LACruiser88

Good morning Hilo! 🌸

It was great meeting you guys and having you as table mates! 🙂

Lunch was FANTASTIC!!!

On our way to dinner last night...

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For my fellow wine aficionados below are 4 bottles that we brought from home for this voyage. Btw, we have been Carlisle members for many years and Mike is a great guy!

We have a decent size cellar consisting of most varietals, approximately 2,000 750 ml's, 300 1.5 L's. When it comes to Petite Sirah's (P.S.), we are now drinking our 2012 P.S.'s from Carlisle in Sonoma. They are just now coming into their own and will have at least 10 more years before they peak. Not all wines are of the same quality and the Spellbound P.S. is definitely one specific wine that should be consumed when young.

Yes, Vines is the only venue where we have found this to be possible. We always finish the bottle at Vines, I know we are such big wino's! On this voyage we have found the wine selections to be much, much better than what we have recently seen on the ship's. Perhaps they finally paid their suppliers, as there is no shortage of wines on the open market. Tonight we will try something different! 🍷🍷🍷

We have the Princess Plus Package. With wines within the Plus limits you can usually get a full bottle and they will "charge" your Package a total of 5 drinks (split between the 2 of us, 3 towards my limit and 2 towards my DW's). You have to have a good Vines bartender that will do this for you. 🍷

After 4 days of mostly cool and cloudy skies, the sun has arrived! The pool is hopping! We arrive in Hilo on Wednesday.

On the Emerald two days from Hawaii...

@chubbypiggy The sauna/steam (The Enclave) is no longer free. It is $299 pp for the entire voyage.

Morning of day 5. A bit warmer, no breeze, calm seas. There are definitely more folks at the pool at this hour, 8:30 am.

Thank you for taking the time to tell us about your experience! We will be on the Enchanted for our 1st time on the Nov 12th, 26 day Med/TA.

Tonight's quaff, Spellbound Petite Sirah.

Looks like a room service delivery, except for the pizza.

I thought I would do another speed test now that we are in the middle of the Pacific.

@Cruise frenzy The top three passengers on this voyage: #1- 2,842 sea days #2- 1,457 sea days #3- 1,152 sea days The cut-off for the MTG Luncheon was 585 sea days.

Morning of Day 4. Still overcast, breezy and cool. At least the seas are calm.

I will check tomorrow morning, just returned to our cabin from my daily workout in the Fitness Center. Debbie is going to the 8:15 am Zumba class in the Vista Lounge.

Can someone change the DRO on the Emerald from Rui to Carlos Marques. For some reason the copying of the chart is not working for me onboard. Thank you!