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Ship is rocking slightly, and we are doing 20 knots to make Nassau on Saturday now. Enough motion to bring out the doggie bags. Hiro canceled again tonight and rescheduled for day 8.

No mention, but I assume they will have things cleaned up long before then. Whatever ship that was to be there today was canceled, as is ours tomorrow. Just check their website for itinerary changes.

I can’t believe how many in the theatre were cheering for the change to Nassau. Wish they would have changed to CocoCay. By way of extra info, Labadee was changed because they had heavy rain and flooding that damaged the infrastructure. Blur Lagoon dolphin swim may be fun for the kids. We did that once, but who knows what will be offered. Of course, didn’t they recently have a major incident with the boat that takes you there?

I think I saw enough alcohol spill that it should take care of it. 🥴

I haven’t noticed a difference, anytime we ordered one. Last night, the one we had was not as pink as we like.

Now, I have seen dogs chasing cars on land, but I think this is the first time I have seen one chasing and barking at a scooter on the jogging track.

Pro tip of the day Don’t walk thru El Loco Fresh on a very windy day, unless you want to chance getting hit with a flying plate of beans. It looked like they just got done filming Animal House food fight scene. I felt bad for the clean up crew. No self serve handling of utensils here today. Something must be going on.

Technology update. Starlink is good at times, and bad at times. Had trouble connecting in the solarium for a while. Plugs in the cabin - better than some ships, but rapidly becoming old school. Two usb type A ports at the desk and three us plugs and one European. There is one us plug by the bed, and I haven’t bothered to look under it. It seems technology has moved mainly to usb Type C plugs now. I bought this little gem this summer to charge all our devices. Five usb Type C and two usb Type A plugs. Enough power to charge my iPad, two iPhones, two Apple Watches, and power banks. we have two Anker power banks we bring along to make sure we maintain power while ashore.

Hot tub situation. Max capacity is 24. I think they made it, then some.

Maybe time for some random things, since I am lounging around on this sea day. We have 1,470 kids onboard, under the age of 17. I would have guessed there were more. I don’t know if they counted Daryl in that total. They said to expect more on our Utopia sailing this summer. If I wasn’t adding three to that total, I would avoid that summer sailing.

oh, the dreaded red eye from SFO. My son and his family have a red eye from SFO, so we will pick them up at the airport after we are off the cruise. we always try to avoid red eye flights.

There is something wrong with his driving, because the sun was on the wrong side this morning

Maybe the slow speed is because Daryl is driving

A daily position report for @harryfat1 Only sailing at 17.7 knots this morning.

Before we went to the beach in Curaçao, we had walked around town. A few pictures. Lots of Decorations I always like the colorful buildings The Love Hearts display More decorations across the bridge Walked down to the Curacao sign And the Dushi sign Found this colorful building and our ship An elevated view as we crossed the bridge on the way to the beach

I know it is early to think about departure, but I filled out our departure information and requested the latest time of 9-9:30. So what do they give us? The earliest. Probably because we are doing self assist. I think since they said we can depart “whenever you are ready”, we will be close to last off.

Day 6 cruise compass cruisecompassDay6.pdf

Same here. I have said the same on the post restart cruises.

My son said this today. I told him it was probably no more questions than this guy got, checking into the hotel with his blowup.

We went to Private Stock Headliner Showtime in the theatre. They were a good band, but way, way too loud. We were all the way in the back of the balcony, and I was still getting noise level notifications. When it hit 101 db, we were already on our way out the door. A lot of others left too, and I think it was because of the noise level. Don’t know why Royal doesn’t keep the volume levels lower. Maybe they have stock in hearing aid companies.

Tonight was the first night where we didn’t really see anything we liked on the menu. It was Mexican night. We ordered the chops filet Started with the poblano pepper soup and finished with the apple cobbler

A couple of photos from snorkeling today. Not the clearest water or most colorful fish, but ok for where we were.

I think it was a good decision to come to Cabana beach, instead of Mambo Beach. We walked over to Mambo, which is beside cabana beach, and it was insanely packed. Mambo was where the ship excursion went. Better service and fewer people here. Ready to meet our taxi back. Will have to wait to see if my snorkeling photos turned out.

We are on the port side also, but I also go to the top deck for pictures. All I saw was a sunrise from our balcony

Paninis for lunch, and the mojitos keep flowing. These things are good. water is relaxing too Many more and I may need Daryl to keep me afloat