Day 01 - Fri - 08/07/26- Embarkation Day

 After a reasonable night's sleep, we woke up around 8am and prepared for embarkation day.  First up was a second visit to the hotel's wonderful breakfast buffet.  We really enjoyed it once again.  We then tried to learn where the bus pickup point was.  The front desk clerk didn't seem to know.  We walked around outside and found a bus stop for the regular city bus route and thought that would be the best way to the port which was about 2km or 1.2 miles away.

We retuned to our room and finished repacking and around 10:15am decided to check out and head for the ship.  A second clerk knew exactly where the pickup point was and that was comforting.  We made our way there (about 100 yards north of the end of the light rail station.  There was a temporary sign there and a line of people waiting.  A #25 bus shortly arrived and we were whisked to Terminal #1.  Arriving there it was a short walk to the luggage drop off point.  We then entered the terminal building and passed through security with only one annoying requirement: all cables had to be removed from luggage. We then went to the blue line and immediately were checked in.  The whole process took all of 15 minutes which was easily the fastest cruise check in for us ever.  

Since rooms were not available, we hung out in the LIDO area on Deck 14 and enjoyed some watermelon and cookies since we both weren't hungry.  Eventually we found our room at 2pm and it was ready.  Allie, our stateroom attendant, stopped by and introduced himself. After starting to unpack, we took a break and did our muster drill check-in and then explored the ship.  Our dinner was in the LIDO buffet 

Our evening entertainment was a trio, Pure Soul, featuring soul, R&B, and pop music.  They were only okay especially after seeing Earth, Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie earlier in the week.  Angela wrapped up her night at karaoke while I crashed.

Tomorrow is a sea day and it is the first of only two sea days on this cruise.  It's a very port intensive cruise to say the least with 7 straight days of port stops. 






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