2015-11-8 Embarkation day!

It was an easy embarkation day for us!  Since we were living in S. Florida at the time, about a mile from our daughter, she picked us up and dropped us off at the port and that was it----no flights to worry about or accommodations the night before or transportation!  It was great!!!!  About 2 hours after we left our apartment in Coral Springs we were on the ship!

We ended up in one of the 4 cabins that have a super deep balcony---ours was 4054.  I'd read a lot of bad reviews about them (being in the sun and people above you could see you, but I'd say the actual covered area of our veranda was about what the regular verandas have.

 from the door to the veranda.

And, yes, people will look at you if you wear a towel on your head!  But most of the time we didn't even see people on their verandas.  A couple above us chatted with us a bit, other than that, we hardly saw a soul.

Personally, I didn't mind it at all and I loved having the lounges and a bit more view to one side. The regular verandas didn't have room for 1 lounger, let alone 2.

Our room was considered a VA cabin--4054.  Much higher category then the VH we were originally assigned.  The inside was about the size of the suite we had on the Maasdam.

 Our veranda as seen from a tender boat.  Note the rescue boat below us---it'll come in handy later in the cruise!

Angie dropped us off at the port about noon.  Boarding went rather quickly this time.  Just the line to get our room keys, then we went right onto the boat.  As usual, we dropped by our room for a few minutes then headed to the Lido buffet for our lunch.

 After the mandatory muster drill, we went to our veranda and watched sail away.  A little eerie seeing a machine gun next to you.  Especially this day and age with all the mass shootings.  Glad this was a good guy.  There was even a terrorist attack in Paris while we were on this cruise and 129 people were killed.  Why can't we all just cruise and get along----I digress!

 Heading out of the port.

 by our mid elevators.

 I had to go elsewhere to catch sunset since we were on the wrong side of the ship.  Here I found where the cabana people hang out.

 Finally I ended up at the back of the Lido deck since the observation deck had Plexiglas you had to look through.  It was probably our nicest sunset of the trip.

 Heading down along Miami.

 More of Miami.

 The first Mainstage show was the BBKing group.  They were very good, but we never made it to their club where they performed nightly.

 Leaving the Mainstage.  I didn't take a whole lot of pictures around the ship since this was the 3rd time we were on it.   But I have plenty more here--- Eurodam cruises .

Off to a great start!  Embarkation went as well as can be expected.   I love the long balcony on our cabin.  Can't wait to enjoy all the ports.