At Sea, En Route to Sydney: This is the last full day of the cruise. We’ve packed our large suitcases and started packing our carry-ons. The big ones will be put out in the hall tonight and the ship’s personnel will whisk them away in the wee hours.
We are scheduled to go ashore just before 8 a.m. and will reclaim the large suitcases then, go thru Australian customs, get on a shuttle bus and go to the airport. Once checked in and again parted from our large suitcases, we will go through security and be taken to our gate.
We’ll then have something like 2+ hours to kill before our flight is called. Our flight is scheduled to leave just after noon local time and will fly non-stop to San Francisco, where we will arrive at roughly the same time we boarded, after spending 15 hours in the air. It will be a looonngg day.
It has been a good cruise, not unlike spending 3+ weeks in a luxury hotel where nearly everything is done for you. The other DrC went ashore twice, I haven’t put foot on land since Seattle. Room service breakfast, pizza for lunch, cookies before bed, movies on demand, live entertainment, and good WiFi - a charmed existence. The water was rough the first week, not since.
