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This day is dragging!!! Tomorrow will, too, but at least I can load the car or something. All I can do here is either work (yeah, right) or daydream and plan some more.

Since we will be kicking around Galveston Sunday afternoon, I thought I’d find some fun stuff for us to do until time for Jimmy’s. My instincts always lean first to food and drink, so that’s where I started. In my defense, the last time I tried to wander around cool historical buildings in Galveston, I slipped down a flight of stairs and tore my rotator cuff. (Actually, I might have been pushed by a ghost, but I digress.)

Texas Tail Distillery got my attention. 

Fascinating. All of it.

You write the best live blogs 

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NKS1045/history/20200228/1310Z/KDFW/KLAS
 

 

Oh, this is beyond cool.

This looks awesome! We're looking forward to having Allure come to Galveston, and I've always been curious about TA. Thanks for this!

A post on another board got me thinking about my cruise playlist, or rather, my cruise roadtrip to the port playlist. I only play it when I'm driving to Galveston:

• All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
• All Night Long - Lionel Richie
• Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
• Boat Drinks - Jimmy Buffett
• Break for the Border - Acoustic Alchemy
• Cake By the Ocean - DNCE
• Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
• Caribbean Blue - Enya
• Cheers - Rihanna
• City of Dreams - Talking Heads
• Come Sail Away - Styx
• Conga - Miami Sound Machine
• Dance with Me - Orleans
• Deck 9 - Funkagenda
• Drift Away - Dobie Gray
• Escapade - Janet Jackson
• Freedom - Pitbull
• Good Times - Chic
• Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
• Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
• Hey Now Now - Michael Franti
• Holiday - Madonna
• Island Girl - Elton John
• Island in the Sun - Weezer
• Knee Deep - Zac Brown Band
• Kokomo - Beach Boys
• La Isla Bonita - Madonna
• Let’s Groove - Earth, Wind, & Fire
• Livin La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
• Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
• Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes
• Yeke Yeke - Mory Kante
• Orinoco Flow - Enya
• Oye Como Va - Santana
• Runaway - Janet Jackson
• Sail On - Commodores
• Sail on Sailor - Beach Boys
• Sailing - Christopher Cross
• Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
• Seagull - Bad Company
• Shake Shake Senora - Harry Belefonte
• Sinner in the Sea - Calexico
• Smooth - Santana
• Smooth Operator - Sade
• Soak up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
• Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, & Nash
• Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
• Steal My Sunshine - Len
• Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft
• Tik Tok - Kesha
• Totally Nude - Talking Heads
• Un poco de amor - Shakira
• Uptight - Stevie Wonder
• Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
• Where the Boat Leaves From - Zac Brown Band

5 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

Who just has their toothbrush hanging out of a bag like that. I have mine under lock and key. Actually. This is probably weird. I don’t leave my toothbrush out at hotels...or on cruises. 
 

 

🤢

I guess it's a Friday close to Spring Break season, people are starting early. Still ski season, too.

15 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

The lines are real. I decide to use the kiosk to get my bag tag and boarding pass.

 

 

Wow. That is a crap ton of people for 5:30 in the morning. I'm just trying to get my sleepy husband up to go to the gym!

3 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

I get my tag and boarding passes. It says head

to bag drop. I ask the spirit lady where bag drop is and she points to the long line...which now has grow by about 50 people in the time I was at the kiosk. 
 

So let me get this straight. Printing my own stuff didn’t save me any time? It cost me time? She asks for my bag tag and starts putting it on my suitcase. While she’s doing that another lady walks by and says “anyone going to Las Vegas?” I say I am. She takes me to a shorter line. 5 people in front of me.

 

So now I’m waiting in line at security. 5:48 am.

 

 

Nice! It was looking like a rough morning up until this point.

Sir. You are literally at ~my~ Hard Eight. At least you were. I am star-struck. 

Well, I hope work leaves you alone and that you and Harry have a good night's sleep and an easy travel day tomorrow. We'll all be here waiting for the next update!

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

Got some brisket, jalapeño sausage, beans, Mac n cheese and jalapeño sweet corn.

Damn, that looks good.

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

They have a pool and fitness center on the roof. They need a bar up here. If it were New Orleans there would be a bar up here.

 

 

Yep, and a sound system and the pool would light up purple at night. Sigh ...

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

The plan for this evening is check into a hotel next to the airport, grab some food, park my car, and try to get to sleep super early so I can be at the airport at 5am for my 7am flight. 

Woohoo! Happy travels ! ✈️  🚢

58 minutes ago, SG65CB said:

 

Coast Guard inspection times are pessimistic. Unless they have serious issues during the inspection you'll board closer to noon than 2:30. You can check in and then wait until they start boarding. 

 

The inspection will not push back the times the rooms are ready, or the muster drill.

That's the kind of experienced insight I'm looking for - Thanks!!

On 2/25/2020 at 9:05 PM, TheGrandSnackoneer said:

Greg I don't know if you were joking or not but I am so hopped up on cough syrup right now so here goes:

11:10 - In the Heights from In the Heights

19:30 - She Used to Be Mine from Waitress 

22:40 - It's Too Darn Hot from Kiss Me, Kate (I think? I don't know why I get it confused with South Pacific) Never thought I'd hear a rock version of it but I was pretty drunk at the time and thought it was hilarious

31:00 - My Strongest Suit from Aida

36:15 - On My Own from Les Mis

38:15 - You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen

43:05 - You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray

 

There's also a bonus at 25:00. It's technically Gwen Stefani's Rich Girl but that song is a version of If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. Again, I had come straight from Alchemy so I was thrilled.

 

This is very impressive. I think I gave up around the 11:00 mark. @Saint Greg, is this for your blog/reviews, or are you making a cruise playlist?

Cruising on Enchantment out of Galveston on Monday. We got the Key in part because of embarkation day perks (Chops menu in the MDR, carry-on baggage drop-off and deliver to room) and partly because Galveston can be a beast at debarkation.

However ... we've gotten word of a Coast Guard inspection that will push boarding back to 12:00-2:30 (at least). No idea what that will do to the timetable. Like, I don't know, will rooms not be ready until 3:00? Muster at 6:00? I figure we will get to port early anyway and hope the Key helps a little, but the whole lunch and bag drop may be out the window.

Now that I know we will be delayed boarding, I may try and check out the Gumbo Diner for breakfast on Monday. My heart belongs to New Orleans, but this is as close as I can get for now.

I may have made myself hungry ...

6 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

I did the travel notification today as well. I don’t think I did it last time. I don’t use my card in ports. But since i’m going to be using my card in Vegas, L.A., and Long Beach I thought I probably should this time.

What an awesome itinerary. I hope you have a great trip! 

5 hours ago, CatLadyFemme said:

Enjoy! I was on the Enchantment spring break two years ago and LOVED it!

Thank you! I remember your review - it was very helpful!

5 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

 

My situation is they like to deliver my mail when it's held. And sometimes deliver my neighbor's mail to me and vice versa. One time I put the mail hold confirmation page in my mail box so the mail man would get it...he just piled my mail on top of it. Another time at the end of the mail hold period, they delivered me a bundle of someone else's mail. They're the worst.

Annoying! You remind me, though, I should probably call the credit card company and let them know I'll be traveling.

14 hours ago, Namelocg said:

Looking forward to your review. You are not nuts, just badly bitten, but I'm worse. Cruised Oct, Nov, Jan and Feb and have March, May and July to look forward to. As far as rewearing clothes, a small spray bottle of Downy Wrinkle Releaser and one of Febreez work wonders on things you want to wear more than once.

I am jealous and you are a pro!!! Thank you so much. I have the Downy, just need to grab the Febreez.

I've used them around the house, don't remember white patches on my hands, but I'm not the most observant. Do you carry hand lotion with you, or even just a bit of sunscreen when you finish?

Yeah, I got one of those. Washy-washy, I guess? 🤞

3 hours ago, Jam0610 said:

Looking forward to following your review. Wife and I will be on the Enchantment, March 20th. 

 

Have a Great time.

Thanks, you, too!