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good morning it is almost noon and it is our first Sea
day on board MSC seaside you know the sign of a good vacation is we do very
little before noon on a sea day but the truth of the matter is we're getting use
to that time change we're from the west coast so we're three hours behind and
we've had to kind of adjust really quickly to that time change so that's
really more the reason why we're just sort of up and Adam now so our plan for
today is to go have lunch at butchers cut I did not know until I boarded the
ship that they offer brunch and lunch so we made a reservation yesterday for noon
and we're getting ready to head over there yesterday was an awesome
fun-filled action-packed day and I think today we're going to try to keep it a
little bit more mellow and just see where the day takes us so after lunch
our son wants to check out the kids center and then we need to register our
credit card that is something unique about MSC Cruises is that you actually
ready to register credit card once you get onboard and a little kiosk so we
will be sure to show you all how that is done and then tonight is formal night so
we're excited for that really thrilled to be experiencing the main dining room
for the first time we have late dining very late dining 9:30 p.m. it appears
that they have three dining times on this ship 5:30 7:30 and 9:30 and we're
late we did book this cruise quite late so that's probably why we ended up with
out later time but it works great for us because that is actually 6:30 Pacific
time so our dinner schedule and our kind of biological clocks will work perfect
for that so want to tell you guys a little bit about our stateroom we are on
a deck 10 balcony cabin I believe this is a fantastic a level balcony balcony
10 to 4 or 5 it's a beautiful cabin we'll talk a lot more about the cabin
and our ship tour and later on in different vlogs but something that we're
really enjoying is this really oversized and fully shaded balcony out here it's
beautiful couple of things that I want to share with you guys that I love about
the ship that I found out so far the coffee the coffee the coffee even the
coffee in the buffet is so good and you can get a nice proper beautiful ceramic
mug to drink your coffee out of it is so good the coffee everywhere is amazing
Venki the chocolate store oh you guys so good we went there last night at the end
of the night before bed and the hot chocolate was just absolutely exquisite
loving that I'm also loving if they have hand-washing stations at the entrance of
the buffet super super cool went out and scoped out the buffet this morning and I
saw those everywhere as well as hand sanitizers right on the inside which I
don't really use those I like the traditional hand washing areas that is
so great the staff and crew have been very friendly so far super lively and
fun there's already a lot going on I could totally hear it going off at the
pool deck right now great like Latin music lots of people shouting and
screaming so it sounds like it's fun beautiful sunny weather today so we're
going to go see what kind of see day fun we can have
over there any display hi how are you hi booth yes we have a new reservation
today
we have just discovered a little seed a secret the brunch / lunch tour of a
brunch or breakfast tea items at butcher's cut is awesome and it was so
quiet in there so I talked to the waiter really where is everybody as well people
don't really understand that we have this available so the only dude on see
days so on this cruise there's only two opportunities would be the first sea day
and the last C day definitely an excellent way to start the day in a calm
quiet atmosphere with really top-notch service I had a Mediterranean on line at
my husband had a sandwich Paul lives with breakfast lemony and our son had a
hamburger and what they do with the kids is they have a twelve dollar set price
meal where they get a main verse aside and a dessert so he got a hamburger with
mashed potatoes and then he got some carrots a fruit salad and he had a
roofer closed for dessert which was really tasty very high-quality ice
creams was really nice experience if you're sailing on msec and messy
seaside oh my goodness there's so many S's in there you definitely do not pass
up this tip because it is so trinkle and nice or off to explore the kids center
for the first time and we okay okay family fun come to the core and then you
don't know if it'll work long today okay so report eleven and family fun to four
so on the first seed a the kids club is open from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and
then they take a three-hour break in the middle of the day and then they're
reopening at four to eleven and the kids have the option to go to dinner with
their group so right now we are in the lego pirates area I believe and this is
the area that our son will be enjoying so this is for seven to eleven year olds
they have really cool things right now my son is checking out the foosball
table and it looks like they have video game consoles computers and everything
is totally cool in this Lego theming so let's take a look around
so I realized today that yesterday on embarkation day we did not walk you
around our stateroom so I would like to show you a little look around the room
today but please know that a formal room tour is coming and our traditional how I
organize my cabin video is also coming so I'm not gonna go in a huge amount of
detail I just want to give you a first look this is cabin ten to four or five
which is a balcony cabin normally a fantastic a balcony on deck 10 it's a
really quiet sort of aft center aft located cabin here on deck 10 it's a
very very good location because it has staterooms both above and below so
really quiet corridor all right I'm going to flip you around and we're going
to take a look at the cabin configuration we are going to start with
the best part of this room which is the balcony I'm gonna give you a look
through the doors I'm not going to open up the doors because we are in the
Caribbean and if I do that we are going to have a very steamy camera so as you
can see it's a very spacious balcony we have two chairs and one very nice little
footstool /table alright panning around now we're gonna take a look at the
vanity and sort of minibar area here's a nice look at that and remember we're
gonna give you a full tour of everything later this is the minibar quick glance
we'll come back to it later of course in our full room tour alright there is a
stool right there and a drawer where we're keeping a lot of miscellaneous
stuff the hairdryer is also in there this is where we keep all of our
charging stuff there is a very nice phone here which always shows you the
time which is very handy when you have time zone changes and we've got some
little lights which is there we've got our regular cables here and there's more
USB charging over by the beds as well I love these little inset shelf areas I
think they're awesome this is where we're keeping our daily programs my
itinerary and this is where we have the spa information room service and
breakfast order cards which I want to tell you about more later nice
flat-screen TV and let's take a quick wide look at the bed area
the bed has individual lamps on the side and again USB right there for charging
so you can move this table a little bit closer if you wanted to have a device on
it and these little storage cubicles are really handy those are actually our
bathrobes okay now for one of the coolest parts of the room look at what
the sofa converts into you guys isn't this cool my son loves it he has like a
little TV station up top and a bed on the bottom and a ladder he absolutely
love this setup I think it's so cool how the couch kind of lifts up and a bed is
underneath okay I'm going to pan around and show you some other areas of the
room all right we're gonna go ahead and save the closet tour for the full room
tour I'm not going to open it up so stay tuned for that okay on to the other side
of the room all right you guys there is nothing better than having a beautiful
full-length mirror on a cruise and this one is awesome as you can see we have
our little grab and go station here I brought magnetic hooks with me which
will link to in the description below and we are making a little grab and go
station with hats and my purse and over here you can see the little buttons that
you depress to alert your staterooms to err to what your needs are so this is
the do not disturb and this is the makeup room and just outside the door
out there it will put the little lights on for him that indicate which of those
you need and this is the room a key inserted into the power thing that
powers the room so if you take your room card out you will lose light and power
but that is what those handy bracelets are for that we are wearing here so we
don't really need our room parts unless we are getting off the ship okay here we
have the thermostat pretty standard stuff and I will show you the other side
of the bed and then after this we're gonna go take a quick look at the
restroom another nice side table with some storage we really needed it on this
cruise you definitely need all the storage you can get in these rooms
sorry about the wobble there I've got my alarm clock my sleep mask and a bath
towel okay let's take a quick look at the bathroom
all right so I've got my jewelry and toiletries there which will go into more
detail on a little bit later here's a quick look at the shower and they do
have a traditional drying rope what do you call those a drying line and
adjustable showerhead shampoo conditioner and some good temperature
controls really hot water and then a little foot stool thingy down there I
don't know what that's for maybe just maybe that is for ladies and they shave
their legs or something like that I'm not really sure anyway we've got a
couple of shelves here on bathroom mirror and a little bit more storage
under there which I want to tell you more about later because we are going to
outline that a little bit better in our room tour so yeah this is the cabin just
wanted to give you a quick look it's been perfectly sufficient for our needs
on this cruise it's good for a 7-night cruise I can see how if you were on like
a transatlantic or a 14 night cruise you might need a little bit more storage but
for our needs it's just been just fine so hope you've enjoyed this peek around
we're gonna go out and check out our Sun who we dropped off in the kid center and
see how he is doing and then run the ship
okay it's our first experience on the Bridge of Sighs here we go
these elevators are amazing is to the AFT elevators that go from the bridge of
size which is right behind me right there all the way down to I think it's
the Miami Beach pull it on my shirt anyway I got my biceps hello sweetheart
how are you and let's go check it out
this is for we need to be ok here we go Dec 8 a.m. it's formal night by the way
people are dressed up so beautifully so much elegant
I've even see little kids wearing a sport jacket 16 all kinds of combination
it's just so much Flair tonight on formal night alright here we go
right I think we need to go down one more level though sweetheart okay
here we are totally apt on the ship we just enjoyed the sunset for the Bridge
of Sighs which is pretty much the quintessential MSC experience you have
to do it someone from guest services kept telling us I can go to the Bridge
of Sighs if you've gone to the Bridge of Sighs like now we have it just like just
trust me on this one and I'm so glad that we did so we are going to enjoy the
wake view here for a few more moments and then we're going to go grab our
first gelato yes
welcome to thank e we are going to try to get some jello
we have a baby cup of the chairman please
which one of the coffee flavors in the straw
we have these complicated
what flavor you want
okay I'm gonna try the tiramisu we are going into the arcade area and my son
really wants to play air hockey so hopefully their hockey area is available
it's all kind of you this one area where you have the f1 simulator you have the
what's together big palms I don't even remember the FC theater the bowling
alley the arcade and then all that all kind of runs up against the disco so
let's go check and see if air hockey is available looks like he has some
competition is it really dying to get his hands on this the whole time
it's about 10:15 and we've just finished our dinner and dessert and for my son a
second dessert you really like the brownie so he ordered another one so
tonight started off a little bit chaotic in the diner
hello mr. Browdy
a little bit chaotic you think this is a more busy night in the dining room our
server was definitely you can tell he was really feeling it but as we
progressed through the evening and talked to him a little bit more he
really warmed up to us it was very sweet guy and we got the opportunity to talk
with him a little bit more about the ship and about his life in the
Philippines and just the overall MSC experience and I'm really glad that he
took the time to open up to us after it kind of burned down a little bit the
food was good we had very nice kind of gala evening meal the desserts were very
delicious I had the cheese plate I liked it very much
my son had coconut tapioca and my husband had a brownie stack that was so
good that he actually ordered a second one who's my son wasn't
loved it so proof that t-bone accrues you can always order more than one of
something that you like so we are off to go see if maybe just maybe we can close
our evening with some chocolate and if we have time we're going to try to do a
little bit short a packing for our day in Jamaica tomorrow
chocolate martini is like allegis at thank you so I had to come try one but
first I would say I would have come down or anything because I mean the siren
song of this Cruise we keep being drawn to all this incredible chocolate and
coffee everywhere it is so good it's such a treat
it's so hard to describe until you actually experience it so let's try the
famous Bank me chocolate martini feels or shavings on top together
yes don't do it
totally addictive although Martinez on the ship are served in these boxes that
are and these big glass spaces which I
absolutely love I don't like to bug my martini glasses gonna topple over
yeah this is definitely the best way to close out the night we still have to get
packed for Jamaica tomorrow people who drink my chocolate martini my
sons having some strawberry gelato and then it's off to prep our shorty bag
for the big day you know Torrio Cheers in preparation for tomorrow's big shor
day we are going to place our breakfast order so you hang this little room what
do you call this door hanger outside of the door before 2 a.m. and this is the
most comprehensive room service breakfast menu I have ever seen so some
of it is complimentary you have your standard complimentary continental
breakfast with juices coffee tea milk pastries breads jams all of that stuff
and even yogurt and cereal fruit plates all that good stuff but what I like the
most and what I'm so stoked about because I am NOT a carbohydrate person
in the morning I like my proteins and my veggies is that they have a full
American breakfast it does cost 795 but I do not care for convenience and not
having to schlep to the buffet before going ashore having my coffee delivered
and getting myself an omelet I'm going to pay 795 so the selection here for the
795 surcharge American breakfast is your choice of eggs they have scrambled
sunny-side up over easy over medium well done or you can get omelettes you have
plain or ham and cheese choices they also have pancakes waffles and side
orders so I'm assuming you can get whatever you want from this list it
doesn't say pick one thing from each section it just basically says American
breakfast 795 so I'm going to try to figure out how it works and how you put
in the quantities but I'm was like totally pleasantly surprised when I
opened up the breakfast order menu but it is late and we still need to pack for
our Shore day so let's get to that right now
I was trying to do the math on how long it's been since I've been did you make
it and I want to say it's like 10 to 12 years so needless to say I'm really
curious and excited to go back to Ocho Rios so tomorrow we are going on a tour
with Pete Taylor and Suns tours to the cool blue hole and
to do some white river tubing really excited kind of a tricky excursion
because it's very active we'll be getting in and out of the water will be
floating on a river may be jumping in waterfalls and things like that but at
the same time you have to wear dry clothes off the ship so I want to go
over what we're gonna pack in our shore day bag we're all back in our room in
our jammies and getting ready to go to bed so this is kind of my last step
before I go to bed II before we sign off on today's sea day vlog for you make
sure that you catch our vlog tomorrow on our experience and our adventure in
Jamaica it's gonna be a fun one it's our first short day on this MSc
seaside cruise we're really excited so let's get right into it so I'm going to
start with the bags that we're taking I am going to be carrying my mia tui Alex
folding travel bag this bag is awesome it folds into this little square that's
why I packed it because we might carry-on only for this cruise I
definitely needed something small so this is gonna be back that I carry and
I'm going to have my husband carry this did you know that how do you be carrying
this bag so this is our travel on folding antitheft backpack this is an
awesome little backpack very very very lightweight and this has a nice little
container a little space in the side of mesh area for our beverages so I'll let
you know what's going to be going in his bags and I'm not exactly sure what's
going to be distributed where but we've I have to figure that out in the morning
so first thing I want to go over is the confirmation of our tour so I have that
printed off and that along with my wallet are gonna be some of the most
important things that we need cash credit cards things like that I think
I'm gonna go ahead and take my whole wallet with me tomorrow because I think
we'll have a secure place to store it the whole time
as far as gear is concerned we're keeping it really simple and tomorrow
our little GoPro is going with us is that the five or the six honey five okay
so this is the GoPro five this is a floating bobber that we like to use
we're also going to be taking this extendable GoPro accessory for one more
tubing we can kind of put the camera out like that or jumping off of the cliff to
go into the waterfall whatever it may be I felt like we needed a waterproof
extender for the GoPro so that is going with us I also have a GoPro head mount I
will spare you the details on how ridiculous this looks when you put it on
but it goes over your head and in case we can't use any GoPro accessories or if
we have a helmet or something like that this is going with us I'm not really
sure what we're gonna need but we're trying to keep it light that way also
taking my iphone not only for safety purposes but to take photos the video
because it does an incredible job of taking photos and videos I have a little
baggie here is a black bag with tissue and hand sanitizing wipes always a good
thing to have an extra baggie with you a ziplock bag just in case you need to pop
something in there like a snack or something else that I don't know is
food-related or wet or that you just don't want to get all over your bag
sunscreen facial sunscreen lip gloss portable charger for my iPhone which
I'll get a cable for soon these are our sunglasses for the whole family
this is a snack because Neer's going ashore and you're doing something active
who knows when you're gonna get lunch so these little peanuts out of our minibar
so funny we're going with us and then of course a nice bottle of water I'm just
taking one for the three of us I'm sure there'll be other opportunities to buy
water and my son's goggles now I'm not showing you all of our tennis shoes and
the clothes that we're wearing I'm just telling you kind of what the change of
clothes types of things are and the little gear necessities are that I'm
putting in a bag so this is kind of an interesting excursion because I think
I'm going to need two outfits I'll show you the outfit that I am wearing
tomorrow a simple white beach cover-up in a swimsuit or what I'm going to start
with and then I'm actually packing a rash guard for when we're river tubing
just in case I'm really exposed to the Sun because I burn really fast and I'm
taking a little swim skirt I think sometimes it's nice for active
excursions to have something like this so you feel a little bit more modest I
don't really know if I want to be floating down the river in my bikini so
we'll see what happens it seems like you'd be kind of a nice thing to have
but maybe I'll just wear my swimsuit I'm not sure but I brought it along on this
trip because it's something that I have and I thought I might want to try also
taking my beautiful wander wet bag this is a wet a swimsuit bag that I will link
to in the description below if I forget to do that just give me a comment and I
will certainly get it for you but this is where we put our wet swimsuits after
our excursion to put it back in our bag and keep all the wetness away and then
to beach towels hopefully you guys I haven't forgotten
anything is so late right now it is midnight and we really
have to be off the ship in like nine and a half hours so we are going to go to
bed and say goodnight to our first C day on msec sigh it's been such a fun action
field day I think we all finally kind of feel like we're on vacation it takes a
while on a cruise to really wind down it really does it takes a while for us
anywhere from 1 to 3 days for us to really get into that groove and feel
like we're relaxing but we're into it we're excited I think I've had my share
of chocolate and sugar and delicious cocktails today so really looking
forward to a good night's rest and a fun day in Jamaica tomorrow make sure that
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we'll see you on the high seas bye
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