EMBARKATION DAY ON THE EMERALD PRINCESS

Today was very smooth.  Came to the terminal for 12:00 and Pam walked down to give us a nice send off.  How great to see her.  We easily went through check in and security and then right on the ship.  We boarded the ship and then went strait to have lunch.  

Lunch was good and so nice to sit down after being in the lineup for security and all the walking.  Walking is only beginning as we are right at the bow of the ship and everything seems after or centre.  It will do us good with all the delicious food that we should encounter.  Drinks were wine and a shandy for me.

We made our way to the International Cafe to get a delicious latte.  We already made some new friends.  They were from 4 different areas...Grand Cayman, Langley and two other places.  Lol already I forgot the two other places.  They had already been visiting a couple of bars when we saw them, so although they were  happy and we had fun chatting with them.  They are a group of 12 traveling together.  Must have been hard to get all of them to find a time that would be convenient.  

We were able to make a dinner reservation in the dining room for tomorrow, but tonight tonight we were able to get into the BBQ rib place for our dinner.  Nancy was quite adamant she did not want to eat in the buffet.  Dinners are great in the dining room, however, breakfast or lunch is convenient in the buffet.  We walked through the buffet after our dinner and she thought she might try it for the earlier meal tomorrow.  They have sinks in the restaurants and the buffet to do hand washing.  They also have the hand sanitizers everywhere so there is no excuse to have unclean hands.

Dinner at the BBQ place wasn't wonderful.  The brisket was tough and didn't have a lot of flavour and the pork ribs were chewy.  My biggest problem was the cornbread had two types of spread.  I heard cheese pimento and honey and I thought just butter...however, it turned out it was honey, butter and jalapeno.  Ah my favourite...NOT!  Oh well, we won't be going there again anyway.  We will be going to the dining room for the rest of our meals.  My tongue was flaming for a bit, however, I was able to put the flames out with a lemon drop martini!

So after dinner we wandered around a bit and ended up back at the coffee shop for a Spanish Coffee!  You might have guessed we have a drink package.  It came with the gratuities and wifi - so it really was a good deal!

So day 1 is now done and ready to be put to rest as are we.  Talk at you again tomorrow.