When we do wake up we feel rested and Bernie is feeling good
too. We decide to head to the beach and
we dress in our swimsuits and apply the sunscreen.
I agree to meet Bernie in the International Café later as he
heads up to the Horizon Court for Breakfast and I head to the IC for Muesli and
my Cappuccino.
We head ashore at around 9:30 and we are at the pier further
away from the port building. There are
two other ships in port situated at the coveted parking spots. This is a working pier so the piers included
other vessels as well like tug boats and also some Navy boats too.
When you get onto the pier there are small shuttle buses
that will transport you to and from the port building, but we like to walk
it. It takes about 8 minutes to walk but
if you have trouble walking or the heat can get to you I suggest you take the
shuttle bus.
Right away when Bernie hits the sun his eye is having
trouble adjusting the to brightness. He
used the drops this morning so I am guessing that is why. Then when we walk into the building they have
trouble adjusting again. In fact he says
to me I really can’t see anything, so we take a seat and wait for his eye to
adjust.
We leave the building and are making our way to the exit and
again as soon as the bright light hits his eye he is blinded and actually takes
my hand to help him. I question whether
we should go to the beach and he says no lets go.
But as soon as we exit the port he is still
quite blind and I make an executive decision, we are returning to the ship and
will enjoy our day on board.
He feels bad about this but I am totally fine with it. Sure the beach here is amazing but we have
been before and we will be back in a few weeks and we can enjoy the day on
board.
As we enter the port building I chat with the woman at the
flower booth and arranged for two arrangements to be made. One for us and one for our friend who is
celebrating her birthday in a few days.
We will come back later and pick them up. If you like flowers I highly recommend you
stop at her stall and get a lovely bouquet for a very reasonable price.
We are back on board at 10 am and
we sit in the International Café and have another drink and then we decide to
head up to the top deck for some R & R. Bernie picks a chair in the shade (which I
have to say is easy to find on this ship) and I sit not too far away in the sun. There are quite a few people on board, I am
not sure if they just stayed on or if they are going off later. We do leave here early (4 pm) so I know many
of the crew have decided to just stay on.
Again we walk to and from the ship to the building, so we did get our exercise in today. While walking back on board a lot of people are commenting about the flowers and where we got them. Yes you can bring flowers back on board with no problem but you can not take them off with you when you disembark the vessel in Florida. Very strict about that and you can be fined.
We are back on board and as we
take the stairs to the Promenade we can smell the pizza and it smells good so
after dropping off the flowers we head back to Alfredos for some pizza.
This time I have a nice salad to
start and then I have a pizza that has artichokes, mushrooms and olives. It is very good. Oh yeah I
was going to just get a glass of Sangria which is $5.95 but you can get
a large carafe of Sangria for $9.95 and you get a lot more, so I recommend the
carafe instead.
Yesterday we started watching the
movie Gone Girl and we need to finish it so back in the room we watch the last
bit of it and oh my it is good and not what you would expect. So if you get the chance watch the movie.
We close our eyes and take a nap,
not sure why we are resting so much but hey I am on vacation and obviously my
body needs it.
We wake when we hear the Captain
come on the cabin announcing our departure, not sure why they are announcing this
in all the rooms but since we are awake we head out to the balcony to watch
sail away.
But we are just above and two over
from the aft door on Promenade that people use to go outside and the door slams
constantly. Wish they had it on an
automatic door opening/closing to prevent it from slamming. It is so loud and all you hear is BANG, five minutes BANG, a few minutes BANG. It gets to me after a half hour and I go
inside. I am very concerned because we
are two cabins over from this one for our last leg which would put us even
closer to that door. I am almost tempted
to move into an inside to get away from it.
I hope it isn’t something I hear in the cabin.
Right now I can say I love the cabin and it’s location but it is not a quiet cabin and would recommend cabins away from public doors and just above public venues.
Right now I can say I love the cabin and it’s location but it is not a quiet cabin and would recommend cabins away from public doors and just above public venues.
Events today: Morning Trivia, Ping Pong, Shuffleboard,
Basketball, Speed Sudoku, Brunchtime Trivia, soccer, knitters and needlepoint
get together, bridge play, MUTS: Genesis and then Il Divo, Goofy Golf
Competition, Balloon & Can Shooting at the Bullseye Simulator, Steel Pan
Class, Afternoon Tea, Pop Choir, Sabbath Service, Afternoon Trivia, Zumba
class.
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