NYC Day 3 / Cruise Boarding
Some ambitious person posted this picture on Facebook of the Escape arriving in the early hours this morning.
After leisurely packing, we met our son and wife for breakfast at Blue Bottle Coffee, then off to do a bit of shopping for things folks forgot to pack. To Michael’s to retrieve my iPad that I left there yesterday, then back to the Courtyard by Marriott New York Downtown Manhattan/World Trade Center Area to finish packing.
We Ubered over to Pier 88. Pier 90 is still not fixed from when a Carnival Cruise hit it a few weeks ago.
Checking in was quite painless, but waiting for the elevators to get to the Garden Cafe is always a PITA. Everyone wants to eat and there’s not really anything else to do yet.
As soon as they called the cabins open, the Cafe cleared out.
Our luggage arrived almost as soon as we did. I checked out the balcony, of course, and it’s hot out there.
Not much exciting. We read for a while on the balcony, had dinner, checked out the other decks to see what’s here, walked around the decks and an early bed.
At Sea, January 13, 2013
We woke up in the morning and it was very foggy, so foggy we couldn’t even see see the river. We got our bags repacked up and visited the little shops again in case there was something we missed.
The bellman took luggage to the taxi but the driver wasn’t quite sure how to get to the port. He did find it after a bit and we were on the Navigator of the Seas in about 30 minutes and having lunch at Windjammer Café.
Even though our luggage hadn’t arrived yet, we went to our cabin and checked out where storage space was hidden.
4:00 PM was the required muster drill. The Captain said we’d have fog horns going until we passed another cruise liner at 11:30.
Sat in the solarium for a while to people-watch.
Up to our cabin. I took a few pictures from the balcony. I read on the balcony for a while and dozed off. Susan napped.
5:30 we went to the circus parade. What fun!
This wasn’t “our” circus but it was from our ship in September
My pictures:
Then dinner at Coppelia
We have a table for 4. Our table mates, Pat and Jamie are from the desert in California and drove here to see the National Parks and such. They’re aunt/niece and travel well together.
Luis (from Nicaragua), our waiter, forgot to take my order at first. All following meals I would be first! i had drink of the day, key lime pie lemonade, vidalia onion tart, prime rib/veggies/potato and chocolate cherry pie. Joanna, our assistant waiter, was from Poland. I think they said the staff was from 143 different countries.
Went to the show. Dancers, comedian. Great band…they played Sing, Sing, Sing!
Walked around. Luggage arrived when we got back! Unpacking
Tried to sign up for 2 tours from tv. Didn’t work so I filled out a form and dropped it at the excursions desk. Susan got ice cream at Ben and Jerry’s.
Unpacked. Ordered room service breakfast.
Foghorn did keep going off. Very foggy!
We passed 2 cruise ships very close, a Carnival and Norwegian. After the carnival, a pilot ship pulled up right beside us and picked up 2 pilots who had been on our ship. The dots on the pictures are the dense fog.
I fell asleep almost immediately.