The day has finally arrived! We caught a taxi at 11:15 from the Hilton to the Port of Miami. It was only a couple miles away. As you will read on my first photo caption, our taxi driver, Wilzaire, took the tunnel instead of bridge so was a longer ride. He was honest and said for me to pay him just $10 instead of the meter ($15). I gave him $20 for being so honest.
They started checking us in for boarding at a few minutes before noon. We were in right place at right time so was the second couple to board the ship. I made a sudden stop while boarding which Rebecca did not see and she fell down. Hurt her little finger on left hand but did not break the finger nail so all will be well. LOL
First thing I did after boarding was make a 6:30 reservation for Prime 7 (ship's steakhouse) for us and our old friends from Galveston, Joe & Allison Trum. We were not hungry so just sat in atrium area until 1:00 pm. Another of our benefits of being Titanium members (over 400 nights on Regent, we will go over 600 actually on these two cruises), is our suite was ready for us at 1:00. All others had to wait until 2:30 pm.
At 2:00 we went up to La Veranda for a little bite of lunch. Of course we ran into some other crew members we knew. We also had a meeting with our cruise director, John Barron, and his corporate boss from here in Miami, Pamela Petcash, in the Coffee Cafe. I made some entertainment suggestions to Pamela during our world cruise last year. She pitched them to Regent's President, Jason Montague, and some have been instituted. I had to go thank her!
Ok, it is about time for our mandatory life boat drill. We are almost finished unpacking now. After the drill it will be time for a cocktail prior to meeting Joe & Allison for dinner in Prime 7. Below is a link to the several photos that I took today. You may have to cut and paste the link to another browser. Click on the first photo and you should see my captions on right hand side of it. Then you can arrow through the remaining photos.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JK4YkXLAsCjZIAEn2
They started checking us in for boarding at a few minutes before noon. We were in right place at right time so was the second couple to board the ship. I made a sudden stop while boarding which Rebecca did not see and she fell down. Hurt her little finger on left hand but did not break the finger nail so all will be well. LOL
First thing I did after boarding was make a 6:30 reservation for Prime 7 (ship's steakhouse) for us and our old friends from Galveston, Joe & Allison Trum. We were not hungry so just sat in atrium area until 1:00 pm. Another of our benefits of being Titanium members (over 400 nights on Regent, we will go over 600 actually on these two cruises), is our suite was ready for us at 1:00. All others had to wait until 2:30 pm.
At 2:00 we went up to La Veranda for a little bite of lunch. Of course we ran into some other crew members we knew. We also had a meeting with our cruise director, John Barron, and his corporate boss from here in Miami, Pamela Petcash, in the Coffee Cafe. I made some entertainment suggestions to Pamela during our world cruise last year. She pitched them to Regent's President, Jason Montague, and some have been instituted. I had to go thank her!
Ok, it is about time for our mandatory life boat drill. We are almost finished unpacking now. After the drill it will be time for a cocktail prior to meeting Joe & Allison for dinner in Prime 7. Below is a link to the several photos that I took today. You may have to cut and paste the link to another browser. Click on the first photo and you should see my captions on right hand side of it. Then you can arrow through the remaining photos.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JK4YkXLAsCjZIAEn2
