Back to San Diego

April 10

I actually got to have a visitor today! The bad news was it took us forever to get the crew cleared for shore leave. Poor Malcolm had to wait over an hour on me. I really was almost going to give up on the whole prospect of seeing him. But with luck I got off the ship with less than an hour to hang out. Grr. We went for a walk and had breakfast and caught up on old times. Then back to the ship. He got to see my tiny room that I live in and then I had to boot him off the ship. After embarkation I actually had a few hours off, so I called Malc up and he came to pick me up. We got to hang out more and walk the streets near his apartments and catch up more. It was a great day, especially to have fun with a friend I haven’t seen in a long ass time.

On the way back to the ship I almost had a heart attack because the Celebrity Cruise ship over powered ours and I couldn’t see my ship. The cab driver kept telling me that was the only ship there and I almost took off his head telling him to keep going and my ship should be on the other side.

Went to bed early because of too much partying.

April 11

Taking it easy.

Formal night tonight and we thought we were going to hang low tonight, but there was a crew birthday downstairs and we can’t be rude. So we ended up in the crew mess room with all the beer we could drink and a laser light show. Time really flew by tonight and thankfully I didn’t have to get up super early in the morning. Gotta love ship life.