Out the Ship window

Day 1 – Depart San Deigo
Today we left from San Diego on our 14 day Panama Canal Cruise. We are all very excited about being on a cruise ship again after having so much fun last year on the 7 day Alaska Holland America cruise.

Panama Canal Cruise Day 1 - depart San Diego

This time we have a balcony stateroom on the Celebrity Infinity. It is a slightly bigger ship, and having fresh air from the balcony is very nice already.

We put the RV’s in storage last night and this morning and then headed down from LA to San Diego to board at around 1 o’clock. Luckily our neighbours at the RV park (and friends for over 2 years now) offered to come down to San Diego and drive our truck back up to LA so we made it down comfortably and it didn’t cost a fortune! Thanks heaps Bill and Barb!

We found a great safe parking lot to leave it and then realized that even though we had dropped all the other bags off for the porters to take on board, our kids were still sitting in their bulky car seats – and we needed them for the hire car at the other end of the cruise.

We walked carrying the car seats for a couple of blocks, trying various combinations of carrying them (on our backs, one each, even on Le’s head for a while  ) we also had the hand luggage (not small) and the kids backpacks. About a kilometer from the dock a rickshaw bike guy, came and picked us up and took us the last little way. The kids were excited about riding on a “funny bike” so it turned out to be a good start to the adventures they are about to have on the cruise.

We settled into our room. Love the balcony! Kids love the balcony. We got to sit and watch the boat pull out right from our own balcony! LOVE IT! Oh, did I say that already.

We explored the ship a little, checked out the buffet  then went to the Trellis restaurant for our first dinner. Nice food. Kids are eating well too. Staff are all really friendly. We found where the bands are playing, kids danced for all on the dance floor. There was a small “taste of things to come” show on at the theatre. Our kids always love a good show, and they enjoyed this too. There is a mini broadway style show tomorrow night, so looking forward to taking them to see that. All in all, a good start to the next fortnight on board!