So we had an unscheduled time sitting at the port in Doha last night and now we had to inexplicably get off the ship to show our passports to immigration and then get right back on.
The Norwegian Dawn is so large that it was difficult to take pictures of.
There was a big aquarium in the port building that we had fun gawking at.
Quickly! Back to the ship!
It was funny because the announcements kept saying that we couldn't leave the port until every single passenger got off the ship and did the passport check. Why they didn't do this before we got on the ship is a mystery. It definitely had a "we're making this up as we go along" feel to it. As time dragged on the announcements repeated in numerous languages until it was clear they were down to like two Italian guys taking long naps and the announcements I imagine were cursing at them in Italian.
Some of the gingerbread houses in the common areas are pretty disturbing.
We did a safety presentation and learned a bit about the ship. If I recall correctly we currently had 1900 guests and a lifeboat capacity of 3000. They were talking about baby life vests being needed but then it was unclear where the heck they were. Finally I called one of the help desks and they said if one was needed that someone would bring us one. How comforting.
When we finally started pushing away from the beautiful Doha skyline some little tug boats guys followed us and guided us out of the harbor.
Ern had a nice new blackout tent thing that fits over his crib and keeps it dark in there for snoozing.
The water situation was a bit annoying. We had an unlimited booze package but this didn't include bottled water. The water out of the faucet didn't taste very good, but the filtered water in the cafeteria had big signs posted about not filling up personal water bottles. So I bought a case of water to be delivered to our room to take care of my people. There was much rejoicing.
Walking around seeing the different cocktails offered at the various bars on board is a nice way to pass the time and explore the ship.
We had some night cap mudslides to celebrate the seaworthiness of our fine vessel.
Avast! There was a little onboard newspaper where we could read about the fun times awaiting us the following day.
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