Day 2 Carnival Panorama Cruise

Cruise - Day 2 (3/8/20)

Sunday morning, we woke up and slowly got ready. Blake and Jeremy headed to the hotel gym while Kylie and I got ready. After, we walked around the downtown area and came across a small crepe restaurant. It was really good! They had the best smoothies! Kylie was pretty antsy so we went on a few walks while we were waiting for the food. We ended up ordering way too much food but it was all really good!

Next, we packed the car back up and got all the suitcases ready to bring on the cruise. We drove to the loading station and dropped off all of our bags. We parked the car back at the hotel and walked over to the boat. We were all so excited at this point! We got in line to go through security which wasn’t too bad. The kids struggled a little but the line moved fast. After security we were able to walk right on the boat!

The first thing we did was go checkout our rooms! We decided to splurge (for us) and get two interior rooms with adjoining doors! The kids had their own room with two twin beds and Jeremy and I had our own room. The kids had fun exploring the room and seeing the towel animal. Next, we went to the lido deck to grab lunch. We decided to try the taco bar which was really good! Probably my favorite option at the lido deck. Kylie loved the music and did a lot of dancing!

After lunch, Jeremy and Kylie went back to the cabins and took a nap. Blake and I decided we wanted to party and went to the sail away party. It was SO much fun! We danced at the top level and then went down to the main party and joined in the dancing. Blake had a blast!

The kids joined us for dinner and enjoying picking anything they wanted. We learned that Blake loves spaghetti which we never have at home because Jeremy and I are not fans. We will have to start making it for him now.

We stayed up late and went to Family Bingo at Camp Ocean! This was probably my favorite activity on the ship. Blake and I were a team and Jeremy and Kylie were a team. They made it so fun for the kids and Blake won an award from his dance moves! After we grabbed some fun drinks at the bar and then ice cream! We stayed up till 11:30pm and had fun talking as a family while eating our ice cream!

Day 1 Carnival Panorama Cruise

Cruise – Day 1 (3/7/20)

We headed down to California Friday afternoon. I worked from home until 1pm and then pulled Blake out of school a little early. We then went to Kylie’s school and picked her up. We loaded up the car and then Jeremy arrived home and jumped in the car and we were on our way. The drive was pretty smooth other than a few emergency stops for Kylie to run to the bathroom. The girl gives no warning and it’s always an emergency. 😊 We arrived at our hotel at around 9pm which was the Double tree resort that was right on the water. We got our room key and headed to the room. When we got in the room we discovered it was a king bed instead of two queen beds. We all went back to the office and they ended up upgrading up to the King deluxe suite which included a pull-out couch and a balcony with a view of the water. We all ate our yummy cookie and headed to bed.

When we woke up the next morning the kids ran to the window to see the “big boat”. It was there just like we told them and they couldn’t stop staring at it! We all got ready fairly quickly as they were so excited to get on the big boat. We couldn’t get on until around 1pm and at this time it was 6:30am! Haha! We decided to try and get some of their energy out by going for a walk to the boardwalk. There was a path from our hotel around the water and over the bridge. It was still pretty early at this point but it was a beautiful day. The kids had so much fun going over the bridge and walking around. There weren’t very many shops open but we found a little coffee shop and we ordered a muffin to share. We continued to walk all along the water to get a nice view of the ship. At one point we received an email that said the debarkation process was taking a little longer than expected and to postpone our arrive by 2 hours, which put us at about 2-3pm to board. It was probably 8:30am when we received that email so we still had a while and the kids were asking every 5 minutes if it was time to get on the boat yet. 😊 We ended up finding a big slide and an outdoor gym near the beach and the kids played for a bit. At 10am we finally found a food place that opened which was Waba grill! We were all so excited to eat and shared a teriyaki chicken bowl. Blake’s absolute favorite thing to eat is rice and chicken with his favorite sauce which is teriyaki sauce! After we finished, we headed back to the hotel to get ready to check out.

We spent sometime relaxing on the balcony and then packed up the car.

We decided to head to Costco to fill up the car so we could just head home when we arrived back from the ship. As we were waiting in line at Costco I received another email that said there was a passenger onboard that was sick and they needed to test them for COVID-19 even though they didn’t show any symptoms of the virus. Because of this they had to stop the debarkation process. The email went on to say that they wouldn’t have any other information until 6pm. This was about 5 hours away from when we received the email. We were devastated and frustrated. The kids had been staring at the ship all morning and no joke asking when we get to get on every 5 minutes. We decided to go into the Costco to just pass some time. After, we headed to Chick-fil-a to let the kids play but also eat lunch. We didn’t end up staying too long as it was packed and the kids weren’t in the mood to listen. We decided to search for a park and ended up finding one. We stayed there for a few hours and then decided to drive to Sea Lion pier. We walked along the pier and saw a sea lion!

It was pretty cold though so we hopped back in the car and took the kids to McDonalds and they had ice cream. We hung out there for a while and received an updated email a little after 6pm which said they didn’t have any additional information as the test results weren’t back yet. This was frustrating! The kids at this point understood that there was a problem and we were waiting for the boat to tell us it was our turn to get on. They were being as patient as can be expected. We ended up leaving McDonalds and drove back to the hotel that we stayed at the night before as we had paid to park there while we were on the cruise. We hung out in the car for hours….the kids fell asleep and Jeremy and I took turns taking walks. We finally received an email very late that said they still hadn’t received the results but they had made a decision on what to do. They said they would send an email soon. At this point it was 9pm or later and I knew there was no way we were getting on the boat. I started searching for a hotel so I would just need to hit book once we received the final word that we weren’t getting on the boat. That’s exactly what the email said and we booked our hotel and arrived shortly after 10pm. We were all starving and exhausted but Jeremy and I tried to be super excited and make it a fun time. We checked-in and headed to our room. We got the kids on board with eating at the hotel restaurant which was super fancy. We headed down and ordered food. Blake fell asleep on the table and Kylie was overtired so we headed back to the hotel room so she could have a tantrum in peace. We went all out and head drinks, dessert, kids meals, etc. to help make it more fun. As we went to bed we received a final email that said the test results came back negative and they would have us board at 11-2pm. They made it a 6 night cruise and took off one of the ports.