This is a statue of General Robert E. Lee, which leads to the name of "Lee's Circle" for the area. The road goes around the circle, but not in a roundabout fashion like the ones here. The street car goes along this route.
Once we were onboard the ship, and had our lifeboat drill, we set sail down the mighty Mississippi River towards the Gulf of Mexico. It took between 7 and 8 hours to get out into the gulf because the river winds around so much. We are standing on the front observation deck of the Verandah Deck, which is the only passenger cabin deck that has an observation deck (wow! that was a lot of use of the word "deck!") There aren't that many rooms on this ship that have private balconies, and I'm not yet willing to pay the premium price to have one, so I always ask for the same cabin - Verandah 8. It is the most forward of the inside cabins on the Verandah Deck, so we consider this our balcony. We just have to go into the hall and then out a door, and voila! Our own balcony. Only it's public, not private. There usually aren't many people there except when we set sail.
Carnival, and I'm sure many other cruise lines, do the towel animal thing every night. We have had this creature on every cruise, I think, but it's always fun when the put the sunglasses on.
Crazy Calvin has a thing about sending his dinner plate back to the kitchen just as pretty as it came out. He arranged his leftovers and took bits from other people at our table. At first our waiters thought he was just weird, but after the first time or two, they got into it and started to look forward to what he was going to create.
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