Cruise: Day 1 - Orientation
Nov. 18th, 2007 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I learned that taking 71 to Houston is really no quicker than taking 290 like we thought it would be. It was still a fine route for us.
We got a room just down the hall from chikuru and raaga123, which was nice. The other two couples were on a much higher deck. Speaking of which, here is some ship vocabulary.
Stuff I knew:
* fore - front of ship
* aft - back of ship
* port - left side of ship. You can remember this because both port and left have four letters. Also, wine has four letters, and port is a type of wine. Port is the good side (four letters) and the side most of us were on.
* starboard - right side of ship. Anything without four letters goes here.
Stuff I didn't know or only sort of knew:
* exit - stairwell. Seriously, if you want to find a stairwell or elevator, you need to look for an exit sign. If you are looking for an exit, you will have to use some other strategy. And there really is no good exit from a ship at sea.
* deck - floor. We were on deck 2. Our other friends were on deck 9. The other couple was on deck 7. Our restaurant was on deck 3; most other things were on deck 9.
* guest - passenger/customer/sucker.
* watch your step - wrong way. Well, at least on our deck, if you came out of the aftmost stairwell and were wondering which way to go, the answer was always to never cross the part of the hall that said "watch your step."
* cabin - like a hotel room, only a bit smaller and better designed.
* cruise ship - floating mansion/hotel
Our TBA dinner assignments turned out to be at all different tables, different times, and different dining rooms. Raaga123 (and Indigo Rose?) got it so that all eight of us could eat together every single day. Yes, we had indicated that we were all to be together when we signed up.
We also arranged for dinner one night in the fancy dining room.
The food was good and the stairs were multiple. Calorie-wise, I think the food won.
I didn't get the kind of motion-sickness where I felt nauseated, but I did feel a little dizzy a few times. Mostly it was just fun being on a moving surface, sort of like a very mild funhouse. If you've ever jumped up and down on an elevator, it sort of felt like that when running up stairs, too, a few times.
We got a room just down the hall from chikuru and raaga123, which was nice. The other two couples were on a much higher deck. Speaking of which, here is some ship vocabulary.
Stuff I knew:
* fore - front of ship
* aft - back of ship
* port - left side of ship. You can remember this because both port and left have four letters. Also, wine has four letters, and port is a type of wine. Port is the good side (four letters) and the side most of us were on.
* starboard - right side of ship. Anything without four letters goes here.
Stuff I didn't know or only sort of knew:
* exit - stairwell. Seriously, if you want to find a stairwell or elevator, you need to look for an exit sign. If you are looking for an exit, you will have to use some other strategy. And there really is no good exit from a ship at sea.
* deck - floor. We were on deck 2. Our other friends were on deck 9. The other couple was on deck 7. Our restaurant was on deck 3; most other things were on deck 9.
* guest - passenger/customer/sucker.
* watch your step - wrong way. Well, at least on our deck, if you came out of the aftmost stairwell and were wondering which way to go, the answer was always to never cross the part of the hall that said "watch your step."
* cabin - like a hotel room, only a bit smaller and better designed.
* cruise ship - floating mansion/hotel
Our TBA dinner assignments turned out to be at all different tables, different times, and different dining rooms. Raaga123 (and Indigo Rose?) got it so that all eight of us could eat together every single day. Yes, we had indicated that we were all to be together when we signed up.
We also arranged for dinner one night in the fancy dining room.
The food was good and the stairs were multiple. Calorie-wise, I think the food won.
I didn't get the kind of motion-sickness where I felt nauseated, but I did feel a little dizzy a few times. Mostly it was just fun being on a moving surface, sort of like a very mild funhouse. If you've ever jumped up and down on an elevator, it sort of felt like that when running up stairs, too, a few times.