schmoopie17

Depending which survey you look at, about 11% of all American adults are smokers. 89% are not. Seems like there should be a better way to accommodate the vast majority...especially since smoke wafts far and wide and impacts everyone in the vicinity and beyond. Nasty habit...and it all goes up in smoke. Oh, wait. This was a casino discussion. In that case, never mind.

Where's the best place to see turnips? 😛 Apparently they're a big thing over there, per @mking8288 👇 "4 of us with 2 other CC couples to see the turnips & flower show, etc."

I was in hospital management for many years. Nurses were my favorite employees. Doctors, on the other hand...in the words of Forrest Gump, when talking about a box of chocolates..."You never know what you're going to get." Although, I've never bitten into a doctor (or a nurse, for that matter) to see if they had a nougat filling. Good thing I retired before I got the urge...

That's quite an impressive weenie. (Will now go back under my rock before I comment further...)

If you ask me (and I know you didn't)...that's a better use of a McDonald's gift card than actually going to McDonald's.

Maybe you were eating Rudolph's nose...

Is it a free shuttle, or do you have to make some krona magically appear between getting off the ship and getting on the shuttle?

I don't know why they call it a tender when the process is usually tough,

I can say with certainty that the answer would be "yes". Only because she snores loudly every night. 😛

Sounds like the same set-up as the Jade. Teppenyaki is stashed away inside the Asian restaurant (Jasmine). The goofy thing is there is one line that is used for both restaurants and the host/hostess would constantly go down the line every couple of minutes asking if people were in line for Teppanyaki and pull them out to seat them. We ate in Jasmine four (or was it five) times and loved it.

@D. B.Hoping you'll have follow-up reports. We have friends on this cruise and would like to "ride along" vicariously.

Will be following along with everyone on their shore excursions. We will have an Iceland stop for two days next year but have no idea what to see or do. I guess we can anticipate seeing lots of ice...hence the name.

On this point I need to disagree. My feeling is that desserts are the one area where NCL consistently excels. I almost never get dessert when we go out for dinner on land, but I always get dessert after every meal on an NCL cruise. As for entertainment, I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned "Choir of Man". Probably the best NCL production show...until they replace it with some inane game show (but hopefully not before September when we're on the Escape again).

WOW...looks like a huge "crowd" for Deal or no Deal. That was about the same size "crowd" we had for Wheel of Fortune on the Jade. Hoping NCL observes the "crowds" and decides to pull the plug on the game show fiasco.

All of this Chocolate Cowboy talk has caused me to dig deep into the photo archives for this picture of the Schmoopies with the famous one behind the bar on the Prima last year.