Two busloads of happy cruisers from the hotel. We were transported past ground zero where there is such a bustling amount of construction going on it staggers my imagination.
To the ship, [it sails from Brooklyn], and in mere minutes we were on and in our cabin.
SURPRISE! It is gorgeous.
We got upgraded a week ago by our travel agent. We have a mini-suite. Skads of room and beautifully furnished. The suite is more like an English Boutique Hotel than a ship's cabin. This is about the best since Oriana 11 years ago. Plus the biggest balcony yet.
We had a quick bite to eat at the buffet and then to our cabin where our luggage was waiting for us. Fellette unpacked until we had life-boat drill, then back to unpacking. Fellette says that this is the first time ever that we have more drawers and cupboard space than we have clothes for.
By the way, we met three lovely English Grannies in the lift, [elevator] today. They had been ashore in NY today, they are taking back-to-back cruises on the ship. They told us they never got to see Greenland on the way over, too many icebergs! Very interesting. They also indicated that the crossing was what they called 'wobbly'!
Passenger mix: Canadian 38, UK, 102, American 451, plus others.
The adventure starts.
[Gail and Jim, if you are reading this, please excuse the exuberance, but we are absolutely delighted regarding the cabin because for the last several times we have sailed the cabins kept getting smaller and smaller. Mind you Jim, we paid too much for this so curb your enthusiasm until you board this lovely little ship in about a month's time.]
[Ruth, the internet appears to be working just fine, time will tell when we get away from NY.]
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