Day 6: Puerto Vallarta
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Cruise Compass
MDR Menu: A Taste of Italy
Today’s Weather: High 70s, wind only about 2mph out of ENE.
Internet Speed: 8.86 Mbps down, 3.71 Mbps up, connecting via Mexico City
Location at Start of Day

Location at End of Day: about 8:30P

Another tough night for me sleep-wise, with the NyQuil not helping, so not sure how much sleep I got…but it wasn’t a lot.  We dragged out of bed at 9:30A, having lost another hour due to time zone change this time, and had a small WJ breakfast before wandering over to Schooner for this morning’s general trivia (14 of 20, with the winner at 16).  I grabbed a bunch of napkins from Café Prom to serve as today’s kleenix, as I’d been limited to toilet tissue up until now.  We then spent some time on a random outside deck chair on Deck 4 before I decided to try to get a small nap pre-lunch.  Made arrangements to meet E in the Solarium when I was ready and was back in the room at 11:00A for about a 45 minute nap.  While we had been out they’d power-washed the balcony.  I spent about 15 minutes catching up with these notes and then left the room just after noon to go find E.

It being a nice day on the pool deck and the ship being pretty quiet due to everyone being onshore, we followed the lead of several of the crew members and ate at Johnny Rocket’s, following which we made our mandatory circuit of Navigator Dunes and then returned to our balcony for quiet time.  We were about to head off to 3:00P trivia when we both decided a nap sounded much more inviting, so that’s what we did!

Went down for the 5:00P general trivia, and the staffer running it (Edena) has been making the afternoon quiz progressively more difficult each day, and today’s was a good workout.  We got 12/20 and were pretty happy.  The winner had 15/20. 

Tonight was a WJ dinner.  The MDR menu was Italian night and looked poor (and, coming right after our night at Jamie’s, repetitive).  Sadly, the WJ was basically serving exactly the same stuff, including all the same entrees and desserts.  There were additional choices, but, again, not the variety we’d hoped to find.  We took our time lounging at the table before finally heading over for the 7:30P headliner show with a comedy juggler (Jason Garfield) who, interestingly enough, has developed several shows for ESPN Ocho (such as Combat Juggling and Dodge Juggling, among others).  He was a pretty low-key guy – we had a good time but, again, not appointment TV.

Although it was only 8:30P we were both ready to call it a night and benefit from the extra hour of sleep available to us as we’ll be setting the clocks BACK an hour tonight due to once again changing time zones.  So, after a quick stop of Café Prom to pickup more napkins (i.e. “kleenix”) for me we came back to the room to put up our feet, read, relax, and eventually sleep.