If the weather is nice I will always make the effort to leave the ship. Even in Port Canaveral. Some people reading this will think I am crazy; “It is March, you’re in Florida”! This particular port of call is a pain in the ass. Once you get through customs, there is a standing room only bus ride that takes 35-minutes get to the mall. Lucky for me, today the wonderful ladies at the MSA were able to get me through the immigration agents before everyone else... I’ll be dropping off some cookies to them later today.
While at this little restaurant I was able to enjoy a sandwich, salad and the most delicious thing of all FREE WIFI. It always makes being away a little easier when I get to chat with friends who are back home in Canada like Shelley (Burlington), Kevin (Halifax), Matt (Toronto), Tea (Ottawa) and some screen time with my wife Lynette (Milton).
As I type this blog the Cruise Director Butch is welcoming the guests who just arrived on the Carnival Dream and letting them know that they must go to the mandatory safety demonstration. He is so smooth when delivering his message over the ship wide intercom... you just know he is smiling while doing it. Trouble is, right now there is a group of butt-heads trying to tell some of the staff that they don’t need a safety briefing because they took a cruise 5 years ago and they know how the life jackets work (in my head I heard a southern accent when I typed that). This cruise won’t be so bad, but let me tell you, the 4-day booze cruise staff deal with those kinds of morons every time they sail....
... I take that back. Butch just made a second announcement to let the people who are in the jacuzzi, on Lido deck eating and who are on their balconies that the ship can’t sail until EVERYONE reports to their muster stations; “WE CAN SEE YOU”, he said, “there are cameras all over the ship”!
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