Sarah blogging again today for no particular reason other than I said I would and got no complaints from Alan. Alan may make the odd comment here and there and they’ll be in red.
After a rather disturbed sleep where each of us blamed someone else for the snoring, we got up from our tiny Singapore room, showered, packed and watched the Oscars while waiting for checkout. I don’t snore! The weather when we awoke was very wet but by 11am when we left the hotel, the rain had cleared leaving a cloudy, hot and humid day in it’s wake.
We made our way down to the Singapore Cruise Centre and discovered that we weren’t the only ship departing. The Royal Caribbean ‘Legend of the Seas’. (our is the left one in the photo), plus the Orion II were all docked and departing today. We dropped our luggage and walked around the shops looking for lunch. We found a place, Secret Recipe, which we’d eaten at in Malaysia last year, and just so happened was right next door to a shop selling football shirts. 
We then returned to the check-in for our ship and we got a first look at not only our ship but also the difference in service. Our ship holds 450 passengers whereas the Legend of Seas holds 2,074 passengers. On this trip, there are actually only 400 passengers on our ship. And with 335 crew, you’re certainly made to feel very special. The others were being herded like cattle and we were greeted with silver service drinks and ice cold towels. We were escorted by one staff member who showed us around the ship.
We were then left to our own devices. Our room wasn’t yet ready and although we had only just had lunch, Dad and Alan helped themselves to pizza and chips by the pool. Here I saw the first step into what a bigger Alan we will have when he gets off the ship. I’m looking to getting straight into soccer season when I get home. I’ll be just fine.
It was fairly hot on deck so Alan and I went exploring, deciding to walk past our cabin to discover not only was it ready but the staff member who would be looking after our cabin, waiting with champagne and canapés.
She showed us the different features and confirmed that there would be a safety drill at 4.15pm and we were NOT to wear our life jackets to the drill.
At 4.15pm the captain came over the speaker to give his welcome speech and then told us about the drill. He reminded everyone that when the alarm went off, it was just a drill and for people NOT to abandon ship. We then moved to the marshalling area, where we found a number of people had not listened and did wear their life vests. This was the start, we discovered of people not listening. Those who went aboard in Singapore were to give their passports in on their return. That did not happen and even though there were several reminders in the afternoon, we ended up departing over an hour late while they chased up the stragglers.
We had dinner in the main restaurant. Was unbelievably good. We took photos on Alan’s phone but unfortunately, for some reason the silly XP laptops we have won’t recognise the phone as a phone and won’t let me get the photos off. I can tell you we had an amazing duck salad for entree mmm duck yum! and I had a wonderful beef tenderloin and Alan a fillet mignon but we can’t really make you jealous without the photos. Dessert was delicious too but now I’m just bragging.
After dinner we went on deck around the pool and listened to the band while waiting to leave. The Legend of the Seas had departed at 5pm and another had come in, the AIDAdiva. Huge ship, bigger than the Legend of the Seas but in fact only held 2,050 passengers. Lovely looking ship.
Finally at 11pm we set sail and after watching the lights of Singapore disappear, we returned to our cabin for some shuteye, ear plugs installed.
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