Saturday, December 30, 2023

Day 3 – Saturday, December 29,2024

After the rain day yesterday, we awoke to no rain – YEA!!

We had met a driver yesterday and he pickup us up at 10:00am and took us the short distance to the cruise terminal for us to board the Celebrity Reflection The last time we were on this ship was in January of 2020.  There are bitter sweet memories of that trip in 2020 as on this ship Ed won a large tournament and had one of the highest winnings of any trip.  At the end of the cruise, we travelled to Tampa and boarded the Carnival Horizon and on that trip, Barb got sick and was hospitalized in Aruba. 

But everything turned out all right, Barb is healthy and we are looking forward to a great trip this year.

We are meeting friends from New York, the Wurst and the Schlachters and we met them both on previous cruises and have sailed we think every New Years for quite some time.  Great times ahead with wonderful friends.

Check-in was fast and we dropped off our carry-on bags in our room and went to the back the ship to meet our friends and it was sooo good to see them once again.

We spent several hours just siting and talking and the weather was great – 70 and little wind.

Then it was time walk around and then go back to our room and unpack our carry-ons.

Finally, our bags came and we unpacked and got ready to go to dinner. 

Dinner was excellent and we also celebrated the other Barb’s birthday.

After dinner we went to the show and it was a singer and she was pretty good.

Then of course it was time to go to the casino.  It is always fun the first day to see if there were anyone that we knew from before and there was.  The Casino Manager, Sol was there, the Host None and one of the Pit Bosses, Arthur were all staff that we had cruised with before so that was very nice.

Unfortunately, our luck did not hold as both Ed and Barb lost a little.

We are setting the clocks forward one hour so it is time to go to bed.

Night for now

                                            Ready to leave for the ship


                                            The view from our cabin


                                                    Ed's first plate at lunch


                        Left to right - Ed, Barb, David, Barb, Jeff, Vera


                                                    The center atrium


                                Going out for the evening


 

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