We love cruising, especially the long cruises. There are two days that aren't enjoyable as the rest, embarkation and debarkation. We had to vacate or room by 8 AM but our shuttle group didn't meet until 11:15. Once in Port at San Pedro we had Verizon MiFi service and Gerri tried to check in for our flight home only to find it had been cancelled. Gerri had to call Southwest and we were booked on a flight at 4:10 PM, only 35 minutes later than our original flight.
Even though some of the debarkation information said there was no room service, we ordered and got coffee in our room. Without rushing much we got the rest of our things packed and the room checked to make sure we didn't supply any items for the crew's next yard sale. We sat in the Piazza most of the time and then decided to go our shuttle meting point early. They ships crew had called our group early and we got there just in time to go out to the shuttles. The shuttle loading and drive to LAX went smoothly. We were unceremoniously dumped at our gate. There was a long unorganized line. Gerri checked in as I stayed with our luggage. Once we had boarding passes things sped up and we soon found ourselves at our departure gate with only 5 hours to spare. Gerri found power outlets and was hooked up to the world again.
I had awakened this morning with a sore throat and cough that turned into a full blown cold as the day progressed.
The flight arrived in Las Vegas on time and we only had a short wait before sister-in-law Wendy picked us up.
I made a first pass through the stack of mail, eliminating about half of it as obvious junk mail.
Once I went to bed on Tuesday night I was useless with my cold symptoms. We only have until the end of the month to get ready for our Alaska caravan. When I recover it will have to be double drill and half canteen to fit everything in.
What a great trip this was, much of it it wasn't new to us. We stopped at four Hawaiian ports as opposed to two on our last south seas cruise. We had also been to the other two island before, just not on a cruise. We also have a month long trip to Lahaina, Maui later this year. We went to one other country on this trip, Western Samoa.
I managed to do a cache in all the ports of call except Apia, Western Samoa. We found a total of 21 caches on the cruise and met several other cachers either at caches or at on board shout outs. My furthest west cache moved by a few miles and I got a DNF off my list in Bora Bora.
See you on the road to Alaska.
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