Sea Dog

It’s Lobster Night!! Always a crowd favorite Lobster tail night is something I always look forward to. Pre dinner cocktail always a Old Fashioned. Assistant Waiter Dwayne knows me and our reservation time. After I sit down within a couple of minutes a Old Fashioned is brought to me. Escargot again. I never tire. I also got a shrimp cocktail. No pic you know what it looks like. Tonight with the Lobster tail we went with the up-charge on a Chops filet. It’s not there big 9oz but it looked bigger than the petite 6oz. It’s a $16.95 up charge and comes with baked potato and veggies. Sorry for bad focus didn’t get the focus scare pushed. One Lobster Tail. Two Lobster Tail. And not pictured Three Lobster Tail and Four Lobster Tail. Yes I was a pig. I normally don’t eat that much but in a effort to give you an accurate reporting. Yes! you can have as many tails as you want. I’ve heard of people eating 6-8 tails no problem. And for dessert Warm Chocolate Moulten Cake with ice cream. It was like eating at Chops without the Chops price. This was our last dinner in the MDR. We will eat at Sabor on our final night. So final thoughts on the MDR. Remember I am not a food critic. Food taste is subjective. What I may like someone else may not. I thought every meal was very good. The only dish I did not care for was the Chicken Parmesan. Food was hot, well seasoned and served in a timely manor. The service from waiter Eka and assistant waiter Dwayne was outstanding. I hope I tipped them well. The ability to have the same waitstaff helps build not only a relationship but a friendship. We truly left the week feeling like we made new friends. We all agreed that we hope to see one another again. All the dinners were about an hour and a half from time we sat down to leaving. You don’t have to worry about leaving hungry. You can order as much as you want. Gluttony is encouraged here. You are paying for it so why not have it all. So last Month we had the UDP. How does it compare? It doesn’t, two different animals. The specialty restaurants serve a particular style of food where it may be Italian or Japanese. The MDR tries it hand at everything for the most part. Will I still go to specialty restaurants? Yes when I want that type of food. But if you want a good meal and you don’t want to pay extra the MDR or just eating in the windjammer may be your best option. In a future review I’ll do one on just the WJ. But until then, I was extremely happy with the food. The Main Dining Room has something for everyone. Come hungry and leave full. After all isn’t that what a restaurant should do? Ok what to do about a food coma? Cocktails?????

Basically a highball glass. Has a thick bottom.

Unless I come over! 😜

Thanks I’ve been pleased so far. I need to do some more playing around. Sure is nice to take good pictures with something small that fits nicely in your pocket.

Thanks for sharing your story. The ER doc says he sees this kind of thing all the time. I’m glad you are ok. I’ll be fine but it will take a little time. Linda will do most of driving going home. But I can drive with one arm. Wow your husband is a real trooper. Jury is still out when or if I will do my other knee. My knee was hurting today. I was so happy to sail on Liberty for one of her last sailings out of Galveston. She may be dated but she was clean and we experienced no problems. I would like to sail on her again.

In 5 cruises on Royal Caribbean there is one thing that I have never done on a ship. I can now cross off “The Cone.”

Now you know some of my tricks for artistic license. 😉

Thanks it comes and goes. Right now I’m hurting pretty good. Glenfiddich is trying to help.😉

Way to go Royal! You deliver an invitation to my stateroom for the new Icon of the seas yesterday saying it was tomorrow. I show up today with about 30 other people to only find out it was yesterday. Back to bar I go. Glenfiddich on ice.

No problem on Liberty Deck 9 Cabin 9404.

Rum Old Fashioned It’s 5 O’clock somewhere.

thats very cool!!

Schooner Bar killing time before the Icon of the Seas unveil presentation. Rum Runner nice and sweet but need a bottle of water in between some sips.

What do you think John @John&LaLa?? Do you think they will give me a good deal?

Big line for the start of Bingo. Someday I’ll play. Who all plays Bingo? Let me know.

Regular speed.

Flow Rider Slo Mo test of the new iPhone 14 Pro Max. Thank you unknown rider @A&L_Ont was unavailable for the making of this video. Original clip was 30 seconds but when uploaded turns out to be over 3 minutes long.

I wish. It’s called Luminar AI.

Test of the new iPhone 14 Pro Max stabilization in Cinematic mode.

Ship has some nice rocking and rolling. 3-4 foot swells.

Eggs Bhurji for breakfast in the MDR. Oh how I love this dish.

So true. I’ll guess I’ll resort to this. 😉😉😉

Thanks you are right that in order to get a long exposure night sky stability is the key. I’m trying a variety of approaches. It looks like photo editing may be my best hope. I just wish my camera could capture what I saw last with my naked eye. It was a great night sky with tons of stars and I could even see one far way galaxy.

I need to play with it. I see where it does the 3 second exposures. I tried a 30 second photo on the go pro and it turned out bad. I don’t know if it’s me or just the cameras can’t do a long enough exposure on a moving ship to capture anything worthwhile. I know Twangster with his cameras can get some incredible starscapes.

The only thing that had been a little wonky is that sometimes the internet will just kick off and you will see you have no connection. Easily solved by reconnecting but I’m not sure what is causing it. At one point yesterday in the MDR, CC was not loading fast at all even when I had good internet speed. I’m not sure why.