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Here our some pics of our outside balcony cabin on deck 8. The room still has that new car smell.

We are onboard the Mall of the Seas. Certainly hard to tell you are on a cruise ship without looking outside. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It’s just different.

Boarding was super fast, especially with somehow acquiring EXPRESS BOARDING. Not sure how that happened.

Good news. We are in Miami. Waiting on our Uber. Goodbye airport, hello cruise port.

ROUND #2

Well we pushed back from the gate and moved about 50 yards when the pilot decided that he wanted to change the route due to severe weather in the area. This now requires us to top off the plane with more fuel. Sooo… back to the gate we go.

We are seated and waiting for takeoff!

Good nights folks. Alarms are set and the incoming flight appears to be on time.

Issue was resolved after a phone call to Royal.

So we had the "tiny" Royalup fairy pay us a visit yesterday. We had originally booked a guarantee Surfside balcony, but submitted a bid to upgrade to an Outside Balcony which was accepted for 75.- per person. Not a big win, but we would rather face the ocean. Now we just have to figure out how to change our luggage tags...

All right folks time for an update: Today was packing day and as always lots of stress deciding what to take and what not to. The good news is the mission is 90% accomplished. The next step is to finish off at work tomorrow and sign off for the week. We are committing the proverbial sin of flying to the port on the same day. I know. I know, however, my work schedule is what it is. We do have the first flight out on Saturday morning and it is a non stop from Louisville to Miami. We are schedule to land at 8:36am. So far the weather appears to behaving and let's hope for no travel drama.

Hello fellow cruise aficionados. Yes, it's time for itchintocruise to do a LIVE review again. Stay tuned for additional details. In case you need some additional reading material check out my previous LIVE reviews: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2616173-live-hoho-horizon-and-a-bottle-of-tequila-christmas-cruise-12-23-18/ https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2717481-live-122119-itchintocruise-presents-parrotheads-on-the-panorama/

Guess what? itchintocruise is back to do a LIVE review. Wow, it's been 4 years since our last review on Carnival Panorama. You can check out our reviews below: Link to 2018 Carnival Horizon Review Link to 2019 Carnival Panorama Review We are also introducing itchintocruise.jr to assist in the review. Double the snark. As of now we are scheduled to depart Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday, however Mother Nature may have different plans. Stay tuned for more details....