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Oct 1
Run through Amsterdam airport, literally
make flight to lisbon
but my bag does not
customs takes mom forever
regent transfer takes 1.5+ hours to get to hotel
wander with mom, cute italian place for lunch

stay at the very lovely 
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL THE RITZ
RUA RODRIGO DA FONSECA, 88
LISBON, PORTUGAL

I wish we had come in an extra day early, there was a tea plantation! Cha Chamelia

Also we lost so much of the day to customs, bag, and transport.

Oct 2
My bag arrived 1:20 am, yay

breakfast at the four seasons
worked on RSA CFP and mom did CMEs
late checkout (noon)
Transport to the
SS MARINER

we should have been on the first transport but were not, boo

itiniarary

WED 02OCT24 Lisbon, Portugal 06:00 PM
THU 03OCT24 Cruising The Atlantic Ocean
FRI 04OCT24 Funchal (Madeira), Portugal 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
SAT 05OCT24 Santa Cruz De La Palma, Canary Islands 09:00 AM 07:00 PM
SUN 06OCT24 Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain 07:00 AM 09:00 PM
MON 07OCT24 Arrecife (Lanzarote), Canary Islands 08:00 AM 04:00 PM
TUE 08OCT24 Agadir, Morocco 07:00 AM 04:00 PM
WED 09OCT24 Casablanca, Morocco 09:00 AM 06:00 PM
THU 10OCT24 Cadiz, Spain 08:00 AM 06:00 PM
FRI 11OCT24 Cruising The Mediterranean Sea
SAT 12OCT24 Barcelona, Spain 07:00 AM

Found out the Sustainable Tea Farming Experience was canceled as no one else registered! wish we knew in advance would have bought it out. can not find the farm name to direct contact. slightly grumpy/disappointed.



booked massages

had lunch by the pool

mom gave me the ship tour

the butler unpacked our bags

we went to prime 7 stakehouse for dinner

you have to dress up on the ship after 6? pm

put out a bag of laundry


went to bed early after placing room service breakfast order

THU 03OCT24
sea day
6:30am breakfast in room
broke a tea kettle (electric) sigh
8am scrub massage, tried to push product as usual, but was a good massage
the whole time i get massage i am like
this hurts
don't tense up
oww
that tickels
is it over yet
but i hope the end is worth it
9:30 am hair cut (shaved sides only)
poorly done and pushy sales as usual, sigh

10am lecture on portugual

shower
lunch at the compass rose
napped
missed 2:30pm lecture
woke up for 4pm tea
chaostic unorganized service, not enough staff or at least not a good enough flow to handle the people mom says it's always that bad, i hate incompotance, most people were agitated

then canapes and wine in our room

then dinner at compass rose, walked down by buter and met on elevator by head of restarant?

declined captin's table for dinner

dinner was tasty got the cherf's table selection
caviar, oxtail comsumme, duck, kir sorbet, chocolate cake

back to the room to get ready for the next daya nd get ready for bed

got room service popping in to make us close the curtains adn the reflection was apparently visible and distracting the captain...

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