One day and counting…Tomorrow’s the big day!…

No words can express how thrilled we are to be boarding our 47-night cruise tomorrow morning. Our local friend Carlos will arrive at 10:30 am to help Tom take our luggage down the three levels and load the taxi when it arrives. Some taxi drivers don’t help much with bags.

It’s a 20-minute ride to the cruise terminal, and when we arrive, baggage handlers will tag our bags and take them to our cabin later in the day. They guarantee we’ll have our bags by no later than 7:00 pm, so we will keep everything we may need with us until then.

The clothes we’ll be wearing when we arrive will be the same we’ll wear through dinner and the evening, so we won’t have to worry about unpacking everything when the bags arrive. Most likely, as always, we’ll unpack what we need and finish unpacking after breakfast.

Typically, we don’t unpack everything; we only unpack the items we’ll use on the cruise. Being organized is crucial in the small cabin with minimal storage space.

Today for dinner, we have enough chicken salad left for me, but not enough for both of us. This morning, I ordered Tom one last meal of lasagne from Uber Eats. We’ll scramble the remaining eggs to supplement the small portions of our main dishes.

This morning, Tom packed his clothes. We have one more load of laundry for later today and then we’re done, done, done. Tonight, will be relaxing while we finish a few shows we’ve been streaming since it’s doubtful we’ll stream anything while aboard the cruise.

On most evenings, while cruising, we stay out of the cabin until we’re ready for bed, only returning during the day to change for dinner and, if Tom needs a nap, possibly returning in the early afternoon. He never seems to sleep enough at night, so he gets up very early; a short 20-minute nap may be on the agenda.

That’s it for today, folks.

Be well.

Photo from ten years ago today, October 26, 2015: