A really big boat!

Day 3: We wake and walk to breakfast at the same breakfast food truck of yesterday. Here we order ham and cheese croissants, mine with scrambled eggs. We now meet Debbie and Jeff from Minnesota and have a fun chat. We order an Uber and it arrives at 12:30. It’s less than 5 miles to the ship but it takes almost an hour. Sure enough, as we were warned last night, there is a marathon in the area today and traffic is snarled. We had heard about it from Stefan from Quebec who also dined with us last night.

Our Uber driver, Tomas, is pleasant and gets us to the ship around 1:30 PM. We have an easy time boarding and we are on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas in no time. Now to get to know one of the largest cruise ships in the world. Passenger capacity is about 6400. We’ll definitely be getting our steps in! We have a Stateroom with a balcony overlooking “Central Park” in the interior of the ship!

The ship is enormous! Somewhere along the lines of 12 swimming pools, water slides, 2 surfing pools, countless restaurants and bars, theaters galore including the 3 story theater in the front. Shops and stores.

I get some photos on deck of parts of the ship and the harbor as we depart Fort Lauderdale. I must point out that this is my first trip without a camera. I am only using my new iPhone 17. It will be interesting to see the caliber of images I capture.

We choose to have dinner in the main restaurant. We wait in line and are soon escorted up two levels to our table. Dinner consists of crab cakes, escargot, prime rib, and cheesecake for dessert. Decadence! We book a comedy club for later and continue to tour the ship. There are countless activities to do on the ship, but reservations are needed for most of them, even the free ones.

Tomorrow will be the first Port Day. We will add the Bahamas to our growing list of places visited. Got to get up early so I’ll bid you good night! Enjoy some photos of the ship with the surfing pools, a miniature golf area, an outdoor BBQ/Smoked Meat Restaurant, antique car, swimming pools and even the, “Bionic Bar” where robots will mix you a drink!