According to our paper work, we have had a total of 7 days at sea on this cruise. Our ports have included Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarata, Gutemala , Costa Rica, Panama Canal Transit, Colon, Columbia and ending in Miami. It has been a perfect amount of ports and days at sea. The days at sea have been a lot of fun and tend to be a lot of the same kind of things.
We get up in the morning (usually me first) and I find a place to sit near the back of the ship (quieter there) and slowly the rest of the clan come wandering in. I start with a danish and coffee and once the rest of the peeps come in I have my egg’s benny and hash (why don’t we have that in Canada) and probably more coffee. We usually land up staying back there for awhile and then we wander around from there.
Usually a lot of our day is spent on deck near the pool. Some of us go swimming, some just sit on the deck chair and read, and some sleep the day away LOL. If you don’t get a lounge chair early, you probably won’t get one, unless it is pouring rain and then you can easily get a deck chair outside HA HA HA.
Lunch is usually at the grill where the hamburgers and hot dogs are good along with some really good salads and fruit. Afternoon is the same as the morning, with a few fun things in between. Doug has been going to the talks by a stand up comedian, and I have been going to the scrapbooking sessions to work on my picture pages or do the blog. The movie selection hasn’t been that great, but I think Doug has gone to a couple of them. I went to one call the Conspirator but didn’t really like it.
We have made it to all the dinners… and boy have they been good. Our wait staff has been incredible and our maitre d’ (Dal) has been even better. Mom has been treated really well with her gluten free requirements. Early on in the trip we asked about a word on the menu (Succotash) and now everytime he sees us, he says that to us. We even asked about boxes of plantains that were put on the ship and he told us it was only being used as garnish. When we showed disappointment in that, he brought us a plate of them for us to have one night. We all love Plantains and need to learn how to cook them. By the way, anyone who knows me, knows that I do NOT like banana’s, but Dal said I should try the banana’s foster, and so I did.
Since we are sailing during the rainy season of this area, we have had some amazing rain storms. As you can see from this picture it can rain here and this day we got a great thunder and lightning storm too. We were all cheering when the lightning struck and right away there was a huge thunder noise… what a great show this was.
Evenings usually consist of us going to the show around 9pm (early to get a good seat). They have had a lot of good comedians which has been nice. The deaf interpreters have been amazing (early post has a pic of them) and yesterday they got flowers from the ship staff and a very large applause from the audience. They have been more fun then most of the acts because it is so entertaining to watch them translate the words into hand signs. Once the comedians figured out what they were doing, then the fun began. They would say words just to see what the hand sign was for that word. Turns out “cheeky monkey” was everyone's favourite on board. These two people have become famous and everyone wants to talk to them. I gave them my name and hopefully they will request a facebook friend.
Depending on what is going on after the show, we either do a little something else, or go to bed. Sometimes we have to get up early the next day, so we have been going to bed early at times. Tonight will be early again as tomorrow we have to get up early to get off the ship and pick up our rental car.
We have loved the Millenium and look forward to sailing on Celebrity again. They have a great quality product and it has been so much more relaxing than Carnival. I love Carnival though, but it just isn’t as relaxing and low key. The Captain’s club perks have been great and because we were CruiseCritic memebers, we got a great party and a bridge tour.
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