Beantown

I met Debbie at the Atlanta airport and after an initial gate change we had an uneventful flight to Boston.  I had ordered some wine at a shop I found online since we couldn’t carry it on the plane.   I had twenty text messages from Kay asking “Are you here yet”?   I finally answered yes and we got the luggage then headed to the taxi stand which of course was a block away!  Kay and Judy were already on the ship.  We did get a good driver and he got us to the wine shop and waited while I ran in and picked up the order.  Then we were at the port and on the ship in ten minutes at most.  Most people were on already at 2:15 or so.  We went directly to the cabin and met Kay and Judy who are our next door neighbors this cruise.  The cabins are tight but then after the suite on the Oasis, everything would seem small!  The weather was very chilly and there were FROST warnings out for the Boston area for tonight.  The Crystal Symphony was docked behind us.  We backed out of our dock promptly at 5 PM and wow did it get cold…the wind was blowing and I was surprised there were no snowflakes in the wind!  We have early seating dinner so we went inside to keep from freezing to death as well as get ready for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

The cabin TV has given us many facts about Boston which is nice because there is nothing else on the stupid TV but you can rent a movie for $11.99!  Kay had texted me the info she was ready about Boston before I was able to read it for myself.  She said if three women room together in Boston it is considered to be a brothel…ok then.  Then we read the reason it is called “Beantown” is that everyone in Boston liked baked beans hence Boston Baked Beans.    Everyone knew this apparently but me.  There were more facts related to the Boston Tea Party but you can study history on your own. 

 

We found our table for dinner and we are crammed at a table for four in the back of the dining room.  We can’t move back there and neither can the waiters.  The food we had that night was not hot when we got it but we decided to let it slide as first night organization issues that sometimes happen the first night of the cruise.  They had a show that night but all of us were so tired we passed and went to bed early.  As we headed to the North Atlantic it got very “Swoopy”.  We would have slept good but the bed was very hard and that is how our first day and night ended.