August 18 Sea Day

 August 18, Thursday - Sea Day

More work on the blog and now we are starting to plan for our trip home. We disembark on Sunday at 6:30AM for our transfer to Venice. Our flight is at 11:45 and the transfer takes about 2 hours. Thus the early start.

Bonnie has provided our seat assignments and schedule. Holland America was not very helpful with these onboard. Even though the flights were booked through them. It was not guest services onboard at fault. They were being told that since we had already sailed we would have to work directly with TAP Portugal Air. That was not working because HAL had not provided e-ticket numbers. Oh Well, Bonnie got it worked out.

We fly from Venice to Lisbon where we have a 3 hour layover. Then we fly directly to Chicago O’Hare from Lisbon. We will arrive at O’Hare at 8:15PM or 3:15PM Venice time. A long day ahead.

On sea days we visit Ocean Bar between 5:00 and 5:30 for Happy Hour. On port days we go to Mass instead. Today was our last Happy Hour. Mickey, Ryan, and Benji have been our loyal servers whenever we appear. We will miss their smiles and pleasantries.

This was a productive day.