Saint Greg's Magic Super Bowl cruise - Live - February 11-19

[Saint Greg]

They made me cut this to to verify the temp. I tried to make it so you can’t tell

 

[Saint Greg]

I’ve been doubling up on sides as well because I like mushrooms with the steak.

 

[Saint Greg]

This is what the MDR had

 

[Saint Greg]

I gave my free bottle of wine to this couple at the end because they were drinking wine.

 

[Saint Greg]

Cheese cake to go is in the fridge 

 

[Saint Greg]

Picked up my water.

 

 

[nwcruiselover]

12 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

I gave my free bottle of wine to this couple at the end because they were drinking wine.

 

Did they give you a whole bottle of wine as a solo?  I have heard various reports on this.  Some solos seem to receive only a glass rather than the bottle.

[Saint Greg]

1 minute ago, nwcruiselover said:

Did they give you a whole bottle of wine as a solo?  I have heard various reports on this.  Some solos seem to receive only a glass rather than the bottle.

It’s one bottle per table. I have done it many times. If its a Galveston cruise I drink it. If

its another cruise I give it away. It’s always been a bottle for me.

[Saint Greg]

I don’t think i posted this before dinner. Jurassic World was on.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

I hate this. I know people don’t want me in their business. I try as best as I can to ignore and let them learn on their own. I was doing that at dinner with the table of four next to me…until the surveys were brought up. What I over heard was a person ordered a bucket and was told it was not a part of their package.

 

I let it go until someone suggested they leave a bad comment on the survey. I asked if they had cheers. They did. I told them a bucket would not be included in the cheers package. They said they were trying to pay for it on a credit card. I brought up the fact that carnival enforces a 15 drink limit that you can get around by ordering a bucket. But a bartender that does that is skirting the rules. The surveys are very important and you don’t want to put a bad comment in on someone who was doing the right thing. 
 

This happened during my main course and I felt like garbage after that. Basically the result was them talking lower. And even then I heard the one guy on a different issue say when in doubt, complain to guest services.

 

[Saint Greg]

Welcome aboard show

 

 

[Saint Greg]

CD Rrrrrico.

 

 

[LatinaInTexas]

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

This is the second time I’ve done it. It’s not something I’d like to make a habit of but in this case the hotel prices were insane. There was nothing I wanted to do there that day. The other instance was my 2021 panorama and I didn’t have enough vacation time to take the day before off.

Yeah we are in a hard spot with upcoming cruise being 9 nights and trying to minimize using so many vacation days. Oh well I have 3 months to figure it out lol.

[Saint Greg]

Really fighting to be able to use CC on this ship. They had a comp between two couples to be vips and gave it to both. Reserved seats the entire cruise.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Ha look at that timing.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

I was actually maybe going to go to sleep I’m so tired now. But maybe I should go.

 

[luvcruzing]

I flew in day-of for my November Magic cruise for the same reasons - expensive hotels.  Was certainly nervous doing it, though. The last shuttle I booked was leaving at 11:30, and my plane was landing at 11:10.  I did make it before 11:30, and then paced waiting for the shuttle.  Started to worry that I had missed it and called the company a couple of times only to be able to leave a message. Shuttle finally showed up at noon.

[Saint Greg]

I do have a Julie Scoggins story.

 

I try to keep up a punchliner schedule on my website. I was getting Julie Scoggins’ schedule from her Facebook. She puts her schedule on her banner. But I had her as Scroggins. About a year and a half ago she emails me. “It’s Scoggins not Scroggins.” I thought man…I’m going to always mess that up. Nope. I always remember that email. Scoggins not Scroggins. 

[pirate4me2]

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

Where did I leave off. Looks like the coconut drink. Im really in the steakhouse now but I like to keep things in order.

 

Maria made this. It’s really good. A lot of people ordered it after seeing it. I think it would be a really good Christmas drink.

That looks like my “Christmas in a glass” Alchemy drink from Mardi Gras in November. Soooo good!

[Saint Greg]

Julie Scoggins 

[Roscoe13]

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

Where did I leave off. Looks like the coconut drink. Im really in the steakhouse now but I like to keep things in order.

 

Maria made this. It’s really good. A lot of people ordered it after seeing it. I think it would be a really good Christmas drink.

Andes Mint!

Andes Mint!

[Riles34]

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

I asked for two appetizers instead of dessert. Shrimp cocktail and risotto.

 

Wait....are we one app, 2 entree, and 1 dessert on Carnival? Or is that only specialty dining?  

Edited February 12, 2023 by Riles34

[Saint Greg]

Jason andors.  They went back to back.

[Saint Greg]

37 minutes ago, Roscoe13 said:

Andes Mint!

Andes Mint!

If you think it’s the mint drink. It’s not the mint drink.

 

Edited February 12, 2023 by Saint Greg

[WhiteOptima]

Doing Spirit for the first time on our April Celebration cruise.  I told my DH we have to watch because @Saint Greg has mentioned they have changed his flights.  Logged in today and yep our 3:30pm flight is now leaving at 10:30am and our flight home is now 2 hours later.  No email, no app notification.  Thank goodness I read these blogs or would not be paying any attention to changes.