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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Wow. What an auspicious start! Delayed while looking for Keeper Boy's retainer. Again. Didn't find it. Finally took off about 5:30 after going back into the house a few times (belt for Keeper Boy, put Keeper Boy's keys back...). Made it almost to Stringfellow (edge of our subdivision) and Hubby realized he left his iPod sitting on top of his car. Back to the house. And finally off. Got almost to Fredericksburg and realized the tub with the nieces' and nephews' Easter baskets and the bag with the camera, sunscreen, books, etc. were still sitting in the house. Gah! John had loaded the truck while I was searching for Justin's retainer. He didn't see the bags and I didn't check. Just assumed he'd gotten everything. Back to the house we went. Potty break. Got the boys' skates while we were there. And our pillows. On the road again about 8:20. Drove and drove. Had traffic until just below Fredericksburg, but everyone was in a good mood. Traffic was good after F'burg.
Started looking for a hotel just below Fayetteville, NC. EVERYTHING was booked. We hadn't made a reservation because we didn't know how far we would get. We ended up driving to, basically, North Charleston, parking in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and sleeping in the truck. First time for everything! We slept for about four or four and a half hours. I changed in the Wal-Mart bathroom and we brushed our teeth in the parking lot with bottled water. We found a Denny's and had some breakfast and then drove to the port terminal without incident.
Finally got through the parking check, paid for parking, and got into the terminal. We had the slowest check-in person AND the entire computer system went down in the middle of our check-in. But it came back up and we finally got our Sea & Sail passes and got onboard. So. Many. Bad. Omens. We looked worn out and beat down in the picture they took just before embarkation!
The ship is older, but nice. Room is small, but fine. Wish it had a couple more outlets. The room had one outlet in the room itself, and one in the bathroom. It was sufficient since we weren't using our phones except for one at night as a "fan." Had we actually had to charge lots of devices, it would've been a challenge. The room became significantly smaller later that night when the cabin steward put the berths down. One was basically a bunk bed over the head part of our bed, and the other was at the foot of our bed. There was floor space at the foot of our bed; however, once the bunks were down, you had to stoop over to get back the bed so that you didn't bonk your head on the bunk. The bunks stayed down for the duration of the trip. We hit our heads more than once while getting up from bed during the night or in the morning.
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| This is the room looking in from the door. The closets are on the left; the door to the bathroom is on the right. Straight ahead is the bed, and the one upper berth folded down from the left to about where the yellow starts on the bed. The other one came from the other side. |
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After checking out our room, we explored the ship and stopped at one of the bars and bought the Bubbles soda package. Grabbed a bit to eat in Windows on the Sea on the Lido deck. We weren't real hungry since we ate a big breakfast after vacating our parking space at Wal-Mart.
Our cabin steward is named Nahammed. Hamed for short. Seems very nice.
Later...
The muster drill was long. Hope it goes quicker in the event of an actual emergency! :) Apparently you no longer need to take the actual life jackets to the drill.
The boys went exploring after the drill. John and I went to nap on the Serenity deck (over 21 only on rear of ship; Deck 9). He napped. I didn't really. Got some cool pictures of Fort Sumpter as we passed, though.
I'm going to get a pedicure at 7:45 and then we will go eat.
Later still...
Most expensive pedicure ever! OMG! It looks great, but sheesh.
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| In case you were wondering what a $75 pedicure looks like... |
First experience with MyChoice dining was good. Got seated right away (well, it WAS 8:30). Good food. Hubby and I had sweet & sour shrimp. Keeper Boy & J-Mav had salmon. They both had the shrimp cocktail appetizer, too. I had a Caesar salad. Hubby had chicken fingers. For dessert, Hubby had a cheese plate. Keeper Boy & I had chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream. J-Mav had vanilla ice cream.
After dinner, we went to the welcome show and now we are crashing. Good day. Had a really fun time talking at dinner. Everyone talked and laughed. Very nice.
Two funny things from Keeper Boy today:
First, when we were exploring the room, he opened the closet and said, "Oh! We have a microwave!" (It was the safe.) Next, at dinner, he thought the butter dish was a bell to summon the waiter. (In his defense, it did look kind of like a bell, but still...)
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