We had been looking to seeing the new ship for a long time. We left out house shortly after 11:00 am and ran into some traffic at the pier. We didn't get into the pier until 12:15 but we were on the ship by 12:30 and having lunch by 12:45, having dropped off our luggage in our room, which was not completely ready yet. The room steward introduced himself and his assistant. It was an H the most forward ocean view cabin on deck 4. It was very warm in New York. We were delayed because there was a power outage on the newly redone pier (88) shortly after we were on the ship. It delayed the people who were at the pier and delayed our sail a way until about 5 so the pictures I took were of the Statue of Liberty at Dusk.

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We ate at Magenta this evening and had a very good meal well served. We spoke with the Maitre D and had an interesting discussion with him. It began to get very rough. Wind speed was indicated at 40 plus knots from the starboard quarter and increased to 70 knots (minimal hurricane speed) overnight. The sound of the waves slapping the hull was pretty noisy although we mostly slept through it. Read more