Thanksgiving Freedom Cruise 2017...Lots of Pics

I am enjoying the review! Love your photos! Your kids are ADORABLE. I do have to agree with you on desserts...they may look good but most of them are awful. I'll take the fruit...they can't suck the flavor out of that can they? And congrats to your Houston Astros. I'm a Cubs fan myself but once my boys were gone I was so happy yours won. I love how you guys represent your team with your shirts!!! When we travel everyone asks if we are from Chicago because we own more Cubs merchandise than the CUBS do ROFL. I have to say your photos made me miss some of my favorite " on board foods" !!!

Here is the Thanksgiving/Formal night menu

The girls started with some New England Clam chowder

I think she liked it

DW and I started with some crab cakes which were very good

I am enjoying the review! Love your photos! Your kids are ADORABLE. I do have to agree with you on desserts...they may look good but most of them are awful. I'll take the fruit...they can't suck the flavor out of that can they? And congrats to your Houston Astros. I'm a Cubs fan myself but once my boys were gone I was so happy yours won. I love how you guys represent your team with your shirts!!! When we travel everyone asks if we are from Chicago because we own more Cubs merchandise than the CUBS do ROFL. I have to say your photos made me miss some of my favorite " on board foods" !!!

Thanks...we are Minnesota Twins fans at heart but when they lose out have to represent the new hometown. As I write the review it makes me miss the food and makes me keep looking how many more days until the next cruise haha

The girls had the Fusili and mushroom cream sauce this was very good

Since it was Thanksgiving and all we figured they should get a turkey plate as well

I thought long and hard hmm turkey dinner or shrimp and filet mignon. Ya I didn't think much about it all

The filet was delicious

Tonight's dinner menu which I must say was disappointing for Thanksgiving

This was the pumkin gingerbread dessert thing and too much chocolate for me...good thing I had my butter pecan ice cream

Then those famous words ladies and gentlemen Showtime

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After dinner we went up to the lido deck to see if they had traditional pumpkin pie or pecan pie which they didn't but they did have some cool carvings

I believe we ended up going to a comedy show which was decent then back to the room to find out towel animal and rest up for another seaday tomorrow

We woke up a little after 7 on our last full sea day. We wanted to go mini golfing right away as it usually isn't busy early in the morning

Everything was quiet up on the sports deck

The girls picked out their clubs

Off to the course we went

The girls had fun

Shot of the whale tail up close

After all that hard work we decided we should grab some food...a burrito from Blue Iquanna

Some cottage cheese and a variety of rolls

The girls both wanted more cereal

This is the crown vanilla's I was talking about earlier amazing

Terrific narrative and photos.

Keith

Terrific narrative and photos.

 

Keith

Thanks

After some breakfast it was up to deck 5 to let the girls dance to some music and relax

The casino was pretty quite this morning

We were now off to the Cat in the Hat Breakfast. You have to make reservations and pay $5 per person to attend this. It is well worth the money especially with kids

Waiting to get seated

We got to our table in which they have many decorations

The oldest checking out the menu

Can you tell the little one was excited

Here is the menu:

The girls got to take pictures with thing 1 and thing 2

Next came the Cat in the Hat for pictures

Picture with cat in the hat

Ice sculpture that was melting

More of the decorations they had setup

The oldest had the leaning stack of pancakes

I went with the steak and eggs with double steak because this was the last time I was going to be able to get it

The little one went with fruit loops french toast

DW had the green eggs and ham which the girls wrinkled their nose at but I believe ended up eating almost half of it

They also shared some waffles

The strawberry parfait for dessert was delicious

The girls each trying the green eggs

Then it was time for the waiters to perform a dance in which they were all dressed up with Thing tshirts

The last character to come out for pictures was Sam I am

The girls got autographs from everyone which in reality was a stamp

After the Cat in the Hat Breakfast we took the girls to Camp Ocean for some playtime.

On the way back to our room we did a tour of Cherry on Top since the kids were not with.

DW decided to rest in the room. I took a trip up to the whirlpool inside the gym area. This is very relaxing and has a hot tub and a pool that is very warm. I relaxed in there for a while but did not get any pictures, then it was back to room. DW and I decided to go to the Seaday Brunch right before it shutdown since the kids were still at Camp Ocean.

We tried the popovers which many people say are amazing however we did not find them good at all

I had some fried chicken mac n cheese which was pretty good

I also had the Hey Pork Chop and yes it was just as good the second time...only 305 more days til I get to enjoy that again

DW tried the pasta thing which she was not that big of a fan

She also tried the spicy diablo...it was good but very spicy

We had the banana cream pie for dessert which is very good

DW got the chocolate brownine thing but it was too much chocolate

After that I went to get the girl's from Camp Ocean...they had lots to talk about as there was a magician there. We walked by the ice cutting while heading to lido buffet

The chocolate extravaganza was going on so the girls had to get some stuff

I tried a few things but no chocolate fountain for me

Before heading back I had to check out the buffet and the last sea day they have these egg rolls that remind me of Chili's southwest egg rolls and are delicious along with some chicken tenders

The girls requested to get one more dose of mac n cheese before the end of the cruise

When we got back to the room the girls had a surprise waiting for them. The mom and daughter the oldest played yahtzee with had sent treats to the room from the candy shop

We got our debarkation tags and letter as well. With FTTF we would be one of the first people off the ship in the morning

Here is a pic of the hop on hop off trolley map from in Key West

There was some trivia in the Atrium so we headed down to that after getting dressed for dinner

Attempted pic of us

We were getting closer to home as you start to see things in the water

Off to the tasting bar before dinner

The pepper pot was very good the sweet potato thing wasn't too bad actually

Last dinner in the main dining room

The little one started with some mango cream soup. I think she tried all the cold soups but nothing compared to her strawberry soup

Here was the item the oldest had talked about all the time leading up to the cruise....frog legs

I tried the steamed mussels and realized I was not a fan

The bbq chicken flatbread is one of the better appetizers

DW had some shrimp cocktail

Here was the oldest trying her frog legs and that was all she had of them haha.....none of cared for them we had them on some of our cruises 5 plus years ago and they were delicious then

The oldest asked for mac n cheese and they brought her a huge bowl...it was actually pretty good

The youngest had some of the ravioli which was very good