Sunday

Sunday consisted of the usual check-in fun. I wasnt really pleased that the people who checked in online had to wait about the same amount of time as folks who didnt. Whats the point? Anyway, so were doing the usual emergency drill fun that afternoon, and hundreds, no thousands (3400 guests on this ship + 1200 crew!) of folks are all lined up on the lifeboat deck in their lovely orange lifejackets. The drill is almost complete, when this older guy in a Hawaiian shirt comes strolling down the deck (in the 2 feet of outer deck space still unoccupied by people), no lifejacket, holding a bucket of beer, and looking as clueless as a priest in a topless bar. I have no idea what that was about, but it was funny as hell. What a GOOBER!

We went to dinner and actually had some very nice dinner companions, and since Mom approved, we dont have to ask to be re-seated (she tends to enjoy us being seated alone  there are benefits besides the obvious for doing it that way, but lets not get sidetracked, mkay?) Read more