TravelBluebird

Thank you for following along! I’ll let you know how the ship feels for a long trip—crowded areas, if there are quiet spots if you need a place to read or have a break; how the food holds up for 15 days.

That is our hope!

You are so welcome! Hugs back from Tennessee!

Your dinner at Alter Native—wow, spectacular! How can you adjust to cruise food after that? And I’m enjoying your photography of all the cities you have visited very much!

I am so sorry about your friend Denise; how terribly sad. Your travels prior to this cruise sound fantastic; I’d love to hear all about them! If you see me around on the ship (short gal with curly red hair, ya can’t miss me!) please come over and say hi!

We are checked in for our flight; someone else we know couldn’t check in because they did not have a return flight, but we were OK. Also checked in to hotel! We are crossing our fingers for our rooms to be ready earlier than 3pm, but we don’t really expect that since all the hotels are so booked up this week.

This is true! I was on a Viking Ocean Cruise once and we had 2 unexpected sea days due to ports that were canceled (European cruise in Winter; sunning out by pool was not an optioon), and there wasn’t much to do, but I was comparing it to Carnival!

Whew, we are back from Grandson’s Birthday Dinner! A fine time was had by all. This is our last chance to be all together for awhile since 2 days after our Venezia trip they leave to visit other Grandmother in Mexico, also for 3 weeks. Then 2 weeks after that, I head to a conference in Seattle, and then to visit my daughter in Japan!! So this is going to be a weird summer. Now I just have to tell my son from Chattanooga all the pet and housesitting instructions when he arrives in a bit tonight, and we are home free to get on that plane tomorrow! Instructions a tad more complicated than usual because we have a new kitten. Indulge me as I share some birthday photos (parents have OKed the share) and 1 photo of our new Norwegian Forest Cat, Loki Maximon. And since this is an extremely weird world we live in, please note that the large sombrero on his head is a birthday tradition at this completely Mexican-American owned restaurant, and Grandson has Mexican heritage. I hate that I even need to point this out, but I do not want to be canceled. Sigh.

We’re back! And that’s excellent! We intend to do sail away in the Terrazza Carnivale area, so hopefully we’ll see you there!

I’l be back a little later tonight—off to my Grandson’s birthday dinner! One of the reasons we didn’t leave earlier for Europe. In the meantime, I just got up my Youtube preview video It’s a little boring—just me talking—since I don’t have any videos yet, but just in case you’re interested in what I’m planning video-wise:

Thank you for coming along, @SenatorsFan

Right? LOL well I always think I don’t get enough time on a ship to do everything I want to, so here’s my chance!

@pcvtmom Great to have you along, and thank you!

There are a fair number of kids on this sailing, for a TransAtlantic! We are hoping to take our GrandKids on a Carnival cruise this coming Spring. And how exciting to be on the first 8 day from New York! Thanks for following along here and also on YouTube for my videos!

I have good friends who will be on the Pride in September! Are you in Barcelona now?

I honestly don’t know what to expect! if we like the ship we are very interested in booking additional itineraries on her, both out of NY and Port Canaveral later.

@jimbri Thanks for reading along!

We are looking forward to meeting you as well! Your photos in Paris were fantastic; haven’t been to France in awhile and it made me want to go back! Great to have wifi on the train; we rarely buy wifi on planes but with 8 hours from IAD to BCN in Economy Plus, we aren’t going to be able to sleep much so will probably get it!

Very nice indeed! Will have to check to see if they come in a dark color, like navy or black. I don’t wear heels very much since I broke my ankle, so a dressy sandal for dinners would be nice!

@LatinaInTexas I am curious to see how that goes as well! 9 nights seems like a good length from New York, especially if you are heading to the Caribbean. I’ve done a 7 day from New York which went to Orlando (Port Canaveral), Freeport and Nassau; 9 days should give you a better itinerary!

Thank you @kelkel2!

@VIFP1987 Glad to have you along for the ride!

@Hogladyrider Thank you and welcome!

Thanks @maxandmolly it’s nice to have you along!

Ooh @Jamman54 21 days! I’m “only” getting 15 on the Venezia! Thanks for following along, and its always great to get multiple perspectives, especially on a new ship!