Triumph Review Jan. 21 to 29, 2005

We (Margaret689 and StreRan) decided to get to Miami a day early, arrived @ the Miami airport roughly 11:30am....Got our luggage, called the hotel/motel for the shuttle... Arrived @ Days Inn Airport around 1:30pm...checked in...found our room and changed into some summer clothes.... We decided to take a walk around, found a small restaurant, got a bite to eat...Went back to the motel.. Too late to go to Parrot Jungle, as we were planning... Talking w/a few people on our roll call thread we had set up a mini meet and greet @ Bubba Gumps Shrimp Factory... So shortly after 4pm..we took a cab to Bay Side Market... Walking around checking out the various shops, restaurants, U name it they have it (just about)... Charter boats for some deep sea fishing, evening cruises, a Pirate ship.... All sorts of things that U could do!!!!.. Got a couple of drinks @ Just Daiquiri's (sp)... and an outdoor concert was going on... the guy was playing a lot of reggae, and even some American songs... After the concert we took another walk around and got a phone call from Mindy (CruiseKazy63) and her DH (Dennis)... Marg and I met Mindy and Dennis, and also Maggie (moosincnaz) and her DH (Dennis)... @ the entrance of Bubba Gumps... Maggie went and made reservations for all that maybe coming...Sitting outside, having a drink, we decide on checking on the reservations and come to find out a couple of people r @ our table... So we all go to our table and we meet Bruce (Bar Service), his DW, Sue (Yellowbird), and Bruce's children.....Jessica, Nicole, and Jeff.. Also @ the table we meet Marla (Imagine757) and her mother, Olga...I think we all had a great time meeting everyone...and the food was real good also... it was getting late so unfortunately we all had to leave to go to our respective hotels/motels...Marla and Olga was staying @ the same place as Marg and myself.. So we shared a cab ride back to the hotel...

Embarkation ..... Marg and I signed up for the 10am shuttle to the port..... Got to the port around 10:30am...a porter met us, since we had a guarantee stateroom...He gave us a list to find our assigned cabin...the porter gave us new tags for our luggage, after tipping the porter we head to the terminal, once inside we see Bruce and his family, also Mindy and her group.. We sort of cut in line and join Mindy, Maggie, and the Dennis's....the line moved fairly quick and w/out any major challenges we made it onboard the ship shortly after noon....Maggie had left her purse @ the scanner section.. and her and Dennis disappeared for awhile....They came back w/ her purse and everything was fine...... Everyone went there separate ways....as we were given some papers that said we couldn't get to our cabins until after 1:30 pm....Marg and I explored the ship for awhile.. got some food on the Lido deck ( forgot how good the hamburgs and hot dogs were)...After we ate we found our cabin and dropped off our carry on...then went back to exploring the ship...... Had a couple of the Funships (the drink of the day)... Got to be close to Myssie's (Mao) favorite activity the Life Boat Drill.. Went back to our cabin...and awaited for the fun...(just kidding)...Went to the muster drill no big deal except u can't have any drinks w/U...Back to the cabin...to drop off those smelling life jackets... and to put on our lei's, headed towards the Spa Deck to meet everyone else we were talking to on our roll call thread... Read more