Day 4 - Land and back again

This post is coming in a bit late, because I finally moved onto the ship (yay!) But the bummer was that I was relentlessly seasick and completely incapable of looking at a screen. Hopefully that was the last of it and we ease in to the rest of the cruise. We're actually heading back into port as we speak so it's calm for now. You may be confused as to why we're going into port when I left yesterday, so I will do my best to explain the timeline and give an idea of why everything is a logistic nightmare. But first here's the sunset so you can see that it isn't all bad:

Plan 1: Depart on the 16th. I plan to fly in the 13th-16th.

Plan 2: Depart on the 14th. I now fly in on the 10th (booking flights was a whole other debacle) and have a hotel the 10th-14th.

Plan 3: Depart on the 15th. It's now too late to change hotels, I plan on moving onto the ship while it's in port on the 14th or else I'm homeless.

Plan 4: The port is full because of a container ship, so I will take a small boat transfer onto the ship while it's out to sea on the 14th, we'll come back on the 15th and grab anybody else left on shore and then head out.

Plan 5 (Current status): We're coming into port, everyone is moving on board, and then we're not going anywhere until probably the 19th.

That all may be too much detail, but I want you to have insight into some of the chaos.

So now I'm on board, coming into port, and then we'll all just hang out here for a few more days. No big deal, it just means a few more days of acclimating and also still eating land food.

I wish I had any pictures of the small boat transfer because it's interesting. While in port, we climbed into a little zodiac and then zoomed out to the open seas to meet the ship. Then there's some some skilled boat driving that I didn't fail to appreciate, a bunch of ropes and cables get attached to the boat, and then a crane lifts the boat up from the water onto the ship deck. I've done this before leaving the ship, and I'll tell you that going down to the water is way less spooky than going up. But this is pretty standard practice and everything went smoothly. Everyone was very calm so I pretended I was calm too. I don't have any photos of the goofy bright orange helmet I had to wear, so you as the reader will have to use your imagination. Here is the boat we used while it's back on the deck:

And that's all there is to it. I got on board, and the one win I had today is that for the first time ever, I got a bottom bunk!!! No more ladder into bed, and no more feeling like I'm going to be launched out of bed in the middle of the night during rough seas. Here's home sweet home for the next month:

And finally, honorable mention for another chicken with her chicks: