One week on the cruise ship went so quickly, and here I am back home again, and happy to be here, although there were some wonderful moments, some wonderful scenes and some wonderful people...I'm not sure if anyone reads this blog anymore, but it is a diary for me...and so I'm putting a few highlights from the Bermuda trip here.
#1. Anyone going on a cruise should realize it's a big big ship, learn where the most important places to you are located..it took my friend and I a week and by then it was time to go home..we spent so much time running around wondering are we mid ship, aft, port , hey where the heck are we.
#2. If you enjoy swimming - I do, go there at least once a day, get in the hot tub, really soak it up, enjoy...I missed the first two days as we were just getting used to the whole scene.
#3. Walk the promenade around the ship - it's at least a mile, you will walk off all the pounds you put on by eating at all the great restaurants, by the way the food is terrific. I managed to lose weight...walking at least 4 or 5 times around the ship..top and promenade decks - the views were super...the sun the water the people, just great.
#4. When going on a tour, listen to where you are supposed to meet, We did but then forgot...we were lost in Georgetown, missed the bus, and luckily it found us on it's way back to the ship..what luck!!! The ship's trip coordinator was not thrilled with us...we managed to be known as the pair that got lost...not exactly the way we wanted to be known.
#5. Check out the shows each night - where and when the ones you are really interested in will be, if you are like us, write it down,get there early enough..Trouble is everything is interesting and fun, we'd start to go somewhere and end up at a different place altogether..If you like casinos, go for it. I don't gamble too much, but my friend with my help had a blast..She won 3 bottles of champagne, 18$, and a bottle of chardonnay. She shared the champagne with the people who helped her to win and myself..great!!!
#6. Space yourself go for a quiet time to listen to good jazz, dance your head off on the top deck near the pool, have fun, and enjoy all the different people you will meet..especially unreal was getting in the hot tub and when the woman next to me asked where I was from, turns out she was from Kahanawake, was in the same class as my son in high school, and knew my son-in-law...then to top it off , I met her in another hot tub the next day..un-real..
#7.Make sure you read all directions, we thought we understood that by leaving our bags on the pier with the green tags, that meant they would be collected and put on the bus...WRONG...we were supposed to collect them, and the sign we thought was the woman leader was holding and telling us to get on the bus was right, but we should have had our suitcases with us..that was too bad, now our suitcases that are still in Boston, will be sent to us by FED EX....yikes..
All in all I think I'd go cruising again, but now I am a little wiser, I hope.
What would Mac say about all this...he'd say "I'd never take a cruise in the first place...it's just one big buffet"
We did take a cruise...on a freighter and we were two of only twenty passengers and it was great, we saw all outports on the north shore of Quebec, Mac enjoyed watching them load and unload the ship...I loved the wonderful different places that one never get's to even hear about, like Harrington Harbour..the place where Le Grand Seduction was filmed, in fact we met the director and actors in the film...a wonderful memory.
But This was a first voyage for me on a huge Luxury Liner,it was fun, not Mac's cup of tea..but life goes on, and though I missed him, I said hi each time I looked out at the wonderful sky and sea, and think I saw him and I think he saw me...g'nite.
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