Today starts segment 2 of Crystal Serenity's 2019 World Cruise. Since February 13, Serenity has sailed 6841 nautical miles equal to 7867 land miles. The 2nd segment is shorter and only lasts 15 days, about a week less than segment 1. It only has 6 sea days! Also only 2 formal nights. New passengers come on today. Serenity will hold a muster drill for them before 6pm sailing. According to Reflections In-transit guests are welcome to attend but it is not mandatory. I expect we'll skip it then and see what happens this time!
We plan to spend only about a half day out in Auckland today. We plan to walk down the waterfront to the Maritime Museum in time for their 10:30 am guided tour. After that we only plan to walk back a block or 2 past the ship to visit another fabric store. Lunch is TBD. We have reservations to book in the afternoon. We learned at the library yesterday morning from a new librarian that we can keep books checked out over transition days and only have to check in as needed or 24 hours before the end of our cruise and not each cruise segment as I was told when I checked out my first book. Good news.
So we left around 9:45am and got back a little after 1pm. We went to the NZ Maritime Museum first and joined the 10:30am guided tour. We were charged the Senior fare of $17 NZD each. We spent just over an hour there. Leaving we were in agreement that after one or two maritime museums it is all the same. So this was probably one too many for us. We had another Hokey Pokey ice cream cone each after the museum as we walked to New Zealand Fabrics & Yarn. Packed in a smaller space than yesterday's shop, the selection may have been greater but the prices were about double! That was a wasted walk! Back onboard, we ate at Trident Grill as it was late and I had seen a food kiosk selling toasties so I wanted a grilled cheese. After lunch, we went to Prego to make specialty restaurant reservations. We didn't get what we wanted but there was a restless and unruly bunch waiting behind us so we'll just have to try to make adjustments later.
We walked out this morning behind the Magic Castle magician we'd see shortly after departing LA. Today Reflections says we can book Magic Castle for this segment after 3pm so there must be a new magician coming onboard.
We sail at 6 pm and we have Silk reservations at 6 pm too.
I'll go ahead and post this now.
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