Notes from the Cruise

Well, sadly, it's now been a full month since our Caribbean Cruise launched. But I still have great memories of a nice relaxing week.

So what impressions remain in my head after being home for a month? Here's just a random few:

1. We're really 'Anytime Dining' people. That means you don't have a set time to go to dinner nor have an assigned table of dinner guests. Quite frankly, I sit through enough client dinners where I need to make small talk and pretend to be friendly that I don't need that on a cruise. (I know, I'm anti-social).

I liked the Grand Princess (which we took this time) better than the Caribbean Princess (which we took last time) because the "Anytime Dining" rooms had more personable "tables for two". I went on the cruise to become reacquainted to my spouse...and having private tables to have private discussions during dinner was AWESOME!

2. We were big fans of going down to the dining room for breakfast. Nothing wrong with the buffet, but we kind of liked having a "served" breakfast every morning.

3. On our first cruise out to St. Thomas and St. Maartin, it really felt like we were out in the middle of the ocean and far away from the world. This trip was kind of circumference of Cuba, so I kind of felt less isolated (unfortunately). I liked feeling like there's no civilization for miles around.

4. I like being entertained by a comedian! There's always a moment when you worry they may cross the line, but if they don't, it's so much fun. It's something I don't think I could do here in NYC...can't imagine there's a lot of "TV clean" comedians at the clubs. We also liked the comedian juggler.

5. As my brother and his wife were sailing on the same ship two weeks after we did, I set up a scavenger hunt on the boat to find certain words/letters, etc. It was actually a lot of fun for me! My favorite was sticking a business card in a Shakespeare book in the library....it was still there when he came to find it.