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seemoreroyals
Our driver " Sweaty Eddie" was an Indian but not of Native American decent. We will always remember him as part of this particular cruise experience. In fact if I concentrate enough I can still smell him. Anyway back to the cruise report. I am switching to the laptop and I will insert some pictures later.
After lunch and drinks and more drinks we decide to explore the ship so we would become familiar with the layout. And where all the bars were located. We had the unlimited drink package and as fate would have it we took full advantage during our time onboard. Our rooms were finally ready around 3pm so we went and checked them out and dropped off our carry on stuff. BTW we noticed when even though all of our drinks were free as long as we were within so many miles from Seattle our account was charged about $1 a drink for some sort of bs tax. We kept all of our receipts and between us even though all of the drinks we had were in the $6 to $10 range our bar tab if we would of had to pay for it was about $1500. That might explain part of the reason that it took so long to recover. And before I forget the ship we were on was the NCL Jewel Sept 5th - 12th. Sorry it has take so long to do report.
A little after 4pm we felt the ship begin to move. So we headed up to the sail away party by the pool. They had burgers, BBQ, a pretty decent band was playing, but more importantly they had a bar nearby. We stayed there for about an 30 minutes. It was way too crowded. We headed back down to what would become our home away from home for a great deal of time while we were on the ship: Magnum's Champagne and Martini Bar. We had every intention of having dinner about 5 and then catching the early Welcome Aboard Show at 7:15 but we starting visiting and drinking and enjoying the accoustic guitar player. Next thing we knew it was about 9PM and we missed dinner entirely and barely had time to make it to the late Welcome Aboard Show. It was okay. Throughout the trip we went to the main shows every night but we enjoyed the individual entertainers in the bars and lounges even more. Some time after the show was over we stumbled into the casino. After about 30 minutes of watching sassycat lose about $100 that was to be the only gambling session for either of us on the cruise. Afterwards we visited a couple of other bars on the ship and sometime thereafter we got some pizza somewhere though I can't tell you where and next thing I remember we were back in our cabin. The only reason I know we had pizza that night was because when we woke up next morning we had a plate with 3 or four small pieces of pizza crust on it. To be continued.......
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