Freedom July 22nd Review Lots of Food Pics

[cruisewithwife]

Tonight's port of call appetizer sounded interesting so I tried that as well. It was not that amazing.

For the main entree part of the menu

I started with the beef lasagna. This was very good and I would probably say one of the better dishes I had.

DW had the Penne Mariscos. This had lots of different seafood in one dish. She didn't care for all the seafood but the salmon was amazing.

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Next I had the chicken milanese. This was not good....it was very dry

DW had the short rib which I had a bite...it was ok

Tonight's dessert menu was as follows

DW went with the pie which was apple tonight. It was ok but nothing amazing

I had the cheesecake which was ok but nothing to write home about

good thing I had my ice cream to satisfy me haha

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After dinner we headed towards the Atrium to check our pictures taken from the previous night

We did not find any that we were impressed with so we took our own pic haha

We listened to some music for a bit and then were headed into tonight's show.

DW got us a seat as I ran up to the room and then to lido to make a drink

Tonight's show was Getaway Island. This turned out to be our favorite show of the entire cruise.

At the end of the show they invited everyone up on stage to dance.

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Video of the dancing up on stage.

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The party didn't stop there as Malcom moved it to the Atrium

 

Another video of dancing in the atrium

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After that we made our way over to the comedy club to watch two different shows. The one show was strictly making fun of cruisers and it was funny.

 

We finished the night off by enjoying some time in the casino and then it was off to bed as we had an excursion at 7:30 AM the next morning.

[LuvtheBeach10]

Great review! You have given us several ideas to check out in Key West; looking forward to the rest!

[take_me_cruising]

Enjoying reading about your trip.

 

 

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[re-re]

Enjoying your review, great pictures.

[cruisewithwife]

We made it to Freeport. This was not your gorgeous views from in port as the port area is very industrial.

The one nice though was we had reached the nice blue water. Key West had nice water but not quite that blue you could see here.

We docked at 7:00 and our excursion left at 7:30 so we decided to head up to the lido deck for some breakfast.

I got myself some huevos ranchers, eggs benedict and some sausage. It all tasted very good.

 

DW got herself an omelette, some cottage cheese and fruit.

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We were going on the Open Bar Beach excursion today. We had finished our breakfast and decided to head down off the ship. Our excursion was set to leave at 7:30 but if you do this one go right away as they will start loading buses as soon as you get off. They gave us a wristband and we were headed to the line for the bus by about 7:15.

There was one other ship with us in port that day....not sure what cruise line this is

We sat in the top deck of the bus and by 7:20 we were headed to the beach. This seemed amazing as we were way ahead of schedule already.

The bus tour was narrated and the woman we had was very informative. As I mentioned before in the immediate port area it was industrial.

This section you could see where trees had been snapped from the Hurricane that hit them a year ago.

There was many locations that were affected by the hurricane and never rebuilt.

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Below is some pictures of sites along the way and yes they drive on the left side of the road.

The unique thing was there is only 9 stoplights on the whole island. They have many of the roundabouts. This has saved the government so much money as they do not have to power them and there is fewer accidents along with traffic continually moving. I want to say we went through at least 5 on our trip

The owner of Burger King and KFC lives here and you will those are the fast food restaurants on the island.

The local grocery store.

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They have a canal system as so many people use boats for fishing and what not so you can bring your boat right up to your house.

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We made it to the beach. We got off the bus and they called us over for a briefing....now we have been to some and that turns into a long speech and wastes your time. This one was amazing...they were like get whatever chair you want, someone will bring an umbrella to you and set it up. The big shelter houses the bar in which you can get your drinks or people will bring you drinks. You have an open bar drink us much as you want the only rule is you must be able to say your name when you leave. That was the briefing and we were off. We found a chair and within 30 seconds a kid came over with an umbrella dug a hole and got us all set up. Not even another 30 seconds and a waitress was there with a drink menu asking what she could get us. It was barely 8 AM and we were in the water with a drink in our hands.

They had water trampolines and mats to play on. We did not partake in this.

There was plenty of seating and everyone got umbrellas

They did not bring you drinks out in the water but you could go up to the bar and they would let you take multiple drinks

The weather did have a few showers during our excursion but nothing to ruin the fun.

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There was two younger gentlemen who showed up on the beach with an iguana and a parrot in which you could take pictures with.

During the one rain spurt we went up to the bar and got close to the parrot

We enjoyed a very relaxing day of drinking, swimming, and doing nothing. I did do some snorkeling in which did not see much. Two of the workers saw a few of us snorkeling and came out to us and took us over to a place in which we did see a few fish. They were an amazing staff at this resort. They also had a play area for the kiddos.

This is a video of our beach time that includes video footage and pictures.

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[pspercy]

Loving your review, especially the food photos. A little advice from me about tea. As an English woman, and from the north of England at that (Yorkshire), I was brought up drinking hot tea. My mother even used to put it in my baby bottle when I was an infant!!

 

Let me tell you something, that green tea, when taken as a hot drink, is an abomination! No amount of sugar is going to mask the awful taste

 

 

Agreed:)

Grew up in the south of England, raised on Sainsbury's China and Darjeeling blend:')

[Clarasgrandma]

Enjoying your review! So nice when you have an opportunity to travel w/o the kiddos! Looks like you enjoyed your vaca! Love all the food pics!

[cruisewithwife]

Enjoying your review! So nice when you have an opportunity to travel w/o the kiddos! Looks like you enjoyed your vaca! Love all the food pics!

 

Thanks it was a very nice vacation by ourselves.

[cruisewithwife]

The beach excursion was great we were scheduled to be back by 12:30 and it was a 30 minute ride so we assumed they would call us at 12 they didn't call for us until 12:30 and got back about 1 which was nice so with leaving early and not leaving til the end of the time we got a good 4 and half hours at the beach. On the ride back we saw the KFC.

They had a little mini golf area

We made it back to the port area and checked out some of the shops.

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We decided to walk over to Fat Tuesdays to have a drink

Along the way we got our picture in front of the Freeport sign

We made it to Fat Tuesday

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We got a table on the patio and took a look at the menu

They brought out some samples to help us make our selection

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Relaxing waiting for our order to come

We got the red, white, and blue daquiri

We also got a conch basket. It was like chicken strips but with conch. Overall I thought it tasted great.

There was a little lizard who was walking around the patio area

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Next we took a walk over to Senor Frogs and down to some of the local shops

It was interesting they had a pay phone right at port

While in port they were working on the top of the whale tail

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A couple pictures before getting back on the boat

We got back on board and DW headed for the room. I wanted to run up and get some tacos from Blue Iquana

I got a shrimp and a pork taco. The shrimp one was delicious however the pork I didn't think was that great

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I got back to the room and we found our towel animal for the day

We were both pretty tired from being out in the sun so we took a nap. Then we got ready to head down towards dinner.

Last couple views of Freeport before heading off

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We got to dinner and our cheese plate was waiting for us.

Here was tonight's appetizer menu

I got the vegetable spring rolls to start and these were delicious

DW started with the baked meatballs. These were very good and pretty much the same as what we had at the tasting bar

I tried the braised rabbit....this was definately a no go after the first bite

Good thing I had an order of meatballs to fall back on

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Here was the port of call menu

DW tried the crab soup.....I had a bite and wasn't overally impressed with it.

On to the entree portion of the menu

I started with the veal parmesan....this was very good

DW had the baked ziti. We both thought this was a good dish

I also had the lamb shank....lamb if done correctly is amazing...this piece was just ok