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Someone in our sailing fb group said the Pride will have a sauna and showers but they aren't working and why they were working on them...and why I couldn't get in there.

Today was Lisbon! Love ❤️ 😍 💖 Portugal! We went to sintra. Did private tour booked through viator. E.hello tours. Was amazing!!!! Went to so many places.

That would have been a great idea. I wish I would have thought to ask about it.

I think my phone autocorrected that and I didn't catch it because I actually love the Monkees and probably text about them more than actual monkeys. Or maybe my brain did that. I used to watch the Monkee's show on Nickelodeon back when Nickelodeon played classic shows. I loved them and NKOTB when I was like ages 5 to 9. Then, later, N'Sync. Never like the Backstreet Boys. Jonas Brothers were after I was already too old to be into boy bands...although, now (as adults) I actually like their music better.

Couldn't get into the locker rooms. They were doing construction on them. I don't think there will be saunas from what I could see. This is as much as I could see. Booked a 75 minute massage and my treatment room was next to the construction zone while construction was going on. Unfortunately, I didn't know ahead of time before I booked. I asked if they could turn on music to drown out the noise and was told no because of "IT issues." Left my relaxing massage with a headache...that's probably partially my own issues because I have construction ptsd after our 18-months, 300k remodel that was supposed to cost 150k and be done in 3 months. Still, sort of feel like they should warn customers because no one expects to hear tile saws, drilling, hammering, and the screeching of metal during their spa treatment.

It isn't there. No David at all.

Monkeys seem unphased by us humans.

St. Michael's Cave:

They are unloading building materials outside of my room right now. Guessing this is from the dry dock.

I don't know. They don't have popcorn on the Pride yet. I was eating a sandwich. Lots of things aren't up and running yet because this is the first sailing post dry dock.

Also, I was kind of disappointed that there weren't more monkees...but I am thinking that maybe we did not go to the right place even though we went to "Ape's Den." There were no monkees at Ape's Den. We saw 3 at the top of the rock and maybe 5 at the St. Michael's Cave. So, you might want to take an excursion just to do that if you really want to see the monkess. SMC was neat, too, and had a cool light show you could watch.

Top of the rock of gibraltar

Fyi - the strange bus was the route 1 bus

We bought a city bus pass and then the cable car up and down with passes to a the attractions in the Nature Reserve. We did the cable car up, did the sky walk, hiked to the top of the Rock, did St. MICHAEL'S cave, the ape's den, the suspension bridge, and the Moorish Castle. The ww2 tunnels were clclosed. By the time we got down to the Moorish Castle, there was no need to ride the cable car down because we were almost back in town so we took a pseudo-bus back to the ship. (It was a van and not a bus but was on the bus route.) This was a lot of walking but we enjoyed ourselves. I would not recommend hiking to the top of the rock from the cable car and then back down to town if you are over 40 and in less than grear shape (i.e. me) as I am pretty sure I am going to be hurting tomorrow. The top of the rock was amazing, though! Our bus ride back was...interesting. The bus was like 30 minutes late and then the driver got out and talked on his phone for 10 minutes while the only other passenger got out and smoked a cigarette. Then she put out her half-smoked cigarette but carried it back in the van with her...I guess saving it for later. Let me also add she had her face made up like the character from The Rocky Horror picture show. The driver was blaring 90s rap and rapping along with it. It was quite entertaining...especially considering our bus ride there was so normal...and on an actual bus rather than a van. Going to get a massage tonight to work out those kinks from walking so much. As for the boat, the violinists are amazing! Many things still not working like the slides but I guess that is to be somewhat expected. Food is mostly decent. First night in mdr was bad, but last night was good. Guys and the deli are excellent.

Gibraltar

I will try to check it out.

My kid and I were watching a Dive-in Movie and I was made to leave mid movie because there was "no eating allowed in the pool AREA." Worker told me no food even on the blue loungers. We were not in the pool and not in swimsuits. I was told that if I was in the outside area of the Lido with food, I could ONLY eat at a table. Is this a new rule or did I just run into an overzealous staffer? It's not a huge deal and I understand about no food in the pool...but it just seemed weird to me since I have often seen people sitting on blue loungers with food and on other ships they even sell popcorn for the Dive In movies. (Don't seem to have that up and running yet on the Pride.)

Really having a good time on this cruise. Soooooo much better than last year. Oh, And I won some pro beats ear pods in the arcade on the punching game. 👊

Cycling studio and pic from the outside.

Gym looks nice. Equipment all new.

@kwokpot All new equipment in the gym

My wifi in my room sucks. What floor are you on? We are on 6. I am about to go up to the lido to see if I can get better wifi. Having better luck on cell service than on wifi.