An early rise the next morning - and a drove to San Diego (total about 12 hrs) to check onto the cruise ship.
Those things are huge!! There were 2000 'guests' and their check in procedure were a little long. I noticed at the last minute that my passport said "Child" instead of "Sharples" and I was fully prepared with my marriage license and both drivers licenses --- so there COULDN'T be any fuss over it.
Our room was pretty small - but very clean and nice. Here you see desk with mirror chair behind me...
Ben next to a towel animal (I'll get to that later), 2 beds pushed together but VERY VERY comfortable (I slept so good!). Ben says that one improvement was the available tv and movie channels - which is nice if you're sea sick or just want to veg...Note the fake window - There is just the wall behind those orange curtains! But it works -
Bathroom - I was amazed how hot the shower water was - ....then to think about how BIG the generator had to be to heat water for 2000 people! ... no wait.... Where are they keeping all that water! .... wow!
I think there are 12 decks in the whole ship - bottom 2 or 3 were for crew and service things. The 'decks/floors' had everything from food, bars, stages, pools, spas, mini golf, stores, bakeries, casinos, etcs. Whoa. Again - the size of this thing....This video is of the space running up the middle. There is a glass elevator to my right, at the bottom is the piano and bar, the service desk, the 'off shore excursion' info .... there is even a library!
That night we had dinner - explored the ship, went to the opening show ... and slept!
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I went on that cruise when I was 10 years old (thank the grandparents!). I got a box of scented matches from Catalina..which are still sitting on my dresser:)
Also, my favorite part of the trip was the spiral stairs in the ship. I could drop a bouncy ball down the hole and watch it drop 10+ flights. Then I'd run down the stairs to find the ball and do it again. If you didn't do this, I'd say you really missed out.
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