08 December 2017 -- Ft. Lauderdale, FL We are off the ship and in the airport waiting to see if we can get to Atlanta with its snow. May have to extend our stay here in Florida awhile longer. We can't say enough of our last 49 days and all our adventures. We'll slowly come back to reality and look back on it all and smile! Thanks for sharing our experience through this blog and hope it was a good way to stay in touch.
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07 December 2017 -- Half Moon Cay, Bahamas What a beautiful day and a beautiful location! We used the ship’s tenders and other tenders from Half Moon Cay (owned by Holland America) to get to the island and back. It was a little rough but we survived. Another Holland America ship, the Zuiderdam, was also there as their cruise to the Panama Canal was just starting. We had a very relaxing time on shore, a good lunch provided by the ship’s culinary team, and lots of sun. It was a nice respite to end a wonderful vacation. Robbi got her swim in the ocean and John got a long walk on the beach. So now we have a dinner and breakfast left on the ship and we dock in Ft. Lauderdale at 7:00am and we are scheduled off at 9:30am. Then a flight back to Atlanta and reality!!! What an experience! We cannot express in words what it was like and what a great time we had seeing what we saw at all our ports of call. Oh, and by the...
Crossing the Atlantic – 30 November thru 06 December 2017 After leaving Funchal we headed west for our last stop in the Bahamas before our exit in Ft. Lauderdale. We were delayed leaving Funchal due to a mechanical repair to our backup diesel generator and as it turned out, it was good as another medical emergency arose that could have caused us to turn around had we left on time. The Culinary staff treated us to a Mediterranean Food Feast on the night leaving Funchal to celebrate our last main port. Delicious!! Our first day at sea was rainy (30 Nov.) but cleared up in the afternoon. We had a course changes and turned to a southwesterly direction to avoid a deep low pressure disturbance in our original path. Even with this correction we experienced very rough seas throughout the night and day of 01 December, with off-and-on squalls and high gusty winds. By evening though the seas calmed and we had a nice night. Saturday 02 December w...