We had a great time at the Gala last night and had a good sleep.  I of course was up really early and tried the internet which was so slow I gave up.  We were picked up by Limo at 11:45 just in time to have lunch in the main dining room. We arrived at the pier and they asked me if I wanted a wheelchair but I refused I need to walk right.  Only problem is it was about a 10 block walk I was 1/3 of the way and they came with a wheelchair so I got in.   We had a great lunch Bill had the salmon I had the pasta and my 2 glasses  of  champagne and then we went to our cabin.  Well if you had seen our cabin we could not even walk in.  Just picture three suitcases on the bed, 5 on the floor and now they are bringing the 4 carryons.  Luggage Luggage everywhere.  So since I was stuck in there and my feet were so swollen I decided to unpack to find my sneakers now I knew they were in one of two suitcases but alas they were still on the floor and no where to put the three on the bed so they had to be done first. 

Our stewardess, Indre  God bless her  came in and brought us a lot more hangers.  So we went to work.  We had three suitcases done in no time.  Of course now there is so much stuff on the bed that we can’t even sit.  We do 2 more suitcases and there are my sneakers so I am happy. Indre comes back and puts the three empty suitcases under the bed for us and tells us she will take the rest to storage. Just let her know when we are ready.  We can’t put them outside our door because my scooter is there ready and waiting.  We get the carryons done so that they can go into the bigger suitcases for storage and we finish the rest of the suitcases.  

There is still a lot of stuff on the bed but Bill went for his cigar and organized where the stuff that was not being hung up would go.  Bill returned and was pleased he didn’t have to do anymore.  

We go out by the pool as the USC marching band is going to play for us.  They were awesome I think Bill enjoyed the cheer leaders a little too much!  After this they had a champagne sailaway.  We go back to our cabin and by now I am hurting and want to bring the laptop to the computer lab to be configured so I hop on my scooter and we go.  INTERNET IS DOWN.  Oh well I was able to get my log-on anyway.  We go back to the cabin so I can do a quick change and down to the Cove we go to have a pre-dinner cocktail.  We get a great seat and I have a martini Bill has his usual club soda and cranberry juice.  The band is playing, people are dancing .The cove is filled with balloons.  Rick gets on stage and then introduces the captain.  Now they are passing out champagne and the crew is arriving with a glass of champagne in their hands and we all stand up and they do a countdown just like New Year’s Eve.  All the balloons fall and all this confetti starts falling down.  It was quite exciting.  When this ends it is time for us to go for dinner.  We are both so exhausted.  We have a head waiter that we had uyears ago when Judy and Eddie came with us Augusto from Rome.  He remembered us and stayed and talked to us for a long time.  We didn’t even have tea or coffee at the end of the meal and we came right back to our cabin.  We were in bed by 10:30 that is a first for me!  All in all it was a great day, exhausting but great!  Tomorrow should be even better no unpacking to do!

Today we slept in and I signed up for memoir writing course got two books from the library and got my needlepoint kit.  Tonight is the first formal night with the Captain's welcome aboard cocktail party then the french dinner followed by the production show Curtain Call  will report on that tomorrow.  Hope you are all well we are doing great!