The Ford Ranch: November 8, 2015

Sunday morning bright and early. Out for a quick walk and greeted by the ducks and an Ibis herd. Can’t find the Iguanas we saw yesterday but certainly a very nice greeting from all those in attendance. We boarded the Regal Princess about noon along with 3,563 of our closest friends. This was certainly the newest and largest ship we had sailed on and it was going interesting.

The boarding was well organized and quick. Could it be we arrived early and planned well or did Princess just have their act together? I choose the first part. 18 decks to wander around on and we are high up on the 16th as far forward as you can get. Actually we are two deck above and right over the bridge. So for once we will see where we are going.

I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to board and feed this many but we never saw a hitch at all. Nice pizza lunch on board and then off to our cabin to unpack and ready ourselves for life boat drills.

And to my amazement we passed.

Many of you know that I enjoy a glass of wine on occasion and Regal Princess allows you to bring your own wine on board with just a few restrictions. So this cruise I flew a case with us from our own stock in Houston and opened a fine bottle of Behrens Family Cemetery to toast our sailing out of Port Everglades and to toast the celebration of an Eleven Year anniversary. Not a bad life. Wine, the Love Boat Song on the ship’s horn and good friends.

Clear sailing today but storm clouds on the horizon……

AWW I'm sorry I didn't bring food!