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Today is a beach day for us. Took a cab to Cabana Beach, rented some loungers and a thatch roof umbrella, and ate currently sampling drinks. Daryl is too young for a blue curaçao mojito Tasty

It is on deck 4 on Symphony. No views from here.

For what it is worth, if anyone is interested, we tied up on the starboard side in both Aruba and Curaçao.

Daryl : Take my picture over there! @Ocean Boy will be so jealous.

Daryl: Please can we have one? It says it can be yours!

So what I do to have the cruise compass on my phone. When you get in your cabin on the first day, there is a QR code on a card. Scan it, and it will open it in a browser window. Then I save it to files on my iPhone, and just add the day to the file name and save it. If you keep that browser tab open, all you need to do is refresh it each day to get the compass for that day. If you don’t have the QR code card, you can enter this while onboard. https://minio.rccl.com/compass/cruisecompass.pdf

The cruise compass for day 5 cruisecompassDay5.pdf

New day, new island. Sailing toward Curaçao.

That was the Ocean View Bar. It is located at J.E. Irausquin Boulevard 41, Oranjestad, Aruba. It is about halfway between the ship and Eagle Beach, or about a 20 minute walk to it.

And now, for the first time ever in a cruise report. If you ever wondered what the inside of the cabin door lock looks like, here it is. I stepped out of our cabin, and found the cover had fallen off. Hmmm, wonder if I could charge Royal for my repair to put the cover back on. Knowing them, they would probably say Daryl made it fall off. 🤣

Not necessarily in order, but I took this yesterday of the soft serve ice cream. I mean, now, it looks like they are using baby cones.

Found the piano player tonight , too

One thing I discovered when I went to order some drinks at schooner bar, was that I was apparently with the wrong woman. I know, I didn’t have that many drinks. But when I pulled out Susan’s card, to order us some drinks, her name had changed to Elizabeth. Evidently, they gave her back the wrong card when we were in the Crown lounge. So we headed off to guest services to get a new card. So now it is maybe good, but it doesn’t open our door. Looks like I will need to make another trip in the morning. I did have them make me a Union Jack Lava Flow at Schooner bar, and they did good with it. Glad I had the recipe with me, because they didn’t have a clue.

Tonight, we had the ice show, 1977. I thought the set and costumes were a little dark for some scenes. Liked the drone opening The Royal guards kept the theme at the beginning The skating was excellent I would be dead if I tried this wheel thing. The middle part was hard to follow, but we enjoyed the music at the end

I missed doing pictures at dinner the last couple nights, but remembered tonight. Asian pork tacos Tiger shrimp Royal chocolate cake. I can say that all the meals we have had so far, have been good. The portions are smaller than in the past, but since I lost so much weight, it has been plenty.

We got one of the thatch roof umbrellas and a couple lounge chairs for $40. The water was warm after we got in, and the views were not bad. Since I saw pictures of snowmen back home, I made a sandman. It must have been popular, because several people stopped to take pictures. The rest of the afternoon involved relaxation.

Decided to walk to Eagle Beach for the afternoon. We found a nice little beach bar along the way for some food and drink. I can confirm that the beach bar loaded rum was very good We had a flatbread veggie pizza And the views were nice.

Aruba today. We didn’t have any excursions booked, so one of the first things we did was seek out an optical place to repair Susan’s glasses. She had lost the nose pad to one side, and we found the ship doesn’t sell any repair kits. So we found this place, just off the ship. They were great. $4 and she was good as new.

Yeah, they rescheduled us for Hiro tonight, and it originally said it would be at 9:00. We got there after we got out of the 1977 show at 8:50, and found they changed the time to 8:30, so it was packed and well underway. We will try another night.

They were little quiches. What a keen eye.

Stopped at the crown lounge briefly. These were their snacks, and they didn’t look too bad.

And here are a few things that were in our cabin that may be of interest

I do need to get back on track, but been out enjoying the day, then off to the show soon. Meanwhile, here is today’s compass cruisecompassDay4.pdf

Daryl, quick, look at the sunrise. We are almost to Aruba. Daryl says he is glad he is not home. And if the elf would get out of the fridge, it might not be as cold.

Yesterday, we ventured to Windjammer for breakfast. After gaining a pound on the first cruise day, I weighed in and found I actually lost a pound since boarding, so time to remedy that. I think the flow in Jammer is better than the earlier O Class ships. Got there around 9am, and it wasn’t crowded, and plenty of empty tables. They did have a nice gingerbread house display outside, near the entrance.