And it's only day 2.
Day 0 - Travel
There was travel and pre-checked is great the rest we don't need to remember. It would only end in tears. (It involved running, and out-of-service phones.)
Day 1 - Enter the Emerald
We stayed at an interesting Ramada just outside the airport, and took the shuttle back to the airport in the morning to get on our airport transfer (bus) to the cruise terminal. After some travel through Houston we arrived, stood in line, checked in, stood in line, got to our room, stood in line, then made it to lunch and were quite happy to eat delicious food. There was a great beef thing and salad and all that. We shared a table with a couple from Utah and a couple from Houston.
As is customary, we explored the ship, had our saftey drill, and went hot-tubbing. We also got a tour of the spa, a short free massage, and entered their raffle where Myra was one of several people to win $100 in spa services (during port days). She was so surprised it took at least 2 seconds to respond after they said her name. (Their spa services are expensive so it doesn't go as far as we would like. But Myra gets a massage. Lucky her!)
Day 2 - We're Only Here for the Food
Mia and Myra, because they are crazy, got up at 7 and went to exercise. They'd done this at the hotel too, but where those machines were competely free, here there were others who were as crazy as they are. So after this morning of a failed attempt at getting machines (because the treadmills don't open until 8 although everything else opens at 6!) they decided to switch to morning swimming instead.
Breakfast was bacon and fruit and oatmeal and tea and tasty but too much food. So we weren't as hungry for unch but managed to down soup, cobb salad, and chicken korma anyway, leaving us professing we may never be hungry and true to our words we didn't eat again... until we went to dinner at 8. There was duck patte and mushroom soup, balsamic salid with goat cheese on cracker, sourbet to clear the palate, then a main course of beef medallions with quiche and vegetables. Dessert was a beautiful pink heart of layered moose and cookie. I can still taste it. C'est delicious.
But we weren't eating ALL day. We partcipated in Speed Sudoku in the morning and Trivia in the afternoon, tried to watch a 'Movie under the Stars' but it started to rain so it ended at Movie Trivia under the stars, watched a fruit and vegetable carving demonstration, entered a diamond raffle and got free pendants for showing up and asking for our free pendants (go Mia!), some swimming, some daring adventure, and some reading. Myra saw dolphins (this was before the rain, when all was good and sunny in the world).
It was an excellent day of much food and relaxation, and will end with a good if not rocky sleep, I guarantee.
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