charlottetown

May 14, 2013: Charlottetown
It was a cold day. I wasn’t ready to get up in the morning, so slept in and missed breakfast, got ready really slowly and then went to lunch, after which I got off the ship. It was cold and looked like rain so I walked around towards town for a few minutes, looked in two shops near the port, then quickly determined that it was too cold to do anything else, so I went back to the terminal and got online for an hour. I was still cold from that few minute walk when I got back on the ship, so crawled under the covers and attempted to warm up before attending the sailaway party in the Crow’s Nest. These things are difficult to attend. There’s so many people there, all already sitting in groups and chatting. It shouldn’t be called ‘mingling,’ it should be ‘intruding on the conversations of passengers.’ Thank goodness we didn’t really have to do much of that; Carly, Donna (the party planner), Aiden (the techspert) and I ended up talking about tendering since I’m supposed to have immigration in Bar Harbor and Carly has to work tendering so we need to figure out how that’s going to work for port day in Club HAL. While we were talking, Kelsey the cruise director came over and suggested we all sit and chat. So, she bought us all drinks and we talked until some of them had to go do work. Carly and I went to dinner and stayed there until I had to go to work. We’ve changed up the schedule a bit since there’s really no reason for both of us to be there when only one or two of the kids show up at night, so whoever works port day gets the night off.