Sunday

My wife and I arrived on a direct flight from Boston.  Cab to the ship was $22 for the two of us and three bags.  We had to fill out a questionnaire about the Flu before we entered.  They asked if we had the flu or symptoms of the flu - would they have turned us away if we said yes that we recently had symptoms???  We dropped our big bags at the scanner at on the first floor and proceeded to the second floor where check in took only 5 minutes.  We both got our "Sail and Sign" cards which I call "Sailing Swine" cards since there's so many people who enjoy the good food.  Before going to the scanner for our carry on bags we stopped at the duty free shop and bought two bottles of rum (~$9 each) and put them in our carry on.  They only sold coke as mixers so we bought two twelve packs and took those through in shopping bag.  Normally we would go right to our room to unpack but they would not let us in until 2:30.  Not sure but I assumed they may be doing extra cleaning due to flu concerns.  No issues all week with sickness that I could see or heard anyone speak of.

After storing our carry-on items in the room, we walked around Old San Juan for a few hours.  We found a grocery store called "Super Max" near the Waldgreens - I think it was up a side street from where a Coast Guard boat was moored.  We were able to get Goya cans of Pineapple, orange, and Guava juice for mixers for the rum very cheap ( $0.50 for a 12 oz can if I recall).  If you follow the waterfront heading toward the El Morro there was an exhibit called something like "the world from the air".  They had 20-30 really cool pictures (~2ft x 4 ft) showing interesting places in the world from the air.  There is an ocean walk along the outside of El Morro that allows you to walk all the way to the entrance to San Juan Harbor - very nice walk, but bring a water bottle. Read more