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You will love RCCL, Colleen!! Where are you cruising to? What big birthday?!?!! Enquiring minds want to know!!
We sail in and out of Southampton (which hopefully means a PP meet with Cheryl ) and go to Spain and France. We're traveling with my best friend and her husband which will make it extra fun.
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We sail in and out of Southampton (which hopefully means a PP meet with Cheryl ) and go to Spain and France. We're traveling with my best friend and her husband which will make it extra fun.
The birthday involves a zero.......
How fun!!. We are doing a B2B Copenhagen/Scandinavia cruise next August!!
Congrats on your weight loss! I can't wait to hear all the details about breakfast at Garden Grill because I'm considering this for one of my choices for our May 2016 trip. I love your enthusiasm for cruising!
How fun!!. We are doing a B2B Copenhagen/Scandinavia cruise next August!!
We considered doing B2B because our ship does a week in Norway after our cruise. But then we felt guilty leaving DD home alone for 2 weeks rather than just one!
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Our Plans for Sailaway and the evening!-December 6th
This will be a new ship for all of us, so after lunch, we will explore it a bit!!. Every ship that I have been on has some stunning artwork to see as well as nautical touches. We love to get the layout of the ship, find our cabin and figure out where we will be seated for dinner. We have done both My Time Dining and seated dinners but when we are with friends, we like to do the scheduled meals. Our dining time is 8:00PM. We will also pack a small carry on bag with bathing suits and a change of clothes in case anything happens with our luggage. We've been lucky so far, but why tempt fate?
We can usually get into our cabin by 1PM, so we'll check that out as well. If it's nice out, we will most likely don our swimsuits and go in the hot tub for a bit. Then we'll get showered, changed and ready for Sailaway. We traditionally get a glass of champagne and go up to the top deck for this. If the weather is not so nice, we'll watch it from our balcony or Nat and Lou's balcony along with them!
For the first night, we booked a Mystery Dinner show. We've done this a few times and it's great campy fun!! You usually meet somewhere for a glass of wine and the characters come out and interact with you and someone either goes missing or swimming with the fishes! Then you are escorted to a restaurant for dinner where, as you eat, the cast presents itself one by one for you to decide who the villain is. The meal is usually delicious and the wine flows.
After our sleuthing and eating, we will go to the Welcome Aboard show and then probably to the Casino for a bit. We will most likely take another walk around the ship and check out the shops after this. When we head back to our cabin, one of my favorite things to do is browse through the next day's Cruise Planner and see what we'll do tomorrow! Tomorrow will be a sea day for us, so it'll be fun to see which activities we'd like to participate in!
Next: Our Cruise Itinerary and Plans for the week!
Congrats on the weight loss - sounds like that's going well!
My goodness, that's a heck of a lot of cruise ports you've visited!
Thanks, Cheryl!!. You guys have been to a fair amount of ports yourselves!
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Congrats on your weight loss! I can't wait to hear all the details about breakfast at Garden Grill because I'm considering this for one of my choices for our May 2016 trip. I love your enthusiasm for cruising!
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Glad you like RCCL so much as I may take one of their cruises down the road. Not sure when yet. Can't believe the amount of ports you've been to! That was something with your first cruise and your kids! The plans for Day 1 look good!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Your plans sound great for your first day on board.
Thanks. Cheryl!
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The Mystery dinner show sounds like fun!
Thanks, Donna!. It is!
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Glad you like RCCL so much as I may take one of their cruises down the road. Not sure when yet. Can't believe the amount of ports you've been to! That was something with your first cruise and your kids! The plans for Day 1 look good!
We love RCCL!! We have many more ports we would love to add to that list!! The kids are much older now, so hopefully, they will behave better!. Thanks!!
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Mystery dinner sounds fun - they do those on all the RCCL ships?
It is fun!!. They do not do them on all ships. It would be in the cruise planner if it's available on your sailing.
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. We are doing a B2B Copenhagen/Scandinavia cruise next August!!
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I love your enthusiasm for cruising!
That was something with your first cruise and your kids! 
The plans for Day 1 look good! 
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