NCL Sun Live - Nov 6, 2005

My Black label ordered through NCL was finally delivered Monday - guess something about Tejas laws... 

Ship is is pretty good shape - food is pretty darn good.

We even stopped off Cozumel today to deliver some supplies - if I had known that would have gladly donated the missed port refund to bring some more supplies.

Tomorrow is Belize, then Roatan, then ???

More later...

Before I forget - The name of the tapas restaurant is Las Rambas...

Balcony picture




No need for a bungy cord - had a hook if you wanted to air condition the outdoors.


Also had an emergency cooling apparatus



For the extremely curious, the light on my balcony did work every night I tried it.



Chocolate buffet - you can get there early and wait or get there late and wait.


The only selections at lunch and dinner that I saw. The tea was typical cruise ship nasty (which meant it was fine to me), but no lemonade to cut with. They did have sliced lemons, however.



And hand sanitizer, everywhere!


Son of Sun putt putt paint barge...


A 32 pack of water might have been over the top, but why not go for the gold?


I thought these were cute:






Some difference in food between Four Seasons and Seven Seas, sometimes the same. For example, tonight both will have Oysters Rockefeller for an appetizer, and Four Seasons will offer Chateaubriand where Seven Seas will offer Filet Mignon. I suspect the same piece of meat prepared differently depending on the restaurant.


Oh yeah, there was a DVD player (with remote) in the room. They try to sell/rent you DVDs, but mine from home played just fine.

Only did these low-res will see if they work - should be able to download and/or just print directly and i think they will be readable...

Dailys

http://pictures.aol.com/ap/viewShare...bBXiXp6w%3d%3d

well, should be interesting - pics got uploaded in a random order... oh well...

did i have fun ??? hmmm. I'm one of those that having fun is a state of mind and is up to me, whatever happens, but having said that, the zydeco group is on the first NCL Sun sailing out of New Orleans next November and I already signed up. You betcha!

If you go to the liquor store on board and purchase liquor after 6pm, you just carry out with you. Store is open until 9pm the last night - not sure if they run out of stuff or not.

Even though the last sunset on this cruise has happened, the week still isn't over - YET! Still hours to go before I sleep... Oh, and pack.

Finally got one batch of pictures (From Belize) posted:

Barrier Reef Snorkeling and Beach (Bannister Caye) from NCL Sun

Taken while on Nov 6, 2005 sailing of the Sun. The early morning tour sold out and they added a second one that left at noonish. Price was $69 and lasted about 3 1/2 hours.

There was a good assortment of live coral at the snorkel location, but not a lot of fish. They said we would snorkel for 45 minutes, but it was more like 30. Snorkel vests were required, but you didn't have to inflate. You did not have to play follow the leader, but were sort of herded into a somewhat confined area by the tour company. They used kayaks to keep an eye on the snorkelers and would politely tell me (several times) that I was out of bounds. Oh well.

I will preface with I'm not a beach person, but Bannister Caye did not appeal much to me - perhaps to others it would. The included rum punch on the catamaran was good enough for me - make sure they float some additional rum on top!