We decide on trips based on itinerary
rather than cruise line. When we disembarked ROTTERDAM in San Diego after
a cruise in the equatorial Pacific last March, we had no idea we would be
boarding her today. (There is a related story to tell, but not here.)
We spent the morning packing up, having
a leisurely breakfast, checking out of the hotel and generally preparing for
the transfer to ROTTERDAM. (For any landlubbers in the blog audience, a
ship's name is usually spelled in capital letters.)
The transfer was somewhat of a Chinese
fire drill, but two hours later we were aboard the ship and in our
stateroom with all our luggage so results trumped process.
The ship was docked on the near side of
this pier directly underneath the path of the aerial tram to Sentosa we had
ridden two days earlier.
[The boats in this picture are
part of a swarm of high speed ferries.]
The sun set, we unpacked, had a nice dinner and
waited for the ship to depart at 10:00 PM.
Departure time came and went with no
movement. The tram shut down for the night and we continued to wait.
What we were waiting for turned out to be missing passengers. I do not know
whether they made it back on board, but at a few minutes after 11:00 the lines
were cast off, we backed away from the pier, turned
180 degrees in a rather confined area - a tug standing by in case our ship
needed a push or a pull - and headed down the channel past numerous ships at
anchor and a large refinery.
At this point it was midnight. Pam
& I went to bed.
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