{"id":176,"date":"2007-02-06T22:38:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-02-06T22:38:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:38:53","slug":"port-everglades-fl-ships-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Port Everglades, Fl: Ships Ahoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138645\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/180\/375138645_fff04004ef.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ho.Lee.Crap. I am tired. I made it to the ship with minutes to spare only to find that we weren&#8217;t going to sail until tomorrow. My first view of the MV explorer took my breath away, my chest got tight with joy and fear. She&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138095\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">huge<\/a> (24,000 Tons), she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/279520177\/\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful<\/a> (just completed in 2002) and she&#8217;s fast (top speed 32 knots). I could barely get all of her in the picture I tried to take from the security gate.<\/div>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m going to live out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138047\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">4 bags<\/a> for almost four months (click on pic to see packing list). I&#8217;m amazed at how well I packed when you consider that 1\/8 of this stuff is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/369565466\/\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>. I checked in and my bags were delivered to my cabin. Not having cruised before I had no idea what to expect. Though\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m one of the\u00c2\u00a0executive team (there are 6 of us)\u00c2\u00a0on this\u00c2\u00a0voyage, I had prepared myself for an inside, deck 2 cabin, behind the engine and the anchor, with no porthole, no light and industrial paint. Fortunately, my cabin is amorgeous (amazing + gorgeous). I&#8217;m deck 5 starboard with a view of the ocean and the lifeboats (and believe me, I&#8217;m okay with that!).<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138790\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">bathroom<\/a>, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138765\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">desk<\/a> (and again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138999\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">after I unpacked<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138726\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">my tv<\/a>,(what&#8217;s in that glass?)\u00c2\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/375138698\/in\/set-72157594509850906\/\" target=\"_blank\">my beds<\/a> before I\u00c2\u00a0asked my cabin steward to\u00c2\u00a0put them together (the reflective tape on the life vests is what you see glowing). As luxurious as all of this sounds, I have to earn my keep&#8230;I&#8217;m headed to an 8:00pm executive team\u00c2\u00a0meeting. I can&#8217;t wait to figure out what I&#8217;ve gotten myself into and learn my way around this beast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"reflect\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/375138157_3ef6c52151.jpg?v=0\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ho.Lee.Crap. I am tired. I made it to the ship with minutes to spare only to find that we weren&#8217;t going to sail until tomorrow. My first view of the MV explorer took my breath away, my chest got tight with joy and fear. She&#8217;s huge (24,000 Tons), she&#8217;s beautiful (just completed in 2002) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Port Everglades, Fl: Ships Ahoy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-semestersea","category-travel","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}