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I’m so sad that your trip over is ending! Although it does mean my trip is closer! Lol i do hope you’ll be able to continue reporting through the next 20 days until the trip back, I have truly enjoyed following along on your adventures. I told my mom about your “mobile bar” and she immediately started searching for the water bottle she wants to bring 😂 You may have started a trend, we’ll have to see if half the ship back is similarly equipped 😉

We are on the return as well and I am pretty sure it is 6:00 and 8:15.

I think your mama's routine sounds fantastic! Sounds like my ideal day, except the shopping parts (I abhor shopping). Maybe we will meet up on the return trip, because I would totally chill with your mama! Like now I am wondering if we play any of the same games. I guess that reflects the fact that I am in between her age and yours, Ha! Looking forward to hearing about your HOHO experience in Malaga. I know what I want to do there, and I think we can walk it, but still considering the HOHO because while I believe I am 24 in my head, I am not actually 24 (and I am also dragging my mama around to do all the things, and even if I was 24, she wouldn't be!)

Thank you for asking this. I saw this as well and wondered if this was a part of the plan for Freedom's dry dock. Having said that, have you heard anything about what else may be happening besides the obvious new tail?

Hi! I'll be joining jam19872016 on the return TA on Freedom from Barcelona at the end of the month. It is so exciting as we get closer to cruising!!!

Ok, can you define “chilly” please? I ask because I am struggling to know if I should prioritize long clothes or short clothes, but chilly is so subjective! I can get the historical temp data for Spain, but not for the middle of the ocean. I spend a lot of time out on the deck, and I’ll bring layers, but will it be shorts during the day and joggers at night, or what? The packing struggle is real over here because I am hoping to manage this trip carry on only with just a little laundry. So no judgment when y’all see me in the same thing for the 4th time 😂. And thank you for all the detail you are including in this report, checking in on you and your mama everyday has become part of my routine, lol.

That last menu looked like my favorite so far! I hope the weather behaves itself for your stop in the Azores.

Don’t let them fool you. They’re monsters 😂 Trixter (aka Trixie, in the back w the white nose) thinks every thing is a cat tree, especially humans. Dixie Belle (on the left) is currently missing a huge chunk of her face because reasons? I still haven’t figured out if she did it to herself or if the other goblins helped 🤷🏻‍♀️. And Pixel (aka Pixie, on the right) is the baby and she’s meaner than she looks. She’s like a little dog that believes it’s a big dog, she even fetches! Lol. but clearly you’re surrounded by cats at home, so, you get it. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. I mean, you drunk texted for literal cat pics 😂😉

Ahhhhhh. Kitties!!!!! And tabby kitties at that! My triplets for the tax.

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much for all the details! You are giving me great ideas for what to make sure I don’t forget (I love that you noted that your “mobile cocktail device” can double as a water bottle. Lolololol). I’m saving all the menu pics and what’s going on pics to reference once my brain goes into “cruise mode” and I can’t get any real work done! I love seeing all the activities that are unique to longer journeys cruises, as this is my first longer trip, I was wondering what they’d fill up the sea days with exactly. super random question, and maybe you’ve addressed it and I missed it, but any idea what the crew is doing while she’s in dry dock? Is it the same folks (mostly) on the return trip?

Wow! So much fun, and so much fantastic information so far!!! I just started at the beginning and have enjoyed every minute of it. I will be joining you on the return TA next month, also traveling with my mom! We’ve never done a TA so I am anxiously awaiting all the details from this leg of your journey. If you can post the menus (which I assume will be very similar on the return) I would be super appreciative. I haven’t been able to find a lot of specific details and my anxiety wants to know it all, lol 😀 I hate that y’all didn’t bring your costumes, but no doubt the space was filled with a trip this long. I was wondering what most folks did for Halloween, still a few weeks away from packing here, but maybe I’ll have space to throw something fun in!