  Thanks for considering.

I used to think that I made the best crab cakes.  And I do make some damn tasty ones.  Then we spent some time in Baltimore a couple of years ago.  Yeah...nothing better than a Maryland blue crab lumpy crab cake.  Especially ones from Faidley's.

I know the feeling, being a Maryland native, I cringe every time I see "Maryland Style Crab Cakes" --- even on the ship .... when I ordered them last December, I think the words that came out of my mouth were something like "What The F^%$" when they arrived.  The Old Bay Sauce was good, but the crab cake..... NOT Maryland Style in any way shape (well, it's round, so I guess that works) or form.

Yes, it's a real casino that has a lot of money that is no longer mine!

I know the feeling, being a Maryland native, I cringe every time I see "Maryland Style Crab Cakes" --- even on the ship .... when I ordered them last December, I think the words that came out of my mouth were something like "What The F^%$" when they arrived.  The Old Bay Sauce was good, but the crab cake..... NOT Maryland Style in any way shape (well, it's round, so I guess that works) or form.

If you're nice to a moderator we'll delete it for you 🙂

Yes.  Yes, they will.
LOL

Going under the bridges is epic every single time.

@michelle is absolutely amazing ..... the loyalty runs deep.  

Going under the bridges is epic every single time.