They are everywhere!  I have seen the commercials, reviewed the videos, but yet I am blindsided by the abundance of dripping wet kids running from point to point and the feral packs of adolescents doing, uhhh you know, like, teenager stuff.

Welcome to Liberty of the Seas over Thanksgiving week.

Initial checklist complete.

Check-in: 90% app, 10% find and forget muster station. The process was much quicker than days of old. Very little waiting, the lines were short and frustration was little. A pleasant surprise.

Ship Tour: 50% complete. Made an initial sweep and it doesn’t feel as big as the 169000 tonnes would indicate.

Ice cream station: Deck 11.Why would they put the only two machines right next to the kids pool? Did Phillip-Morris add tobacco trying to get kids hooked, or so they just hate adults?

Day 2: A ??? day at Cocoa Cay.  Arrived at 8am, shortly after the Liberty’s sister ship Independence of the Seas. That brings a potential for 7000 zombies to move from the ship’s Buffett to the beach buffet. There were ample beach chairs to support the thousands of overworked pancreai. Beach and water activity availability was sufficient to avoid crowding, and even found some shade to trick our skins into thinking we care about them. Still kids everywhere, but they were harder to hear over the drone of the Karen moms yelling over and over at young Skyler that they weren’t going to ask again.

Day 3: Day at Sea:

11/29 Offloading: We drove it like we stole it. Started walking from the room, down the stairs (the WALL-E crowd hogs the lifts)