I
was quite astounded at how well we compressed all our stuff for our
Fort Lauderdale cruise-ship embarkation. Somehow, it all went in, and
my bags also accepted 4 cans of ginger ale, one bottle of Dr. Pepper,
and one of Coke. I'd like to claim that I managed to cram in our two
bottles of wine as well, but I carried them in a separate bag. That
would be cheating.
Our rooms are on the fifth deck, which is the lowest and cheapest that houses passengers. We did splurge for a window.
The layout is really clever. Our bedroom has the window, and our bathroom is next to the passageway door. In between is our walk-in closet. Helen says it was the first time she's ever enjoyed unpacking.
As we sailed out of Fort Lauderdale we were preceded by the Holland American ship Westerdam. Also in harbour were (in increasing order of size) a Royal Caribbean vessel, a Carnival boat, and The Oasis of the Seas.
The Oasis is owned by Royal Caribbean, and is the largest cruise ship in the world. To give you some idea, she is twice the size of our ship, and ours was the second largest in port. Everybody knows how huge the Titanic was, and our ship is twice as big as that famous vessel. The Oasis is four Titanics.
I woke up on our first morning on board with a stupid headache. That's my big complaint. Took a handful of pills, had a light breakfast and then we headed ashore.
This included riding tenders back and forth. Our ship anchored at a private beach area. Private, that is, considering there were two or three thousand of us swimming and sunning.
Helen and I snorkeled and were later joined by our co-travellers. Still don't know how they found us. It must be their super power. We had the ship-provided lunch on shore.
Funny, we've been on a zillion cruises together and Lola and Bernie had somehow never gotten into the production shows. Helen doesn't always go either, but I never miss the singing and dancing. It's just great.
Our last cruise in September was only three days long, but suddenly everybody fell in love with the shows. They couldn't stop raving about them. In my opinion, they were OK, but as cruise singing and dancing goes certainly nothing special. No matter, now all of us are going to every show.
Works for me.
Our rooms are on the fifth deck, which is the lowest and cheapest that houses passengers. We did splurge for a window.
The layout is really clever. Our bedroom has the window, and our bathroom is next to the passageway door. In between is our walk-in closet. Helen says it was the first time she's ever enjoyed unpacking.
As we sailed out of Fort Lauderdale we were preceded by the Holland American ship Westerdam. Also in harbour were (in increasing order of size) a Royal Caribbean vessel, a Carnival boat, and The Oasis of the Seas.
The Oasis is owned by Royal Caribbean, and is the largest cruise ship in the world. To give you some idea, she is twice the size of our ship, and ours was the second largest in port. Everybody knows how huge the Titanic was, and our ship is twice as big as that famous vessel. The Oasis is four Titanics.
I woke up on our first morning on board with a stupid headache. That's my big complaint. Took a handful of pills, had a light breakfast and then we headed ashore.
This included riding tenders back and forth. Our ship anchored at a private beach area. Private, that is, considering there were two or three thousand of us swimming and sunning.
Helen and I snorkeled and were later joined by our co-travellers. Still don't know how they found us. It must be their super power. We had the ship-provided lunch on shore.
Funny, we've been on a zillion cruises together and Lola and Bernie had somehow never gotten into the production shows. Helen doesn't always go either, but I never miss the singing and dancing. It's just great.
Our last cruise in September was only three days long, but suddenly everybody fell in love with the shows. They couldn't stop raving about them. In my opinion, they were OK, but as cruise singing and dancing goes certainly nothing special. No matter, now all of us are going to every show.
Works for me.
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