jam19872016

I hear Christmas music! At Ocean Plaza for our group photo and mimosa. Poor bar waiter dropped the full tray of mimosas. Using the Oh crap button!!

Yes it is 😀. Hope the overhead music is switched to Christmas today too.

Yes, same guy.

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We're moving.

Last call at 915.

They just opened an additional gangway on deck 2.

Just called the last luggage group. Line is quite long still so we will probably be here a while still but we are making progress.

I guess it's probably better, you can always ask for two pieces.

I purchased on the last evening after they were no longer confiscating purchases. I can't say with any certainty if I had purchased earlier I would have been able to get my purchase. Thank you!

No peeking 👀

Unfortunately I did not. Today is a good candidate for an afternoon nap though.

Good morning everyone. It was after 1 am before I finally fell asleep last night so I slept until announcements started coming into the room. Did a final room check and I think I'm good to go. Heading to the meeting point now.

Got my packing done since I will need to move rooms tomorrow. I thought about going out for one drink since the Piano Bar is open tonight, but I decided against it. I don't have to be up super early, but I do need to meet for B2B at 8:45 so I want to go ahead and unwind in the room and try to make it an early night. Thanks for following along so far, tomorrow we will be in Miami to start the second leg of this trip! Good night everyone.

Ended up doing the gym. The track was a little too wet, it must have rained recently. Lets talk about dinner. The fried green tomatoes were not good. There was no real flavor to it and they had either been cooked too long, or sitting under a heat lamp for a while. The sauce was fine, thankfully, since it was all I could really taste. Things improved vastly from here. The braised beef brisket was incredibly tender, juicy and full of flavor. This was easily one of the best beef briskets I've ever had! The sides were all delicious as well and better than the previous version, bringing this classic dish that was already a favorite to an even higher standard! I ordered an extra side of veggies but even without it, there was a generous portion to compliment the dish. Next was the barramundi another favorite of mine from the classic menus. It was what I usually ordered instead of the lobster if I am recalling correctly. Again, the preparations of the sides are different and it was once again another slam dunk. Every single flavor in this dish was amazing. I wish I knew what that tomato looking thing on top was, it had a slightly sweet flavor to it and I could eat a bowl of that stuff! Both my entrees were slam dunk winners tonight! Overall I am a huge fan of these new menus! I hope that they can maintain consistency as the menus age. If they can, I will be a huge fan of dinner on Carnival for years to come! The baked Alaska was ok. Somewhere along the line the slice of the cake got so thin you could see through it. I dug up an old picture for reference from Magic 2018. For some reason I had ordered two slices, oh if I had only known how much smaller they would get! Look at this one from Vista 2018 Note how these stand up like a slice of cake is supposed to, today's version could not support the weight of the ice cream. Not bad, I just know the baked Alaska can be so much better.

Mobile bar for next week has been secured. Off to do my last mile for the day on the track and then we'll talk about dinner.

Baked Alaska 806.

Wow, incredible speed. Braised beef and barrumundi 751.

Oh yes, priority service. Fried green tomatoes 748.

The natives are getting restless. I'm next to a six top which slows things down for me when they decide to pace everyone's dinner together. I got lucky and they took my order but those folks are still waiting for service. Hoping I continue to get faster service and my app doesn't wait to come until theirs. Think it's a different waiter, he seems friendly but clearly swamped.

Yes. We did that on Freedom and they were happy to accommodate. I haven't really "clicked" with anyone even though some have been better than others.

A lot of the menu items tonight are carry over from the old menu but the preparations and sides seem different.

Table was assigned within seconds...I think I'm back in the unfriendly section of the MDR.

Checked in for dinner at 714 with under 10 minute wait.

I need a cat.