Day 4 – Saturday, December 30

Today is a sea day and we had hoped that we would sit out on the top deck in the sun all day.

Unfortunately, when we woke up it was raining and while it finally stopped raining at about 10am, it stayed cloudy all day – so, no sun.

We had lunch as usual with our friends on the back of the ship and walked around a little before heading to the casino where Ed played in the blackjack tournament.  While he qualified for the finals, he did not win.

Basically, we then when back up to the room and go ready for the evening.

Tonight is Chic Night so a lot of the people, including us were dressed up and it was fun people watching.

The show tonight was production number by the entertainment staff and it was very good.

Then on to dinner where we had a wonderful dinner tonight.

Of course, after that we went to the casino where Ed won and Barb lost

Tomorrow we are at sea until docking at San Juan at 4:30pm and for sure we hope for great weather.

Take care – stay safe.

Day 4 – Saturday, December 30

Today is a sea day and we had hoped that we would sit out on the top deck in the sun all day.

Unfortunately, when we woke up it was raining and while it finally stopped raining at about 10am, it stayed cloudy all day – so, no sun.

We had lunch as usual with our friends on the back of the ship and walked around a little before heading to the casino where Ed played in the blackjack tournament.  While he qualified for the finals, he did not win.

Basically, we then when back up to the room and go ready for the evening.

Tonight is Chic Night so a lot of the people, including us were dressed up and it was fun people watching.

The show tonight was production number by the entertainment staff and it was very good.

Then on to dinner where we had a wonderful dinner tonight.

Of course, after that we went to the casino where Ed won and Barb lost

Tomorrow we are at sea until docking at San Juan at 4:30pm and for sure we hope for great weat

The pictures will not load - will try tomorrow.  Night on the way to San Juan

Take care – stay safe.

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