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I don’t think it has been mentioned here, but how do the reservations for the main dining room work? We typically like set, fixed dining at a share table, so that looks like it would be deck 6. It is too early for us to book dining, so I was just curious how this worked. Can you specify deck, time and table size on the app? Our last Princess sailing was just before they introduced medallions.

Safe travels home. That week flew by. Thanks for taking us along.

Happy birthday to your granddaughter!🎉🎉🎂🎂

@dani negreanu Dani, let me add my Happy Birthday wishes to you! 🎉🎉🎂🎂

Yesterday, we enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day buffet lunch at our favorite deli. Ruben sandwich, fish and chips, Shepherd’s Pie, and corned beef and cabbage. The corned beef and cabbage was the most tender I ever had. Ended up going back more than once for it. They also had some delicious desserts, but I barely had room for the Apple crumble. They had this early, since they aren’t open on Sunday.

That is just wrong! It looks like there is a large “splash zone” with that method too. Droplets out on the plate and tablecloth, and who knows how much more.

Yeah, but I like that holder and glasses. I could see that sitting on my bar at home.

Now, this looks interesting. From one of the LIVEs I am following on the Princess boards. Wonder if I will be able to order them individually, and have it covered under my package?

She couldn’t be a serious girlfriend, unless she got an official Daryl’s Crew shirt. Seven of these just came today. Back Front Yeah, all these years of cruising, and we will be one of “those” families with matching shirts. 🤣🤣

Love that little dinner show at Le Petit Chef.

When I first glanced at this, I thought someone put a Mrs Butterworth bottle on the shelf. 😏

If I understand what you have done, is you took your pictures of their cruise compass all on the same date (say March 10), and you want to have them ordered with the photos taken on their actual dates (say March 2, March 3, etc.) What you may want to try, is to change the date on the pictures of their cruise compass, to match the date of the pictures you want them to display with. I use Apple products, but one of these methods may work with your Galaxy. On my iPhone, if I swipe upon the photo, it gives a basic list of metadata. On mine, it gives me an option there to adjust the date and time of the photo. If you have that option available on Galaxy, adjust the date of the cruise compass photo to the date of the photos you want it ordered with. Then, when you sort on date taken, or date modified (depending on how it works on your Galaxy) they should be in order. If your photos app doesn’t give you the option to modify the dates, you could look at an app like EXIF viewer. It will let you modify dates, as well as many other attributes in photos. Hope one of these works for you.

Happy birthday to your grandson Brody. All of our grandkids had those smash cakes for their first birthdays. I will say that those years fly by.

Our house is in the path, so we don’t need to go anywhere. Just waiting to see if any of the local bars start offering total eclipse drinks. School kids get out early to watch it, so it is possible we may end up with our grandkids for the event.

Chuck Norris is 84 today. It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. And for those that celebrate, it is π day. 🥧 Here is one for @Ozark_Kid

Happy birthday to Pauline tomorrow. 🎉🎉🎂🎂

Hope you don’t mind I broke my comments into two separate posts. We will definitely get a boarding day photo with everyone, although we will just use our free D+ photos to get our copies. If you remember my December Live, we had Daryl the floating pool llama along with us. He will also be with us on Utopia, and we had matching family t-shirts made with Daryl’s Crew for our boarding day picture. The grandkids insist he must come along. Thanks for your info on the Disney Parks. I have found a few of those sites, and have been researching. We are at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge for the week, and we do have the dining plan. As luck would have it, they were giving it free if you were a Disney+ subscriber. Since I have Disney+ as a perk of my phone plan, that was a good deal. I have a list of the restaurants we want, but those can’t be booked till 60 days out now. Park hours are released at 75 days, so I will have to see which ones have early access hours to plan what days to be at each park. They now have lightning lanes and virtual queues for rides, instead of fast pass. Now I have to figure how to get my watch synchronized to score a virtual queue in the ten seconds, or so, before they are gone for the day. Have my list of rides for each park that we want to try to get, but it still looks like we will have lines to wait in. From what I have read, I already think I prefer the way Universal was with their fast passes.

Yeah Harry, a few hiccups on the launch of the Sun. They are doing the initial sailings in Europe, before bringing it to Ft. Lauderdale this fall. The inaugural cruise was to be a 10 day sailing on February 8th. Princess cancelled it with 10 days notice and said the second sailing on the 18th would be the new inaugural. They cancelled the 10 day sailing of the 18th, giving passengers only a 4 day notice. The problem was, many were flying to Europe and had quite a few non-refundable items like hotels, airfare, etc. So the third cruise, which was now the new inaugural set sail on the 28th, and many of the venues on the ship were still under construction during that sailing. They had some issues with leaking pipes that flooded one of the decks, so things were not going smoothly for that sailing. They are now on the next sailing, and some of the kinks are slowly getting worked out. They still have some venues that are incomplete, and it has been reported that some may not be available until April. I am sure this is not the launch that Princess had hoped for, and there were lots of comparisons to how smooth the Icon launch was. Sun looks like a nice ship, and the new Sphere class is different than other Princess ships we have sailed. It is about the size of Odyssey.

If someone finds out that they are related to Mr. Rogers….. and their wife finds out she is related to Mr. Rogers…. does that mean that cousins married? Asking for a friend!😁😁

Out to dinner tonight, and stopped at the Blackout Burger Bar, because someone was craving a burger. I guess it was because of too much healthy eating lately. My burger was piled high. Yes, that is bacon in there too. Bacon makes everything better.

Safe travels, and have a great cruise.

Another fantastic report, as always Harry. I will be looking for your next installment next January. By then, I may have two more lives under my belt. One will be a family one, when we take all our grandkids on Utopia, along with my daughter and her husband. That will be a different type of cruise for us, having young kids along. Then, we extend our Florida time to take our California grandson to Disney parks for a week. Lots more planning to do for Disney, so I may tag you for a few tips. Second live will be the new Sun Princess which we are on the first sailing after new year. Hopefully their disastrous launch will be far in the rear view mirror by then. Have a great time on your NYC vacation with the family.

What it looks like at my house, so far this morning. It is 32°, with a winter storm advisory. One last chance to go…..

Here in the US, our Mother’s Day is May 12th. Happy Mother’s Day to all celebrating today.

@grapau27 Graham, I was sorry to read that Sarah’s father passed away. Condolences to the family.