Reunions!

Jan 2: Grand Cayman
I’m glad I’m getting to the point now where I know at least someone on every HAL ship, it makes days like today fun! We were in port with the Amsterdam today (in addition to three other, non-HAL ships) and Emily (librarian from last contract here/my roommate) is there now. We’ve been messaging over the past few days to make plans and today was the day. I had to work until noon, but she got on the ship as a visitor and came up to Club HAL to see me for my last hour, I kept an eye on the kids as they watched a movie and we started our catching up. Phil came to take over at 12 and said he didn’t need help with the four kids for lunch, so Emily and I set off to my room to change and head ashore. We’d planned on going to the beach, but that was before we realized how early the Nieuw A was leaving, so we altered our plans and decided to grab lunch and a drink instead. I hadn’t really forgotten how much I missed having such a good friend around, but it really hit me when we never had more than a second’s pause in conversation the whole two hours as we ate. It was really good to be able to catch up with Emily, it was weird for me when I came back and she (as well as a lot of other people) had left.

Anyway, my all aboard time was alltoosoon, so we parted ways and I caught the tender before the last crew tender (good timing!) I spent quite a lot of time wasting my internet card because the internet was extremely slow and I really wanted to try to upload a few of these blogs.