At sea on Monday

2.02.2015 Monday

We easily got onto the ship on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale.  There were six other ships in port that day, so the traffic getting to the port was heavy.  We were onboard by 12:00, pretty early.  After lunch, we found Genel, our headwaiter from our last cruise on the Ruby Princess from New York to Quebec last fall.  He did an excellent job of helping John with his low sodium diet on that trip.  So we then went to the Maitre d' to ask if we could be transferred to a table in Genel's restaurant and area.  He was happy to accommodate our request.  At dinner Saturday, we met our new tablemates.  One couple is from Florida and the other couple is from Australia.  It should be a good table.

Sunday was a busy sea day.  The ship has a great sea day program.  There are port lectures, shopping lectures, maritime lectures and the usual trivia games and arts and crafts.  There were roughly 90 activities listed the ship's newsletter, the Princess Patter.  Additionally, many of the lectures are reshown on the tv system along with various live channel shows and movies.

There were lots of Seahawk apparel and fans, not much New England apparel, but there were fans.  The game was shown on the big outside screen and in one of the bars.  We missed the first part of the game while we were at dinner and then the bar was standing room only.  It wasn't too crowded up on deck 15 for the outdoor big screen, but it was on in the cabin, so we watched the rest of the game there.  However, we missed all of the commercials that the Super Bowl is famous for.  All of the commercials were ESPN related. 

Today, Monday, was much the same.  We went to several lectures and played trivia.  The seas have been rough both days causing John to wear his wrist bands.  They do work for him.

Tomorrow will be the first of five straight port days.  We will be in Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada and finally Trinidad.  We will try to post to the blog after each port day.  It will depend on the ship's internet which is slow and dependent on a satellite link.

Colleen and John