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Good morning from Grand Turk. Still awake earlier than I would like but I'm awake and can't get back to sleep. Gonna get moving and grab some breakfast but first I need to send out some laundry. I packed light and we have another dress up night already tomorrow. Should be enough time to get it back but on the Journeys cruise it was not and I ended up having to eat in the buffet. Shouldn't be a problem here, but it's still cutting it closer than I would like.

Back in the room. Going to see if there is anything on the TV, but it will probably be a YouTube kind of evening. I'm hoping I can sleep in a little tomorrow so I can last a little later. Tomorrow is Quest and I really wanna make it to that! Tomorrow is also Grand Turk, but I think it will be another stay on board day, I want to get some photos of the ship while everyone is out, but if I get done early enough I may venture out for a few minutes, we'll see. Until then, thanks for following along. Good night everyone.

Sat down for the show and started getting super sleepy so I bailed. Grabbing a little snack then I think I'm at the end of my road for the day.

At the theater now for 88 keys.

#2 Living on a prayer 🎶

Mobile bar has at best one drink left in it then is going to need to be refilled so I'm double fisting it right now with my drinks from earlier. At the Red Frog for solo guitar with Alex Mel. He's around the corner, I don't need to see him. Neither me nor Shazam know what he's singing but he sounds good.

Menu on Lido tonight. They had spring rolls and I sure was tempted to sample them.

The escargot will not be winning any awards for best escargot. They had no real flavor and were swimming in entirely too much grease. Pass. The Jumbo shrimp were quite good. I liked the sauce better in the previous version, but this sauce was good also and better than the normal generic bland red sauce that seems to come with all their dishes on the previous menus. This also came with a nice cauliflower and mashed peas side that was very tasty and helped to make this a more filling dish than the previous offering. The fish was again very good tonight. This was a better fish than last night and again the sauce kicked it up another notch. It was a tangy BBQ sauce which does not sound like it would be good, but they worked quite well together. I also enjoyed the bed of spinach that you can't really see hiding under the fish as well as the potatoes. Another winner from Emeril. I wanted to brave the beef dish tonight, but I just wasn't quite ready to chance it. Filet in the MDR? That is taking a big risk, the quality is just not usually there and my filet at lunch was so good this couldn't possibly compete but I am committed to giving it a shot next week. I was happy to see the grand mariner soufflé carry over to the new menus. Unfortunately, this was undercooked and not good. I hope my melting cake will be this uncooked but a soufflé needs to be cooked through and this was not. Panna cotta was a delicious globe of chocolate goodness! Excellent. A couple misses but still a good meal overall. I am near the same seat as last night but I think I have a different waiter. Last night my waiter's personality on a scale of 1 to 10 would rate a 3. Tonight, I would give the waiter a 1 and ask for consideration for a lower score to be possible. I am not getting the warm and fuzzies from the wait staff so far in the dining room. At least the food has been good so far.

Grand mariner souffle and chocolate Panna cotta 725

Shrimp and fish cake and firecracker branzino 715.

Escargot 653.

Tonight's menu on fancy night #1

Took 20. Table assigned at 631. It's showtime. Rolling on a river 🎶

It's been 17 so far. I think their timer is off tonight.

Checked in at 611 with under 10 minutes wait.

Sauna works nice on here. I don't realize how well while I'm in it but after getting out I became light headed so came to the room to lie down for a spell. Heading back out now to get my walk in then I think I will be ready for dinner.

Gloomy at sea is definitely better.

Still gloomy out.

Going to the sauna now and need to try to work in some time on the jogging track.

Thanks for coming along again!

Celebration heading out into the open ocean. Never seen South Beach this empty.

Work continues on Terminal AA. Miami

Encore, the other ship I haven't been on. No other ship had a louder party going on than Celebration, but Oasis did have the most cheers as sailed past.

Following Celebration out. Looking back at Virgin. This view is prettier in the sunshine but still nice to look at.

Looking back at the last three ships. Five ships. Miami skyline up close. We've turned around now. Celebration is already heading out.