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Got the diamond lunch at noon but need to put a little food in my belly. Yes, those are cut up hot dogs masquerading as breakfast sausages 😆

Pool got refilled. Don't expect many takers till the weather improves. Hot tubs still closed.

It's still October right? Overhead music disagrees. Winter Wonderland 🎶

It's military appreciation day onboard.

No reading from the scale, way too rocky. I've taken a motion pill.

My mom noted the same. It was really just spaghetti. I'm not usually a fan of veal but this is usually pretty good. We came late so it makes sense it was a little off, I'm sure it probably sat too long before it got to me. No they definitely missed the mark on authenticity 😆

Good morning everyone. We are now just five hours ahead of EST. One hour behind CEST. Today is a sea day en route to Las Palmas. The only plans I have so far is the diamond lunch at noon and walk a mile with Andy but there is plenty to do, or nothing to do if you feel like it. I'm leaning towards the latter 😀

Jill was ok. Got a few good laughs in. I'm back in the room now and winding down for the night. We gain an hour tonight and so for the first time in weeks, I will not be six hours ahead of eastern time. This will be the first of seven time changes. I am all for some 25 hour days! Goodnight everyone.

1030 tons of open seats. Host says love and marriage just ending so they are going to wait five minutes a storm of people would be here. She wasn't kidding, this will be SRO by the time the show starts. Guess I really do need to show up early still bummer. Jill Kimmel R18+ starting now.

Really trying to do more comedy I just hate having to show up so early and sit and the bar seating is uncomfortable for me. Here 15 minutes early but when I've peaked in the 1030 show seems quiet, most people on the journey cruises are sleeping by then so I'll take note and see and maybe I can start making the late show at the last minute. Ship is getting rocky again.

It was also crew drill day, abandon ship if I recall, so the crew and tenders were otherwise engaged unfortunately.

Carnival 's older ships have real nice theaters. Their newer ships they keep getting smaller and smaller. The better shows worth seeing are on the newer ships and you spend half your night stalking a seat or having a pole in your view. That sounds terrible 😕 😳

At the reg frog pub for the Freedom Rockband Went with absolute mango and lemonade because I don't think I have enough wake hours left to finish a whole bottle of bubbly Brown eyed girl 🎶

The linguine was very nice. The veal was not bad but not as tender as I would like and a tad too salty. For dessert I got the lemon frozen torte 855 My mom got the apple crostata.

Arancini had a nice spicy kick in the sauce. So did the cured tuna. I enjoyed the taste of both. And do I dare say, the presentation was pretty nice on both dishes. I thought about ordering the meatball instead of the tuna but the waiter said they weren't good tonight. Appreciate the heads up and shame on Nonna. For mains I got linguine vongole and Veal marsala 844.

Arancini 825 Cured tuna.

Table assigned at 810. Tonight's menu is a special one for the journey cruise.

Andy just announced we were passing the rock. Big nothing sandwich.

Checking in for dinner at 807 with less than 10 minutes wait.

With this crowd, probably not 😆

Have one last mango and lemonade to finish so I can fill the mobile bar with a bottle of cava.

Guess that groove with Andy. Theater is mostly dark tonight, no production shows. It's this, bingo, and love and marriage.

It was very nice and like most days the weather was perfect.

After I climbed the steps that was as far as I figured I could go. It started to appear to be far too steep to safely go any further. The closest view I could get looking back down towards the harbor. The mountain side seemed fenced off and inaccessible at this point. I nearly blinded myself for this picture and I don't even remember what it was now. I am thinking it was an opera house but I might be misremembering now. Almost back to the pickup stop now. I grew less excited by my aimless wandering as the cruise wore on, but at this point I still really enjoyed my day exploring and seeing the sights of a foreign city and culture that was different than my own.

Like most of the cities I would visit in Europe, Toulon was very walkable. Not too steep as I head towards the mountains. French kitty Climb getting steeper.