Second Leg Begins

The Second Leg Begins,

We are awake and waiting for room service to bring breakfast. Today will be a mad house upstairs at the buffet with over three thousand people looking for one last meal before they disembark so we have decided to skip that scene. If you are disembarking you have no choice because the stewards need you out of the room so they can bet ready for the embarking passengers. All of the new rooms have to be ready by noon. But for those of us who are staying for the next cruise room service is available.

I am down to 12 minutes left on Ken’s account and 2 minutes left on my internet account so we did pretty well. I went on line to down load the last pictures this morning. I am so impressed with this new system. On other cruises it has taken minutes to download each picture but now it takes only seconds. I know you have noticed that I have pictures of almost every event we take part in. Hopefully it will be the same for this second leg.

When I checked this morning it appeared as if they had closed our account instead of carrying it over to this next part. I called and they have assured me that on their main computer it is correct and the message I received was standard. We will see when we check out and back in. I sure hope he is correct. It will be a real pain if he is not. We had a credit on our bill for this leg and they will be mailing a refund to us and we will have a bill for this leg…. Anyway we will see. I will check after noon when all should be right.

We have no plans to go ashore today. We plan to just enjoy the ship. I have looked out and I can see what appears to be the stacks of SEVEN different large cruise ships. With crew members and guests coming and guests leaving I figure that there will be about 60 thousand people visiting this area of the city in the next 5 hours. Plus the people who service their needs and the ones who live here…..HORRORS!!! We plan to see if we can get a Princess transfer to the airport next Sunday. We are not getting a plane but our rental car has to be picked up at the airport. I will let you know how we make out.

I also want to report that only one rose in my flower arrangement has wilted. The flowers are still lovely. I would be so disappointed if they looked great and I had to leave them on board. It is against the law to take any plants or seeds or meats ashore so my flowers would have to go into the garbage.

Breakfast arrived and it was good as usual.

 I have lots of hot coffee left so I filled my princess glass and I will take it along with me,

The procedure this morning is to take cruise cards, in transit cards, passports and customs forms and proceed to the Princess Theatre. When all of the in transit passengers have been checked we will sign back in and then we will be good to go. The possible hitch will happen if one of the in transit passengers does not follow the rules and does not appear in the theatre. No one can leave the theatre until everyone is checked. There have been times when it went smoothly and there have been times when we all waited for more than a half hour for a dummie to appear. Some people believe that rules do not apply to them. We will see how it works out this time.

It went well … However this was the day that there was a mandatory check of all of the fire doors and the water proof doors as well as the smoke removal from the Atrium. That meant we were in the Princess theatre for well over an hour. But they tried to entertain us by telling jokes acknowledging birthdays and anniversaries etc. So it was not tiresome. It was quite pleasant as a matter of fact.

 Then we returned to our room and checked the tour tickets and schedules etc. Then we went toHorizon Court for lunch. We ate with a very nice lady whose name was Ramond Lyons. She is originally from Quebes, currently lives in FFL and she is 93 years old. She looked to be in her seventies. She was so sharp and so interesting to visit with.

After lunch we came back to call Jenny, and Budget rent a car for next week.

Then we selected shore excursions for the Cayman Islands and rentals for Princess Cay. I took the forms down to the shore excursion office, dropped off the Consummate Hosts forms, checked on the new internet minutes and returned here.

It is a glorious day. Because we were on the ship last week we do not have to take part in the muster drill. That is always such a pleasure. After 34 cruises Muster is very boring.

We went topside to explore and get a good spot to watch the sail away. There was a fun atmosphere with people dancing and drinking and visiting. I met a real nice couple from Ottawa.

Just before five I headed down to the room and got ready for dinner.

There were six of us at the table and the main course was Prime Rib. After dinner Ken and I headed for the theatre to enjoy the comedian, Troy Thirdgill. We had seen him before on another cruise. I can’t remember when but he was really funny and we enjoyed a good laugh.

Then we returned to our room. Ken decided he wanted to put his feet up. We had received an invitation to an art auction. 

It was promoted as a chance to win a thousand dollars worth of prizes. I decided last minute that I would go down.

 I went down and I won twice. 

I won the first prize which was a 50 dollar SPA certificate and I also won the last prize which was a pendant and earring set of Misty Topaz from Effy Jewelry.

What a way to end the day.!!

Tomorrow we are back at Princess Cays.