Monday and Sailing away
Monday rolled around and I didn't have to work! always the best when that happens!!! Our fancy bed and breakfast provided another great meal (muffins, some apples and meat & cheese roll-ups from Costco) before we did a quick load of laundry and repacked the bags - as we were off to the port!
Took about 90 minutes and we were dropped off at berth 25, which is the terminal they remodeled for the new ship, The Edge, last year. We were not fortunate enough to be able to dock there last time since Edge was in port, but we had the opportunity this time and boy was it nice! Especially because it has a dedicated suite line, so we were onboard within 20 minutes - dropped the bags and off we went. Here's the one photo I took, of us standing in line for a few minutes. It's a very pretty terminal, but I didn't take too many photos.
After we got onboard is when our problems happen....this ship has 2x the number of suites and the same size restaurant and suite areas as the other Solstice class ships - and they had a surprise CDC inspection, which meant the restaurant opened about 30 minutes late. So we ended up waiting for about 40 minutes for a table, which was not the best, but that's what happens sometimes. We sat in the lounge (Michael's Club) for a bit, and left the wheelie bag with all the diet tonic up there so we didn't have to carry it around. Lunch was very tasty, I had a small filet and some chocolate cake. And some wine.
Timing was great, the lunch took long enough that the room was open and our bags were there and we then spent the next hour unpacking and putting all our stuff away. We met our cabin attendant (Catherine) who seems very nice - and we got everything put away before we had to go to the muster drill. Our assigned station was in Blu, which is the restaurant for Aqua class.
We got there right around 315, and it usually takes about a half hour - and true to form it took just about that long, and we waited a few minutes before we headed out to find a bar - ended up at the Martini Bar (of course) and ran into a few people we know from last year's cruise (Matt and Jerry) because that's how we roll. A few lemon drops later we were waiting to sail - apparently they had a delay getting away from the dock because of the CDC inspection,
We quickly got changed for dinner, since it opened at 545pm and we wanted to get there before all the crazy started, since we knew how crowded it would be once the hordes descended.
We ended up with a nice window table and had some great food for dinner.
Here's the menu, I had the Moroccan Chicken with saffron cous cous (delish!) and started with the French Onion soup from the regular menu - and Chris had the braised short ribs (which were fantastic) and the grilled NY steak, and for dessert - the Chocolate Napoleon cake (not bad) and then we headed back to the room to pick up some diet Tonic, which is when we met our butler Alen. He'd apparently been chasing us all over the ship - as when he came by the room, we were unpacked and gone already, so he went down to Luminae and we had already left (apparently we move fast!) so he guessed we'd be in the room. Good call! He commented on all our diet tonic and the cashews and peanuts we had for snacks, and offered to bring some potato chips for us. I love me some salty snacks! So we then headed for Michael's Club with a bottle of diet tonic and spent a nice evening chatting with Maria (the bartender, from Serbia) and some other guests - but then it was time for bed!
Took about 90 minutes and we were dropped off at berth 25, which is the terminal they remodeled for the new ship, The Edge, last year. We were not fortunate enough to be able to dock there last time since Edge was in port, but we had the opportunity this time and boy was it nice! Especially because it has a dedicated suite line, so we were onboard within 20 minutes - dropped the bags and off we went. Here's the one photo I took, of us standing in line for a few minutes. It's a very pretty terminal, but I didn't take too many photos.
After we got onboard is when our problems happen....this ship has 2x the number of suites and the same size restaurant and suite areas as the other Solstice class ships - and they had a surprise CDC inspection, which meant the restaurant opened about 30 minutes late. So we ended up waiting for about 40 minutes for a table, which was not the best, but that's what happens sometimes. We sat in the lounge (Michael's Club) for a bit, and left the wheelie bag with all the diet tonic up there so we didn't have to carry it around. Lunch was very tasty, I had a small filet and some chocolate cake. And some wine.
they could not load the provisions until after that was over, so we didn't leave until about 515pm, and we had returned to our room for the sailaway, which was quite pretty.
We quickly got changed for dinner, since it opened at 545pm and we wanted to get there before all the crazy started, since we knew how crowded it would be once the hordes descended.
We ended up with a nice window table and had some great food for dinner.
Here's the menu, I had the Moroccan Chicken with saffron cous cous (delish!) and started with the French Onion soup from the regular menu - and Chris had the braised short ribs (which were fantastic) and the grilled NY steak, and for dessert - the Chocolate Napoleon cake (not bad) and then we headed back to the room to pick up some diet Tonic, which is when we met our butler Alen. He'd apparently been chasing us all over the ship - as when he came by the room, we were unpacked and gone already, so he went down to Luminae and we had already left (apparently we move fast!) so he guessed we'd be in the room. Good call! He commented on all our diet tonic and the cashews and peanuts we had for snacks, and offered to bring some potato chips for us. I love me some salty snacks! So we then headed for Michael's Club with a bottle of diet tonic and spent a nice evening chatting with Maria (the bartender, from Serbia) and some other guests - but then it was time for bed!
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