After church on Sunday Marc traveled along with us to Gloucester to meet up with my mom and cousins for our Cruise to Canada. We got on the bus that night around 11 PM. We were in New Jersey early that morning (around 6 am I think) so the bus stopped at a Cracker Barrel for breakfast (who knew Cracker Barrel was even open that early). Cracker Barrel is probably my least fav. restaurant but I was willing to try it again (especially since I knew lunch on the ship would not take place until around 1:30). Once again I was not impressed. Add in the fact that the servers were probably not prepared for a bus load of folks that early (they were literally scrambling to try and get food on the table for us). Our poor waiter kept forgetting to bring items (including silverware and creamer for coffee).
We were back on the bus in a few and then off to New York! We arrived in New York around 9:00 am. As we crossed the bridge you could see the Hudson River in front of us and when we got off of the interstate we could see the port on the side. It took the bus several moments to figure out which area we should stop at so that the porters could give us instructions for getting off the bus and going through security. That part actually went fairly fast, and in no time we were at the desk making arrangements for our Sign and Sail Cards. After a picture taking session with the cruise photographers (who seem to be in more places then the Disney photographers) we started heading on to the ship.
Can I stop right here and say that the Lobby area seemed very small in person after seeing so many pics of it on the cruise boards. We quickly made our way to the Lido deck for lunch (so actually we got to sit down for a meal by 11:00 AM)!
