Day Five ~ San Juan

I woke up before Doug, again!  Which is totally backward of what happens at home.  I'm just not feeling so great on this trip and am not sleeping well.  I am enjoying the peaceful mornings on the balcony having coffee and writing in the journal or just listening to the world go by.  Soon Doug will be awake and we'll order breakfast and plan our day.

We're in San Juan today, but not until 2.  It's not our favorite port.  Our plan is to go to Starbucks and CVS.  Kind of like home ;)

After breakfast we wandered around the ship for a little bit.  We went to the photo gallery to collect our pictures and the promenade to browse the shops and get coffee.  They also have Starbucks on the ship.  Not quite the same as land, but not bad.  We talked to people all along the promenade and then decided to head to the pool.

We sat in front of the sky bar this time since there was a little bit of shade.  Still the reserved seating.  Nice view from up there.  We were hoping to have lunch at Johnny Rockets this day, but they were PACKED!!  We never did make it there this trip.  So we got lunch in the Windjammer and brought it back to the room to eat on the balcony.

A couple days previously, Doug met Mike and Charlene (Not Charlotte!) at pre-dinner drinks (while he was working the room haha).  He introduced them to me while we were hanging out by the sky bar.

Here is Mike and Charlene with our cruise director, Leigh.

We arrived in San Juan a little early.  We sat on the balcony and watched while we pulled into port.

The weather was gorgeous.  Sunny and 90 and not as humid as Labadee.  Doug thought it was more uncomfortable than I did...the heat really bothers him.

So first stop....Starbucks.  But we didn't know where it was.  We asked several people and finally found it.  It was BUSY.  Doug found a little seat in the back.  It was cool in there, and free wifi, and so many people from the ship were there checking in at home.  Loved it!

We also went to CVS for some rum and a couple other things.  And then back to the ship to enjoy a quiet afternoon relaxing.

This ship is so big and makes me feel tiny!

We spent the rest of the time before dinner in the room resting.  I did pick up snacks at the Cafe and drinks at the Solarium Bar.  Thanks Sue for suggesting them.....that bartender makes a great drink!

There weren't any pictures before dinner this night since we had a late call on San Juan (leaving at 9) and the photographers are busy off ship.  So we went straight upstairs for appetizers and drinks.  We were the only people up there this night since so many people were on shore.  Steve and Michaela had an excursion and were meeting up with us for dinner.  We were able to talk with Dillon quite a bit, and spammed Facebook with pictures since we were able to do that in a US port without paying.

We headed to dinner at 7:30.  There were very few people in the MDR this night since we were in port.  Steve and Michaela weren't there yet, so we chatted with Anil, Ketut and John and waited for them.  We did place orders and they came in not long after, so we were able to enjoy dinner together and hear about their excursion.  

Dinner tonight was mushroom soup for both Doug and me.  I had chicken cordon blue with rice and veggies.  Doug had grilled chicken with mashed potatoes and broccoli.  Dessert was yummy!  Michaela and I shared cherries jubilee and jaffa cake.  Jaffa cake is chocolate on the bottom and orange soaked cake on the top.  It was yum!  We also ordered Rum Baba (rum soaked pound cake) for the table.  We all tasted that.  And we had coffee (Steve and I did anyway) and dinner shooters.  Anil made us a special drink.  It had creme de cocoa, kaluha, baileys and half and half.  It was SO GOOD!  Again, he brought us our drinks, and a shaker with another round, and he started pouring what was left in the shaker in my coffee.  Oh he is good!

Tonight was the Love and Marriage Show in the theater on Deck 3.  It was hilarious!  The two older couples just made the show.  We laughed and laughed and laughed.  

The White Party was in the Solarium after this...so Doug and I headed there.  I wasn't feeling so great though, so we headed to the room to sit on the balcony and unwind and head to bed.  Tomorrow is St. Martin!  We love St. Martin and had a few plans we were looking forward to!