Noontime location check: N 17º 19′ W 83º 23′ The morning started with a bit of a lie-in. It was a combination of recovering from last night’s celebrations (Thanks Jerry for sharing your excellent Champagne), a bit of a Christmas cheer, and the fact that the ship was really rockin’ and arollin’. (Note; We, of […]
Normal start to the day – except that inclement weather forced breakfast to move to the World Cafe – which wasn’t all bad After breakfast (during which the ship docked in Cozumel) we briefly returned to our stateroom to make final preparations for our day. At about 9’ish – following a flurry of texts with
I apologize for the delay in getting this posted. Yesterday evening the interweb was so bad that I couldn’t get these few photos uploaded. I blame Cuba. Before I describe the day it occurs to me that a brief introduction to the ship might help you understand our day. Our cabin is on deck 4,
We woke up to a beautiful (translate: warm and muggy) morning. Breakfast, reserve shuttle time to the ship, off to CVS to finish our supplies shopping, and back to the room to chill for an hour before checkout, lunch, 1:00 shuttle. By the way, last thing before bed last night was confirmation that Australia will
Those who have followed other of my travel BLOGS know that “Day 0” is house cleaning / final packing / cleaning out the fridge day. Not so this trip. All that happened on Day -5, before we left for Oklahoma and early family Christmas. Today was a bit different as far as “Day 0” goes.
Up this morning and checked out of the hotel. Tonight we will share the Air-BnB with Hunts before leaving tomorrow morning for OKC, ATL, FLL and the hotel for our last night on land until much much later. We’re now at Kim’s house resting and recuperating from yesterday while the ‘rents took the kids to
The family gathered in Norman for an early Christmas. We opened presents, feasted on waffles and egg casserole, and settled in to play. After lunch it was time for a Christmas movie. While Kim led an expotition to the university to see her office Dinner was the typical Christmas feast So that’s Christmas in Norman.
We’re still a few days out from boarding but we’re heading to Norman for a family Christmas celebration before we leave the country. So far it feels like a normal trip to Oklahoma. It hasn’t occurred to us that we won’t see home again for many months. So we’ll take ’normal’ while we can and
Understanding that this itinerary is, at best, cast in jello – this is where it stands as of today. We’ll see where it ends up. My best guess is that I’ll know the itinerary once we dock in London on May 9. So having said that…
It’s gettin’ real. Yesterday we received our passports back from the visa service that Viking uses. We now have visas for Viet Nam, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia. We’ve been assured that visas for other countries will be delivered either on board or at the port. But that’s yesterday. This morning we made the