embarking day.. well we embarked without incident walked in to terminal checked our baggage an proceeded down the entry way to terminal check in whats this!! No LINES!!! I can hardly believe what I am seeing we will not be lead like a herd of cattle, awesome!!! we get our sail and sign card walk up the gangplank and onto the most sophisficated atmosphere, there is a trio playing on the platform and hardy anyone around about a dozen people sitting an enjoying the music we are directed to our cabin unfortunately sent the wrong way not much English is understood by our guides we finally ask some one and they pointed us to the correct location we reached our cabin, it is about the size of an inside cabin on carnival but we do have a balcony we arrived with 5 suitcases and managed to empty them and put ever thing away, alt-ho the drawers are awfully small and shallow but we managed, I bought my trusty shoe hanger so we can put the little items in it so as not to use up the drawer space, we decided to go have something to eat as it was dinner time when we boarded what no lines again, are we on the right ship!!! we ate dinner came back to cabin found out we missed the muster drill it was held while we were eating dinner, take mental note of where we are suppose to go Muster station, we got back to the cabin and unpacked and while unpacking knock on door, it was Brian from Canada who I had been in touch with on cruise critic introduced ourselves and we made arrangements to meet at 9 pm at the reception lobby,

we finished unpacking and pushed our suitcases under the beds so we would have more space, and then headed downstairs, we met Brian and then the 3 of us went on a tour of the ship to see where things were, Brian turned in early as he had been up since 5 am and we went to the front of ship and sat to wait to Leave NYC. about 1 am the ship backed out of its docking space and proceeded to pass the statue of Liberty no matter how many times we pass her coming in and going out its just something you have to see we went back to our cabin and we watched the verrazano bridge from our balcony it was pretty windy and cold out so it was a short time out there, then we came in and settled down for the nite as soon as my head hit the pillow I was done for.

Day 2 we had ordered room service for this morning very simple menu not much in the way of choices a little disappointed but that was ok for we would eventually get up to the breakfast buffet, just need coffee and something to tie us over as with 1 bathroom and two women it does take time to get ready, went to breakfast we wound up in dinning room at not the buffet it was very quiet in there not many people we were a bit surprised, we did some more exploring and wound up back in cabin to watch some TV. Read more