Woke up early, still dark outside except for the flashes of lightning. As I couldn’t hear any thunder thought the room nicely sound proofed. Well as time went on the thunder got close enough to hear lol. Once the day greyed up to visibility we could see the low clouds obscuring the tops of the buildings across the way and the rain was just coming down!
We stayed in our room killing time until about 10.45 when we grabbed a taxi and headed for Circular Quay and the big ship awaiting us. Took around 15 minutes and rained all the way. Left our suitcases at the baggage drop all nicely labelled and even though our official check-in time was 13.00 we went though without a hitch. Short wait for the security scanning as usual, but shortly we found ourselves in Two70⁰ having lunch. The rain had stopped by the time we finished so we went up to the 15th deck and had a walk around the running track and enjoyed the views of Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and the old buildings in The Rocks precinct.
Our room was available at 13.00 so we found it and sat on the balcony looking at the old buildings again with some internet surfing to discover their history.
Mandatory safety drill was at 17.00 so we wandered down to our muster point at 16.50 so we would be ready and also get a seat. That done and quick visit back to our room to see if our luggage had appeared yet (no it hadn’t), we ascended from deck 13 to 14 and dinner in the Windjammer. Back to our room and no luggage, so down to security (deck 2) but they didn’t have it, so being delivered they said. We then watched the ship move away from the wharf and then turn, so discovered we are near the end of the ship, not the front as we had thought, LOL.
Down to Two70⁰ again, but this time it had been transformed into a theatre complete with moving floors, holes in ceiling for trapezes and vanishing holes for performers. It started as an image show on 7 big screens manipulated by robotic arms, and were alight for lots of the singing/dancing that ensued. They must have changed costumes about 10 times!!! We also began to notice that the ship had left the harbour as a slight rocking had started.
Back at the stateroom, still no luggage, so went down to Guest Services where there were lots of bags, including ours that had lost our labels with the room numbers on them.
Mum’s asleep and I’m not going to be far behind her, might have to hang something on the hangers in the wardrobe though, they are banging together, LOL.
