23 Sep

Day 1 – Embarkation

The day before, I left Orlando, where I had spent an awesome week with the Ladies of Leisure! 

You can read about it here.

I flew up to New York and stayed at a great Marriott in Times Square.  Nothing too exciting happened, I walked around the city a little and ate pizza.  That’s a good day, right?

This morning I called for a Lyft and I was off to the port!

I’m here!

This was a first for me, after 20 something cruises, this was the first time I had ever been on one alone!

I decided to eat in Cabanas for lunch.

I had ice cream after!

My room was ready soon after I finished, so I headed down. I had presents!

Here’s what was inside:

I was prepared for it to be weird to be in a room alone, but it wasn’t all bad! I had soooo many towels! Haha!

And so much space!!

We had our first meetup that afternoon, so I went to check in.

They gave us our swag:

We sat and talked for about an hour and learned our schedule for the week. We were all eating at Palo that night! Now that’s the way to kick off a cruise.

After we finished our meeting, I talked to a couple of agents for a little while and walked around and took pictures up top until sail away.

Hello, New York!

I went down to get ready for dinner after a little while.

Sailing out of NYC is the best! You can’t beat this view from your verandah!

Finally, it was dinner time! I was at a table with 7 travel agents who I didn’t know well, so I did not want to bring out my camera during dinner!

I took exactly one picture, of this loveliness:

And then it was bedtime!

We hit some serious waves that night.  We were rocking and rolling!

I had to get up during the night and put my hangers on the floor so they would stop banging! I put pillows in the closet door as well, so they would stop slamming. My neighbor did not, and I wanted to knock on his door and get him to do it so I wouldn’t hear his! Ha!

Canada and Maine With Disney!

Day 1 – Embarkation 
Day 2 – Sea Day 
Day 3 – Bar Harbor 
Day 4 – Saint John 
Day 5 – Back At Sea