{"id":559,"date":"2014-09-18T16:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T23:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/?p=559"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:44:43","slug":"sea-day-part-2-more-ship-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2014\/09\/18\/sea-day-part-2-more-ship-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Day – Part 2 – More Ship Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m coming to you this afternoon from the Red Frog Pub. You already know it\u2019s one of my favorite parts of the ship. It\u2019s a place that has a little bit of everything… a few things you can order to snack on… some entertainment in the evening… and of course you can get whatever your favorite liquid refreshment. In the afternoons they have some trivia contests and people come here to play a variety of board games. Folks also come here to hang out with friends.<\/p>\n

Today they had the standard \u201cshtick\u201d out on the Lido deck… the Master Mixologist contest and the Hairy Chest Contest. They don\u2019t call it the \u201cMaster Mixologist\u201d any more. I\u2019m proud to say that I won one of the \u201cMaster Mixologist\u201d contests here on the breeze in the past… a frozen concoction with mango, pineaple, a little grenadine for color and a little sweetness… and of course, To-kill-ya\u201d (Tequila). Mmmmm-Mmmmm good! I still brew up these at home. Anyway… now days they call it the Red Frog vs Blue Iguana challenge. It\u2019s mostly the same thing. I didn\u2019t get signed up in time so I was just a spectator this time.<\/p>\n

The Hairy Chest contest never has anything to do with hairy chests. I\u2019m never sure exactly what it has to do with. Sometimes the rotund guy that\u2019s kinda like Santa Claus wins… you know… makes his stomach shake \u201clike a bowl full of jelly\u201d. Or… it\u2019s the guy that does the best job of dancin\u2019 \u201cnasty\u201d. Today it was neither of those… it was a real old guy with ummmm…. errrr….. \u201cman-boobs\u201d. I don\u2019t know any other way to say it… \u201cman-boobs!\u201d And he seemed proud of them. This is a mild picture of him. (By the way, the ship\u2019s video was running and now there are hundreds of discs they will sell to passengers, so I figure it\u2019s OK for me to post this picture.)<\/p>\n

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Da winnah… of the Hairy chest contest.<\/p><\/div>\n

This ship has got the best pools, sports and water park area of any of the Carnival ships. (I think \u201cFlowrider of the Seas\u201d has better stuff on their latest monster ships, but that\u2019s a story for another cruise.) This cruise the pools are busting at the seams. They have been as crowded as I have ever seen them. The areas in and around them have about the maximum number of human bodies that they can handle.<\/p>\n

And there are loads of kids in them. This is one thing I liked better about the \u201cConquest\u201d class of ships (Liberty, Valor, Freedom, Glory, etc). On those ships, the aft pool is \u201cAdults only\u201d… at least they were that way on all of my cruises on them. Here on the breeze, there is no such thing. Kids are in every pool and every hot-tub on the Lido deck. (The Serenity area is adults only and does have a hot-tub, but no pool.)<\/p>\n

With so many people and I suspect especially the kids in all the pools, the water has become cloudy in the afternoon…. ewwwwwww!\u00a0 I\u2019m told that\u2019s mostly because of the sunscreen. I\u2019ll let you judge for yourself, but I\u2019m not going for a swim.<\/p>\n

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Crowded around the Lido deck main pool<\/p><\/div>\n

On a sea day, all of the other stuff gets a work-out. There were a lot of people, kids and adults, up on the \u201cropes course\u201d. For those that don\u2019t know what this is, it\u2019s kind of an obstacle course… 15 feet off the ground.\u00a0 Everything is connected by ropes and you have to go from platform to platform across the rope suspended obstacles. Don\u2019t worry; even though it may be scary, a safety rope connected to the top railings secures you. The kids of all ages seem to have a lot of fun on these. I think only the \u201cDream class\u201d ships have the ropes courses.<\/p>\n

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The Ropes Course<\/p><\/div>\n

Another place I have found is the outside area of the Ocean Plaza on deck 5, mid ship. It\u2019s a place that\u2019s not as crazy as some of the other areas this afternoon. It\u2019s an \u201coutside deck\u201d on the smoking side of the ship. Even though I don\u2019t smoke, I liked it there because they have comfortable chairs around tables with umbrellas. It\u2019s a nice place to hang out with friends that do smoke, have a little liquid refreshment, and watch the ocean go by. I\u2019m suspect that when Carnival shuts-down smoking on the balcony\u2019s this place will get a lot more crowded.<\/p>\n

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This is a really nice area outside the Ocean Plaza… the smoking lamp is lit.<\/p><\/div>\n

This ship doesn\u2019t have a very large area for the shops considering its size. They are abut the same size as the Conquest and Fantasy class ships that I have been on. I think they kept the shops on the small side so that they can have a very large casino… much bigger than on those other class ships. It has all the usual \u201cslot machines\u201d, craps tables, roulette tables, black-jack tables, and a few of those \u201cVegas Vacation\u201d type tables. Hummm… we still call them slot machines, but none of them have coin slots any more. I guess it\u2019s just the slot for your sail & sign card now days.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the casino, there\u2019s the casino bar. In this one there is no band-stand like on most other Carnival ships. (The band-stand is at the Ocean Plaza… the next place down the promenade deck from the casino.) The bar is a nice large one and they also have a large area with tables and chairs where you can commiserate with family and friends over your casino losses. Maybe it\u2019s just me, but I have never won a cent in any shipboard casino.<\/p>\n

The casino was open this afternoon, but it was almost deserted. Everyone must be baking out by the pool. I guess the tables and slots must be luckier at night.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all for now… time for me to go bake out by the pool too. As usual, there will be a pile-o-pics on kokomomantoo<\/p>\n

K. M.<\/p>\n

Searching for a place to squeeze in by the pool.<\/p>\n

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