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My son and his family flew to Hawaii for their winter school break this week. It looks like they are having much better weather there, instead of the new storms in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, I am here in the snow doing taxes. I need a getaway about now.

Daughter and her family went to the Titanic Artifact Exebition yesterday. Everyone was give a passenger ticket with the name of an actual passenger. I heard the grandkids were asking if their cabin on Utopia would be like this one. It looks like they had prices comparable to Royal. it looks like it was an interesting exhibit.

Not sure if this is current, but this is the bar menu with costs of drinks. https://britsonaship.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/bar-menu-princess-cruises.pdf

Congratulations! Glad to hear they are doing well. He is close to my son’s birth weight. He was born 5 weeks early and came in at 5lb 9oz.

I believe I read that if you have the Plus package, which covers alcoholic drinks up to $15, you can still get that more expensive $17 or $20 drink. You just pay the difference, plus gratuity on the additional amount.

@Ocean Boy , Susan and I would also be happy to share our experiences as well. Excellent letter.

If you have never been to Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor, it is worth the trip. Portions are huge. Just do a search for it. It is listed in Dania Beach, but I think it is part of the Hollywood area.

Shenango Lake, a COE lake, so water level is low this time of year.

Winter here too, but not enough to make hearty campers break down their tent. Only got about 3” of snow.

I read on another thread that only the first few sailings on Sun have dining reservations available. They may be waiting until the ship gets her first voyage in, before opening up other sailings.

Some of Verizon’s plans let you earn International coverage. I think they earn something like 1 day a month. That is what is on 3 of the 4 phones on our account. My plan, I have free Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ as my benefit. All of them have hot spots. So, depending on your plans, you can get those days without their card.

Getting caught up today, and was sorry to read this. Prayers to your family.

Saw both, and enjoyed both of them.

It appear they did have a buffer built in, but not a large enough one for this first ship in the class. They were originally supposed to take possession in December 2023, but obviously something impacted that schedule. They simply had to know well in advance, and they probably did, but made the decision to try and rush things at the end. I wonder if anyone is looking at the schedule of the Star, because if it follows the same trajectory as the Sun, those August 2025 cruises would be wishful at best. They did the keel laying for Sun on June 8, 2022, and didn’t have float out until March 8, 2023. Here we are, almost a year later until the, now revised, inaugural sailing. Star just had the keel laid on December 11, 2023, which would put the float in mid September this year. Tack on the same schedule after float out, and you are looking at the end of August, 2025, but inaugural is being sold for August 4th.

They show up when using my phone, but not when using my iPad.

RCL had two months from the date they took possession of Icon until the first revenue sailing. Even then, not everything was 100% ready, and they sailed at reduced capacity. I would expect Sun will still be working through issues through sailings in May.

Haven’t seen you on here for a while. I thought maybe you got your RV out and went camping. This campground is open year round, and those full time campers have been lucky with no snow. This one has a nice setup with a starlink antenna. It was 17° last night, so these win the hearty camper award.

Any recent updates on the ship? Do we know if it is going to get a car, instead of something like that dog sculpture on icon?

Still not on my end either. CC found a few more to send me. I went from 863 to this number. Greg, glad the surgery was a success. Really hated to see that about the end of the parade. I hope they are able to find some answers to this senseless act. I am not counting them out just yet. She was fever free for 24 hours, which was required for her to return to school, so she made it back today. SIL made it to work today, so he must be fever free also. My guess is they will make Friday’s dance if they do not have a relapse. Just hoping my daughter does not get it. They did have an update that they had 3 in custody, but they also updated the number shot. Sadly, it included several children.

Are you going to be posting about your NY trip somewhere?

I now have 863 to wade through when I get time.

Feb 18 was canceled last night, hence my question. How many more will be canceled?

Is that going to be the new inaugural cruise now? The way things are going, maybe the app and the ship will have the problems worked out by then.

Blame it on autocorrect and AI.

This is such a rare thing for Royal to do. We had that on our cruise too, but that may have been only the second time in all of our Royal cruises. More common of Celebrity and Princess, at least that has been our experience in warmer ports. And the cooling towels are always refreshing.