Rogueperson

Good Morning from here. Google can’t find me but i’m close enough to shore for marine traffic to show me. Last day of the cruise. Day 14 of our Adventure on Adventure. I am finally awake and remembering to do this diamond benefit. on my last Diamond voyage, I’m finally doing this. Next time, we will be Diamond plus.

Rhubarbs was close to Peggy’s Cove. Beaver Tails was near the ship at the waterfront.

Tomorrow’s and last cruise compass.

Here are more pictures from Peggy’s Cove. I didn’t get that many due to the rain. But my wife did.

Hush Party part 2

After Dinner was headliner, Bobbi Brooks Wilson, son of Legendary Jacki Wilson. This was a good show and ending it with Bruno Mars Just the way you are. He nailed it. This is my wedding song to my wife so it hit hard.

Driving in today’s rain through unfamiliar roads took a lot out of me. I passed out after drying off. I thought the show was at 7 so i woke up and went down to get seats. I was wrong. So I just hung out in the Viking Crown aka Blue Room.l until dinner. It will always be the Viking Crown to me. Dinner menu Shrimp and potato salad. Caprese Salad. They don’t have nearly as much fresh mozzarella as they used to. And of course, there’s a lobster night. and i got the molten chocolate cake. Its good but Carnival had a lock on this dessert unfortunately.

One thing I should note. Canada seemed to be much more affordable. Especially taking into account the exchange rate between US and Canadian dollar. I was consistently spending more or less 100 bucks for lunch in the US for two. (Boston, Bar Harbor and Portland) but in Canada, it was closer to 65 dollars… Canadian. 47.30 USD The Poutine i got in St. John was 13.00 which is the same price as a great poutine place near me. But st. John was in Canadian dollar which would translate to 9.46 USD making the cheapest best poutine i’ve had. Also, it was easily larger than the place at home. As of this writing, I would highly suggest obtaining Canadian dollars to visit. In the past, everything felt expensive until you take into account the current 1:1.37 USD to CAD ratio. Most of the tourist places will take your cash without saying anything about the exchange rate.

After Peggy’s Cove, we found this place for lunch. Its about two miles away from Peggy’s Cove in Indian Harbour. Menu I succeeded in my quest to find Donair with the Donaitor Pizza. Delicious find. Although I did not get a picture, my wife discovered it is possible to get a gluten free Fish and Chips that tasted amazing. In fact this restaurant excels in gluten free offerings. Dessert is the sea salt caramel chocolate pate’ also gluten free. My search for a Beaver Tail unfortunately ended in failure. No reason given for closure. I didn’t have reliable data or I would have found their store page on fb which told me they were closed due to rain. Could not find anywhere else to find beaver tails so this is a failure. It may not look like it in the photos, but it has been a downpour all day.

At some point, tender tickets stop being necessary. Hence the reason why i spaced on it. If you have a royal excursion, you do not need one. Your excursion ticket is your tender ticket. If you don’t care when you get ashore, you also don’t need it as they will at some point stop calling them and allow anyone who wants to go ashore to do so. Its solely to keep the debarkation process for the first 2 hours or so manageable. I heard about the long line from my tablemates. I did not expect to get group 1. It all worked out and I know for next time now.

This is new to me. What was the cost of this?

I totally missed it in the cruise compass on day 3. Oh well. Even after all this time, the cruise compass is important.

there was a time the day before, but i wasn’t sure where it was noted. Our tablemates told me about it.

i seriously lucked out. There were two times to get tickets. I was not aware of the first time which took place the day before. I woke up at 6:30am to get in line to get tickets day of and they had #1 available surprisingly. It was in front of the MDR on deck 4. One of my cruise compass had the announcement.

Weatherwise, Halifax is the worst of the trip. Its been a constant rain since i left the car rental. Here is our chariot. Not the Camaro from Boston, but ya know, I like this better. Better visibility and boy do we need it. Peggy’s Cove is about an hour away. I thought it was only 20 minutes, but it was 20 MILES. The roads are tiny and with the rain, its a bit treacherous, but we made it. Its not very big.

Good Morning from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Its a cloudy foggy day. Calls for intermittent showers.

Last thing tonight. Tomorrow’s cruise compass.

After dinner, we did two things. The Naughty Trivia was a lot of fun. The Red Party. It was a little disappointing. The music wasn’t loud enough or the acoustics didn’t work. But also as you can see, not well attended. Good idea, but didn’t work. It might have worked better last leg, but i don’t think they had it.

Tonight’s menu Asian Pork Tacos. It was a decent. Salmon Tartare. Not so great. Steak Diane cooked perfectly and tasted wonderful. This wasn’t exactly a tiramisu but the Tres Leches was decent.

Sea day, Lazy day. After winning Star Wars Trivia, we chilled until the production show, Can’t stop the rock. The lead female singer nailed Whitney Houston. However, the men butchered Prince. My wife remarked “why don they hate Prince on this ship”

They are having a Red Nightclub Experience onboard tonight. I haven’t seen that since my cruise on Anthem in 2016.

Woot. We won the Star Wars Trivia. This prize as well as the normal highlighter. Its a bag.

I’ve got nothing.

Today’s cruise compass

I keep answering 1/2 of your questions. I found it easy to get around. But then again, I’m generally good with directions. The good thing with all the ports except for Boston so far is that the ship lets you out right downtown. You exit the ship and you’re in the heart of everything more or less.