Note: I cannot add more photos today, other than the above, due to the poor WiFi signal aboard the ship. Once we arrive in Nevada in early September, we can post our photos from Edinburgh and this cruise. Of course, we’ll continue to try to add photos each day! We are sorry for the inconvenience. Perhaps, when this cruise ends, we can start posting photos while on the upcoming Celebrity cruise in 4 days. We’ll continue taking photos and writing text daily, if possible.
In two days, we’ll disembark this ship in Amsterdam and are scheduled for the shuttle to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, where we’ll fly to Reykjavik, Iceland, where we’ll stay overnight in a hotel to sail away on the Celebrity Summit the following day. Our scheduled cruise check-in time is noon, but we often arrive earlier and have no problem getting checked in.
Tom just left the coffee shop to head to our cabin to see how much cabin credit we have left. Any unused portion is forfeited, so I will purchase something in the shop to ensure we have nothing left when we disembark. The items in the shop are so expensive; it’s hard to find anything with almost $200 left. But I will figure something out.
Also, since we were overweight in our two bags, it makes no sense to purchase the ship’s logo wear or anything that would add to the weight of our bags.
This morning there is a fantastic brunch buffet in the main dining room. A few minutes ago, I toured the buffet to see what they had that worked for my way of eating, and there were more options than I could imagine. Since it’s a sea day with passengers filling up all the seats in the coffee shop and us needing to sit here to do the post, I may go eat on my own.
Tom has been having breakfast without me the past week while I stayed in the cabin to shower and dress for the day. I am not hungry early in the morning and prefer to eat closer to noon. Since he won’t be hungry by noon, I’ll probably wander over and grab a plate of the delectable offerings.
Last night was another fine evening. At 4:00 pm, we played trivia in The Living Room (losing, once again) and chatted with our two newly-made delightful friends from Edinburgh. By 6:00 pm, we returned to the cabin to change for dinner and headed to the Discoveries Bar for a drink before dining in the main dining room.
Once again, we sat at a shared table and, as always, had an enjoyable dinner with the other passengers at our table. After dinner, we did a little “bar-hopping” to listen to various quality entertainment while chatting with other passengers. As we expected, it’s been a very social cruise, and we couldn’t have had more fun.
In the next 48 hours, we’ll have packed our bags, leaving clothes out to wear on the last night and day since our bags will be taken away on Wednesday night and left at the port to pick up after we disembark. We are familiar with this process since this is cruise #31 in almost 11 years.
That’s it for today, dear readers. Again, we apologize for the lack of photos. We will make up for it before long. Hopefully, on this next cruise, we won’t encounter such issues and will be able to post photos as they occur.
Be well.
Photo from ten years ago today, August 15, 2013:
