All Aboard

Breakfast in the hotel dining area- I had the other half of my "tea cake" from yesterday. I asked for my icepack, which I asked to go in the freezer last night. Apparently they put it in the fridge instead. The nice young man put it in front of the freezer blower, and I picked it up as we were leaving. Our Uber arrived to take us to our ship, NCL Star at the Horizon Terminal. Except that our parking space was occupied by a Disney ship. One of the security people told us that Star was at Queen Mary 2's berth (about a mile away). It took awhile, but we finally got there. I felt really badly for the people who were walking from the bus stop. I found out there were Quay shuttles - hope they were able to find them quickly. We dropped off our bags, and went to check in.

It doesn't always happen, but our Latitudes actually had an express benefit. We checked in right away, then stood in a short security queue. Quick & easy. We boarded and went to our muster station, then to O'Sheehans where we had Chef salads and waited (at our server Jonathan's suggestion) until our stateroom was ready.

We received a Diamond upgrade to balcony 11620- nice setup, decent sized balcony. The Bowcam channel was playing Hawaiian music. I was texting with Julianna who rightly noted that they should be playing ABBA.

We had dinner at La Cucina- Wayne had pasta e fagioli and scaloppini al Marsala, with panna cotta for dessert. I ate the shrimp portion of pasta al gamberi. We watched The Five at Ten, set the clocks forward, and to sleep.Read more