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Day Eight - Tampa

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Sunday, April 7, 2019 I wake up well before my alarm and can do my yoga on the balcony as we slip back into Tampa.  We get our act together early enough to finally have breakfast in the dining room.  How civilized!  Coffee is poured, breakfast orders are taken and delivered.  Of course there aren’t all the choices available at the buffet;  but the vegetable fritatta is very nice.  Diana still can’t get her GF bagel, of course;  but she gets GF toast, cream cheese and smoked salmon for her breakfast sandwich! After breakfast we return to the cabin and gather the last of our belongings.  The staff needs to prepare for the incoming cruisers, so we vacate and go back to the Guest Services desk.  The young lady says she’ll check the safe and is gone quite a while.  Apparently it’s a huge, walk-in safe!  She returns with three envelopes of bracelets;  but none are mine.  Glad it wasn’t my favorite, hand-made one! They have been calling groups of
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Day Seven - Sea Day

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Saturday, April 6, 2019 There has been a constant kerfuffle with the time.  One day we set the clocks back an hour, another day they go back yet another hour.  Another day they go forward.  It’s very strange. Usually a ship tells you to just stay with ship time and not ask anyone ashore what time it is!  That’s much easier!  I just left my phone on Tampa time, which is also body time, after three weeks of adjusting to Daylight Saving Time. All that is to say that we aren’t sure what time it is when we head to breakfast.  It’s also complicated by the fact that we had used wifi on shore and now my phone is confused.  We are supposed to see ship time on the Rotterdam’s intranet website, the Navigator.  And that’s fine but you have to come off the site and go back on, for it to change the time.  Long and short of it is that we get to the dining room for our first breakfast there after they have stopped serving!  Oh well, back up to the Lido deck! After breakfast
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Day Six - Costa Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

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Friday, April 5, 2019 I’m in my usual routine with yoga on the balcony but today we’re pulling into Costa Maya along with the other 15,000 cruisers, and as we approach our berth I play a game of Beat the Clock, since I’m in my jammies!  Turns out we’re the furthest out, so I needn’t have worried! We have both been here before, so we haven’t booked an excursion.  We just get down to breakfast while there are a few stations still open;  but they have that lovely oatmeal with fruit in the little dessert-looking cups and fruit and today I experiment with the omelet station.  There is salmon as one of the choices and lots of veggies, and my version of café con leche completes the meal. Woohoo!  I caught the light!! Look at the Peter Max decor on this hull!! From our balcony we could see a swarm of people storming Costa Maya.  It looked like the D-Day invasion!!  There are two huge ships already in port, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Sea
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