We arrived early in the morning at the port which turned out to be a good thing. To enter the port you need cruise documents and ID. The car in front of us had to open their trunk to find theirs. After waiting a while for that to end we preceded to the terminal. I left my family at the VIP check in and went to park our car.

Upon arriving back at the VIP check in the line had grown to over fifty people. Lucky for me the people in front of me didn't have their documents out when they needed to show them. Once I went through baggage check I went up to the VIP area. The computers were down. Once passengers arrived their name was written on a piece of paper to be called when the computers were finally working. After waiting a while our name was called. We checked in and were called to board just a short time afterwards.

We took our boarding photo and sail & sign photo and were on our way on the gangway. I was stopped in the gangway by a man who said he was a government employee and that I could not take his photo. What? Ok. After I went through the motions to delete the photo that had him way in the background we made it to the ship. Read more