Cease operations immediately and leave the building by the nearest exit or fire exit. Do not use the elevators. Do not use the elevators.

That’s what woke me up this morning (admittedly at 9:30) Not a pleasant way to start the day…

That’s right, I won’t be able to do updates from the ship. Kinda sucks I guess, but such is life. I will still do all the updates, then put a link up to the beginning of the cruise updates in the final entry.

We’re on board, and underway. We had supper a little while ago, met some people, tried to go to a show (that was full) and then went and had dessert. Our cabin is right at the back of the ship, so we can basically step out our cabin door to a deck which looks like it will be mostly deserted - nice and private like at any rate. The ride hasn’t been super smooth to this point, so hopefully it smoothes out some. It kinda feels like I’m sitting on a vibrating bed typing this up. There’s only one plugin in the room, but that’s not a huge deal, the laptop won’t need charging if we only use it plugged in, and the camera can charge overnight.

We’re doing “Personal Choice” dining, which means that we can go for supper when we feel like it, and get seated then - no worries about the strict 6:30 and 8:15 dining times. Supper was good, if unspectacular - I’ve certainly had better at Poverinos back home. Speaking of which - we haven’t run into anyone who knows where the *&%$*% Saskatoon is :) Not really surprising, though we haven’t run into any Canadians yet either. <Sarcastic Comment about Americans view of Canadians Deleted >

I forgot to pack a belt, so we had to buy one for an exorbitant rate, though not as bad as it could be. Hmmmm. I don’t know what else has happened since the last update. Oh yeah. We went for breakfast at the hotel - it wasn’t great, but the fruit was fantastic. The waiter asked if we wanted Coffee or Orange Juice, and we declined, but then I remembered that we were in Florida, so we asked for some juice after all. Now, normally I don’t care for Orange Juice much, but this was so completely unlike any orange juice I’ve ever tasted, it’s not even funny. Very freshly squeezed from very fresh oranges I suppose. Super good OJ.

After that, we waited outside with our luggage for a while, basically waiting for the bus to arrive. There were a whole bunch of busses going to a whole bunch of ships - its a wonder that we have our luggage, though it’s mostly because we made damn sure it was on the same bus as us, tagged properly and everything. Nothing worse than having your luggage somewhere that you’re not. After waiting in line for what seemed like a long time to get on a bus, we got driven to the ship. Then we got to wait in a super long line to go through security, then another super long line to get our room keys, then a shorter line to get on the ship. We learned all about long lines. I literally have never spent so much time standing in lines - not even when we went to the Ex last time…

I suppose I should help Erin unpack, since she’s basically done now :)