Thanksgiving Cruise

I was not going to blog this trip but, this is a way for me to remember so here goes.

Monday we got a call from our TA telling us that the ship was going to be delayed coming to Ft. Lauderdale.  It appears the Captain got ill and had to be off loaded by tender to Dominican Republic.  His wife was with him.  He was to start his holiday when the ship arrived in Ft. Lauderdale.  When something like a Captain taking sick, they have a Staff Captain on board who is qualified to take over.

So we headed to Boca like we planned on Tuesday and when we reached the hotel, we asked for a late check out time as now boarding was no until 6pm.  We got to stay at the hotel until 1pm.  Oh well.  We went up to our room and rested until it was time for the Managers Cocktail hour.  We had dinner at the hotel and then back up to our room.  I watched some of Dancing with the Stars but went to bed instead.

Wednesday we had breakfast in the hotel and then back to the room where I watched the internet Dancing with the Stars.  You can not fast forward through the ads but they are not as long as regular TV.  We checked out of the hotel and headed to the Boca Town Center.  What a place.  We bought Bob and new iPad cover and then had a nice salad for lunch at the Grand Lux Cafe.  We continued walking the mall, this town center is all indoors, and stopped at Neiman Marcus (I know it is spelled wrong) and walked through it.  We stopped at a handbag and I asked Bob how much he thought it was.  He said $500.00 and it was really $2095.00.  I passed on buying it.

We headed to the port and dropped off the luggage at around 3:30 pm.  After parking the car, we were able to enter the terminal and wait for embarkation.  After about 45 minutes, we were on the ship.  We are in the owners suite.  Quite a beautiful suite but the bad part, it is in the front of the ship so you do get movement.  We had a muster drill and then back to the suite to dress for dinner.

Cocktails in the Club where no blue cheese stuffed olives until tomorrow.  They promise they will have them in all the Lounges.  Just two but a nice way to be treated.

Dinner was quite good.  I had the tomato soup and lamb chops which were wonderful, small but tasty.  No dessert.  Back to the suite and bed.  A long day but a good day.