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Ship time is... I'm not sure. Or Let's go with the hard clock.

Early signs of the day.

The vast majority of my pics are straight from my Samsung Galaxy S22U so I could keep it live as it was happening. The stars and moon pics, plus the bird session was a Sony A7R4 with a 14mm or 70-300mm.

MDR dinner menu

Our 10 night showed up later. Some had booked 2 x 5 night but later canceled them as the 10 night was cheaper.

Starlink report The Starlink experience is best summarized in two tests. One test abysmal, the next test better. One guest who is lucky gets their session during a good moment, another user catches casino luck and has a bad moment and therefore a bad experience. During these tests our gateway city was in Texas.

Day 13 - Puerto Vallarta (noon arrival) Progress report

Mark from the UK. Enrichment talk on all ports and the Panama Canal.

The other potential risk with removing a 3rd guest from a triple cabin is that Royal could move you to a double cabin so the triple could be sold to a new party of three. With a no show they can't do that but if there are months to go they can and will.

Port fees and taxes are refunded in all cases of a guest not sailing. Remove them or no show. Same.

All going on right now. Aaron Pollock in the Pub JuLe DUO in the Centrum Top Notch Band in the Colony Club Gerardo in the Schooner Bar Puck in the theater

New slot machines going in.

I lied earlier. The gyro pool tables are gyroing. Slight, subtle motion tonight and the gyro tables are compensating.

Missed the sunset so these golden hour pics will have to do.

As long as one person from the original booking remains in each cabin you can change the other guests. Since you are after final you could also just deal with it on board.

The Magic of Puck in the theater tonight. Live music in Schooner, Pub, Colony Club and Centrum. No shortage of stuff going on.

Giovanni's OssoBucco Very tender, fall off the bone kind of tender.

After Mary stood me up dinner last night, it's back to Giovanni's for dinner.

Day 13 Cruise Compass RD Day 13 cruisecompass.pdf

"That human is pretty big but his man satchel smells pretty good"

"Not today satan!" "Ugh. I missed!" "No fish for you!"

"Dude! Right in front of you!" "You missed!" "Seriously dude I could have gotten that blindfolded"

With the rules of the game wide open for interpretation, a pod of dolphins got in on the action.

These two birds were on patrol together. All a sudden the one on the right did a dive into the ocean. He must have been hot and wanted to cool off. Turns out he was pretty eager to win the game. Success! He kissed a fish! Wait a minute, he's not playing fair. He's eating the other team! With his tail feathers still draggin in the ocean that fish was done like dinner. Eager to be the best on his team, the bird went back on patrol skimming the ocean.

While the crew vs. guest volleyball game was playing out on deck 11, the bird vs. fish game was playing out in the Pacific Ocean. The object of today's game was for the birds to kiss a fish. Team fish today consisted of the flying fish team. These little guys: Fish win the game when they make it back into the ocean without being kissed by a bird.