June, 17, 2017

Good morning,

Well thing quieted down some what over night. We still have deep swells and some white caps, but now we are not moving like drunken sailors, just tipsy ones! LOL

Ed went to a meeting this morning with the Captin and found out some interesting information, seems the Pacific Princess, is an "ocean liner" not a "cruise ship" it has to do with the Hull design.  Cruise ships are designed to stay close to the shore, not to be in heavy seas.  So now we know, why this small ship took the heavy seas we've had, so well. 

Last night we had another great meal in the dinning room. We have been very impressed with the food on this ship. Haven't had a bad meal yet,,,,, not good,,,,, eating too much!  

We also went to the show, " An evening with Nat King Cole" sung by Donnie Ray Evens. He was wonderful, and having grown up with Nat's music, I can say from my perspective he sounded and looked very much like him.  So all and all it was a great evening. 

We lost another hour, so as I write this it is 2:09 here, and east coast it is 11:09, so we were late awakining again, oh well, it is " escape completely "  Right!

June 16, 2017 Sea Day

It is cloudy, and gray, 41*f for a high and 38*f low, and the sea's are gray and rough, we are bouncing pretty good.  The ship is handling it well. I have given up on posting photos, unless we are on land and have free wifi. So y'all bear with me and I will try to paint with words. 

If my post from yesterday really got on then you know about the day..... But I do want to give a quick review of the island, we found the people to be very friendly and helpful, they had a band playing when we disinbarked, and handed us little French flags, and maps of the island. To me that was saying we were welcome, and they were happy to see us. And we enjoyed our time there, and as someone said this will not stay this little sleepy island for long.  So yesterday after we took the tender back to the ship we just chilled out and watched the tenders going back and forth, and used some internet  through T-Mobile sitting on the balcony. 

Last night we did dinner, but both of us were too full, to do much else and the ship had started rocking and rolling so we called it a night. 

Today we woke about 7:30, with a Big Bang the ship evidently hit a big wave, so after much debate, we went to the dinning room for breakfast. Having Club Class, is really nice, almost as nice as being in a suite. We don't get to eat in Sabitinies for breakfast, but we do have our special area, and the same waiters we have at night in that area. At night the suite passengers share the same area.  And we can come pretty much when we want, within the parramators of the serving time. So we are liking it. 

Now on the agenda,,,,, not much, not a lot going on, we missed the movie LaLa Land yesterday, hopefully it will be on again. Today's movie, is Wilson, not sure we want to see that, but we'll see.  Tonight there are two thing we want to see, but we will need to skip dinner to see them,,,,, which, wouldn't hurt us a bit. 

Later,,, I'll try to get this out. 

St Pierre & Miquelon

This is a second time to try to post this, so it is still a beautiful day, cool about 50 F. We had a great morning eating French pastries and quiche Lorien I wi try the photos again. 

 

 

New Jersey

From the ferry, this may work yet! 

First and second sea day after NY

Well computer issues have continued to be a problem, not so much each individual component, but the thing as a whole. I won't bore you with all of that, it serficeis to say, I'm not sure this will ever get out eaither. So on to an update.

We had a wonderful time in New York City, the weather could not have been nicer. We went to Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty. Not enough time for either, but fun non the less. Even though our tour was only 5 hours, it was strenuous for most of us as it got warmer, and the sun was intens. We had planed on going back out on the streets, but having not had a healthy breakfast, and no lunch we simply ran out of gas, (energy).  We were hot and sweaty, so showers, were inorder and lots of iced tea. 

We met new friends Carol and John for dinner, and saw a great show after. Because we are in club class, we are being treated to special dinners, that aren't on the minue, like an awesome rack of lamb, then oscobosco, and last night it was Chilean sea bass!  The crew on this ship are over the top, from the Captin right down the line. Our cabin attended is one of the best we have had, Menione, and the people all over are the same, high standeard. 

Yesterday we lost an hour, and last night the same, so this morning we both slept until nine!  Last night was formal night, and the Captin hosted cocktail party. Different then other ships, no champaign waterfall, just as much champaign you could drink I'm two hours. 🍾. And then a wonderful dinner and great show, great singers and dancers

Today Ed and I are up on the top deck in the pacific lounge, looking out on an almos placed ocean with clear sky's and 47 degrees, getting colder for sure. I will see if this will publish, if so I will try photos next. 😏

Second Sea Days

Good Morning,

It is our second sea day since we left Ft. Lauderdale, and I am behind already,, so whats new?  So on to catching up.  

We awoke late in the AM on Friday, and that was OK as we didn’t plan to have breakfast anyway, as we had a big dinner with Kieran, our nephew the night before, and it was wonderful.  We eat too much and had too many Margaritas, so needless to say we were not hungry by morning.

So we finished our morning routines and finished stuffing our carryons only to find out later they were too big to carry on,,, so,,, on the pier we took out meds and the computer bag, and carried that on, it all worked out.  There was no rush, as we were the only ship in port.   So everything was easy.  The ship wasn’t ready, even though it was 1PM,  but they gave us a goodie bag, with water and a granola bar incase we were hungry.  We found out later that they had not been able to complete the dress up part of the dry dock, because they had rain almost the entire two weeks they were there, so things like changing out chairs and cushions were not delivered.  But the hull work was completed and all the electrical word was also done..  And we got a brand new bed, it is glorious, new carpet throughout the ship.

We boarded about 30 minutes later and found our cabin and met our room stuert, Menino, he is very good, so good intact he won’t be with us for the whole cruise he is being promoted,,, not sure when, but I’m sure we will miss him.  

We had our bags in our room, when we returned from lunch, and we started unpacking all the stuff we just had to bring, that took us that afternoon and all day yesterday to get it organized, which is why I haven’t posted.  

We have now experienced two dinners and on breakfast in Club Class and I will say it is nice, and the extra things in the room are really nice.  It is almost like being in a suite, and honestly our room is plenty big.  I have pictures, but at the moment I haven’t been able to get them over to the mac, I have an appointment with the internet guy at 7 to see if he can resolve it.  So until then I will just send this post..

Tomorrow NY