Day 2 - January 14, 2011 San Francisco

Today the ship is still in San Francisco with a lot of passengers boarding today.  We actually slept in until 7:30am and then spent some time finishing the rearrangement of the closet and drawers.  Everything is now in its place.  We asked Rajib for an additional set of drawers since there was plenty of room for them in the closet and that gave us plenty of room for everything we brought.  The desk area is much bigger than in the regular suites so it doesn’t look crowded at all.

Up to breakfast at La Veranda this morning and Fred started off his cruise with his typical full breakfast, smoked salmon, eggs, bacon, fruit, coffee.  Jan, trying to start off the right way, had cereal and strawberries.  

Met up with Tom and Martha, our friends from Boston, and had lunch.   We saw Abgail in the Veranda.  We had sailed with her in 2006 on the Mariner while on the Grand Asia Pacific trip.  She took very special care of Jan’s Mom when she joined us in Sydney.

Ship drill was at 3:15pm.  This is the first time that we have been involved in a safety drill where we didn’t have to put on our life jackets…in fact they didn’t want us to even bring them with us to the muster stations.  We did have to go out on deck.  The sun came out but it is still cool.

Sail away started just a bit late as we had a couple of late arriving passengers they waited for.   The sun was shining and it was a nice sail out of San Francisco under the Golden Gate Bridge.  We had to put jackets on to enjoy sail away on the top deck as the wind caused by the ship moving was cold!   Just out of the Golden Gate we went back into heavy clouds and intermittent fog.  The Captain says it will stay that way all night and probably the next day as well.  Sea is pretty smooth with only 5-8 foot swells.

We joined Tom and Martha for dinner in the Compass Rose.  Service was very good.  Everyone’s food was good except Jan’s.  She ordered from the Canyon Ranch Spa Menu…the chicken was uneatable  it was so tough.  However, the chocolate desert was great!  Evening entertainment was a movie so we went back to the cabin for more rest.