August 16, 2013

August 16, 2013

We slept until almost 8am. Was not as restful as we would have liked, but I think we are back on schedule. We had our Starbucks this morning and are now looking at our email and waiting for the car that will take us to Southampton.

On the flight from LAX we ran in a couple from our book club. They were sitting behind us on the plane, it is a small world. We talked this morning to a couple from Vancouver that we met on the bus from the airport. It seems that Canada has a lot of the same problems that we have.

Well we had our first problem. We got in the wrong car going to the port and were 20-minutes down the road before we figured it out. All of ours fault, I didn't ask and the driver didn't ask. No harm our driver was waiting for us and the people's whose car it was were also waiting.

We got to the ship about 1pm. With 3000 people coming aboard it was a mad house. We have priority board so it wasn't too bad for us. When we got to our cabin all of our luggage was there. We decide to go to the library so that Evelyn could check out some books. While I was there (it is part of the Internet room) I signed us up for our computer minutes. We each get 500 free minutes and I purchased a 100 more for $25. Hopefully that will last us for 28-day.

Our friends from Las Vegas, Elaine and Lanny Marin, are on board for the first part of the cruise. We are now waiting for the life boat drill which will happen before we sail.

After the life boat drill I stopped by the passenger service desk to pick up two more priority tender passes for Elaine and Lanny.

We then found Lanny and Elaine and sat in the wine bar and caught up.

We are having dinner at 7pm in the Coral Dining room. We only had to wait about 5 minutes to get a table for four. The food and the service was pretty good. We sat and talked for so long we miss the show.

I guess it's time to fill you in on our itinerary: we are on board the Caribbean Princess for 28-days of cruising the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. We leave from Southampton, England, and finish the cruise in New York City. It is two cruises back-to-back, the first part is 12-days and part two is 16-days. The ports on the first part are: St. Peter (Guernsey ), Cork (Ireland), Dublin (Ireland), Liverpool (England), Glasgow ((Scotland), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Edinburgh (Scotland), Inverness (Scotland), Le Havre (France), and back to Southampton. Part two at a later date.

Tomorrow our first port on the Isle of Guernsey. It will be a short visit as the ship sails at 2pm.


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Hal