WONDERing about D+, Roatan, and how my wife has put up with me for 22 years - June 2-9, 2024

[OCSC Mike]

7 minutes ago, Sweety said:

Can you go to mason jar just for the drinks? James will want one or two per night.

Absolutely. I had at least 3-4 Mississippi Moonlights outside of my 2 at brunch so far. The WJ pic looking out at the water behind a drink from last night is one. I like that the MJ bar is right next to WJ.

The MJ bar is very popular at night, especially if the country trio is playing.

[OCSC Mike]

Waiting for the announcement to go ashore with our donation bag…

[SweetPea]

1 hour ago, OCSC Mike said:

HUGE RANT!

I honestly don't know how you'll survive the rest of your cruise. 

Condolences  

[SweetPea]

11 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

There is a running joke among teachers….teachers of little ones have no clue how we deal with the hormonal teenagers. Teachers of hormonal teachers run scared and freeze as soon as they approach the hallways that house the little ones. that is what life is like in a K-8 school in Ontario lol

I missed this, but i get it! I've probably mentioned that i was actually supposed to be an English teacher and did my student teaching for a full semester. I had Grades 9-12. Back then it was all note passing. That's how i knew who had a crush on whom, who the suspected fart culprit was, and that i accidentally had my dress on backwards one day ....

 

They were seriously a handful then. I don't know how you do it now with smart phones and social media. 

[Sweety]

39 minutes ago, SweetPea said:

I missed this, but i get it! I've probably mentioned that i was actually supposed to be an English teacher and did my student teaching for a full semester. I had Grades 9-12. Back then it was all note passing. That's how i knew who had a crush on whom, who the suspected fart culprit was, and that i accidentally had my dress on backwards one day ....

 

They were seriously a handful then. I don't know how you do it now with smart phones and social media. 

We have phone lockers

[GregD]

8 hours ago, OCSC Mike said:

We went to an adult game show in the comedy club afterward.

This is the game show I got @TheBoss518 to compete in while we were on the Norway Cruise. Somehow, even despite my very lack luster "dancing" abilities, we won!!

[GregD]

6 hours ago, SweetPea said:

i was actually supposed to be an English teacher

I too went to college and was going to teach HS biology....I got all the way to student teaching, then realized...I hate kids, well not all kids....but enough of them that I realized, maybe teaching isn't for me. I salute all you educators out there. I can run into burning buildings and have no issues with the blood and guts in my job, but I cannot deal with moody teenagers all day. 

[OCSC Mike]

1 hour ago, GregD said:

This is the game show I got @TheBoss518 to compete in while we were on the Norway Cruise. Somehow, even despite my very lack luster "dancing" abilities, we won!!

Did you play the game with the stick & the toilet paper “hole”? IYKYK

[OCSC Mike]

We had an amazing private tour of Roatán. Saw & learned a lot from our guide, a gentleman named Cardy (yes, like the rum or the rapper).

He’s a scuba divemaster & worked as an EMT of sorts amongst other things in the past. He had so much interesting info to share & was much more than just a nice guy who drove us around to see sloths & beaches. He got us into a resort that normally charges $20pp for the day. We didn’t really spend time there but we walked around… very nice resort.

I’ll go through sloth & monkey pics later… a monkey tried to eat my wife’s Apple watch but was far more interested in eating my head.

It was very hot out. Thankfully we were only out for an extended period at Manawakie Eco Park to see the animals. The rest of the day was spent hopping in & out of his air conditioned car.

[OCSC Mike]

Grabbed some drinks to cool off when we got back onboard & had ELF & my first kummelweck in a while. Wife didn’t find much but we’re going to Playmakers tonight so she’s ok with it. We’ll probably eat on the later side (for us anyway).

Just failed at movie poster trivia. Gonna relax for a while before dinner.

[SweetPea]

1 hour ago, GregD said:

I too went to college and was going to teach HS biology....I got all the way to student teaching, then realized...I hate kids, well not all kids....but enough of them that I realized, maybe teaching isn't for me

Sub English for Biology and exactly the same! I also did a complete career pivot. I kept my license, just in case but after 30 years, nope. No flipping way! God bless all you teachers!

Also, @OCSC Mike, it's late but you should probably get cracking on those vouchers. This might get old. For you. Just remember you ASKED me to do this.

 

[OCSC Mike]

Just now, SweetPea said:

it's late but you should probably get cracking on those vouchers

For some reason they don’t work on Roatán once you leave the ship. It’s going in my survey.

[OCSC Mike]

Popped into the CL just to check out snacks. They had the fruity pebble krispie treats everyone seems to love more than I do. This made me realize we never got our dumb little chef plate of snacks that usually has one of them.

[OCSC Mike]

 

[GatorCruiser]

Awesome stuff Mike. We’ll be there in August. !

[OCSC Mike]

[OCSC Mike]

Keep your pockets empty!

 

They had to put one monkey in monkey jail b/c he stole a guest’s passport & $400.

[Lovetocruise2002]

Love the pics!

[Ampurp85]

EWWWWW on the monkeys but OMG are the sloths so cute. 

[OCSC Mike]

Spiciest Goalpost margarita ever. 

[OCSC Mike]

A big party rented the owner’s box for game 1 of the NBA finals.

[Neesa]

OMG so funny! As soon as I saw the monkey pictures I thought, " Wow, @Ampurp85 favorite"  thanks for sharing pics of you and your lovely bride! I also can't get enough of the sloths 

[OCSC Mike]

Great server, gave us each extra fries & a few onion rings on the side just because. Back to stuffed, lol. Playmakers isn’t supposed to be that big of a meal.

Time for a post-dinner break. No real plans tonight. Gonna find some music somewhere if my wife comes out of her food coma. She loves the garlic parm fries & almost finished them.

[Lovetocruise2002]

He’s lucky those monkeys didn’t do their business on him lol! I still remember when we did that excursions and they warned Hubby and he thought there was no way. Well it happened to the guy right next to him

[WAAAYTOOO]

Yippee !!  An actual Mike- sighting !  Sorry about the monkey eating your head like that.  I’m sure a nice ball cap will cover that right up.

[perfect match]

15 hours ago, OCSC Mike said:

Waiting for the announcement to go ashore with our donation bag…

How did your donation of the school supplies go? That was a substantial bag of supplies you were toting with you! 

I loved your sloth and monkey interactions! I’d love to see them but my main goal is to get in the water and see some of ther reefs on Routan. I’ve never been to Routan but I’m told they’re pretty good. I did take a look at Rony’s Tours website but as of now we’re booked on the ship’s tour to Maya Key. 

[Sweety]

When we were in Cuba, they were grateful for the supplies. James still talk about how surprised and gracious they were. The females loved the pony tail holders. I hope Cuba will be on agenda soon 

[ScottD]

LOVE the pics, the monkeys were amazed by my kids hair (he has a huge head of hair) to the point where they were digging through looking for food, had us cracking up.   

That playmakers burger... damn!! 

I'm also interested in how the school visit went! 

[OCSC Mike]

School visit went well. They had split shifts at the one Cardy took us to (near his house where his grandkids go). The younger kids (K-3) went from 1-5:30pm local time (older in the morning) & ship time was an hour ahead so we couldn’t wait to see the little ones. My wife had collected mostly markers, crayons, pencils, etc. so after we told Cardy of course he could take some for his grandkids as well as keep the rolling duffel bag which was old but in great shape (he was so nice & appreciative), we dropped the supplies off in the school office & then popped into a 4th & 5th grade classroom briefly just to say hi. The kids weren’t impressed with my broken Spanish as much as I was, lol. I was close to fluent in college then sadly lost a lot of it from lack of use.

So anyway, we didn't get to actually give the kids the supplies directly since they were more for the younger ones but that wasn’t the point. I’m sure they will be appreciated & my wife enjoyed seeing the school. She couldn’t get over how you can just walk up to a school there given all the security in place in US schools now for obvious reasons.

[OCSC Mike]

Back to 1st world problems… we called it an early night thanks to our overly generous Playmakers server and the mountain of garlic parm fries. Too much food & garlic for my wife. I was ready to go chill in Music Hall or somewhere for a little while with a couple more drinks but we had no big plans, as I said, and I was more tired from Roatán than I realized so it’s fine.

Worst voucher usage yet but of course we weren’t on the ship to use them until like 2-3pm so whatever. This is practice for next month.

Not sure how my wife slept. She’s out as I type this. We’re going to walk around the port in Costa Maya for a bit then just get back on the ship. We’d normally go early but I’ll see how she’s doing when she gets up. I’ve been pushing back my early AM CL coffee runs so as not to wake here.

We’re having a good time as always but we’ll have a better plan for next month now that we know how to order at GK without going overboard & no more po’ boys for me at Mason Jar. Playmakers wasn't our fault other than having no self-control with the fries, lol. We love it there but have never considered it a huge meal. I keep saying I’ve always enjoyed eating lots of small meals/snacks throughout the day/evening so I just need to cut down on how much I eat at our few specialty meals.

[Lovetocruise2002]

1 hour ago, OCSC Mike said:

Back to 1st world problems… we called it an early night thanks to our overly generous Playmakers server and the mountain of garlic parm fries. Too much food & garlic for my wife. I was ready to go chill in Music Hall or somewhere for a little while with a couple more drinks but we had no big plans, as I said, and I was more tired from Roatán than I realized so it’s fine.

Worst voucher usage yet but of course we weren’t on the ship to use them until like 2-3pm so whatever. This is practice for next month.

Not sure how my wife slept. She’s out as I type this. We’re going to walk around the port in Costa Maya for a bit then just get back on the ship. We’d normally go early but I’ll see how she’s doing when she gets up. I’ve been pushing back my early AM CL coffee runs so as not to wake here.

We’re having a good time as always but we’ll have a better plan for next month now that we know how to order at GK without going overboard & no more po’ boys for me at Mason Jar. Playmakers wasn't our fault other than having no self-control with the fries, lol. We love it there but have never considered it a huge meal. I keep saying I’ve always enjoyed eating lots of small meals/snacks throughout the day/evening so I just need to cut down on how much I eat at our few specialty meals.

This whole episode is what we call "food coma" my friend lol

[GregD]

15 hours ago, OCSC Mike said:

Did you play the game with the stick & the toilet paper “hole”? IYKYK

We did not play this game. This sounds like story time for later though!

I'm loving all the pictures. Your wife has the same smile mine does when holding sloths.

 

[OCSC Mike]

49 minutes ago, GregD said:

did not play this game. This sounds like story time for later though!

Remind me, lol, you may not want to play it again.

[OCSC Mike]

1 hour ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

This whole episode is what we call "food coma" my friend lol

But there’s functional food coma & food coma that knocks you out entirely, lol, the goal is to remain functional.

[OCSC Mike]

It was cloudy & raining earlier so we decided to go chill in the Solarium & walk the port if the weather improves. I’m fine with no sun, Solarium temp is nice, but did want to go out for a bit so off to find a better weather report than the one the basic iPhone weather app has which said no rain. It was storming at one point. 

EDIT: Forget that idea, lol.

[OCSC Mike]

Now…

Later this morning…

[OCSC Mike]

OK, sometimes I think every weather forecast/site is unreliable. It’s cloudy & rainy but not like those radar pictures.

[Lovetocruise2002]

58 minutes ago, OCSC Mike said:

But there’s functional food coma & food coma that knocks you out entirely, lol, the goal is to remain functional.

All the same to me. Once eat too much, I'm barely functional. No in between here lol

[WAAAYTOOO]

4 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

All the same to me. Once eat too much, I'm barely functional. No in between here lol

That’s me, too

[OCSC Mike]

It’s usually a cumulative effect for me… I start to feel it on day 6. Feeling it on night 1 is problematic.