Here's an up-to-date itinerary reflecting the change Holland America just made (actually, they only switched the days between two of our ports-of-call):
Saturday - Embarkation, Ft. Lauderdale - 5 PM (boarding usually starts around noon or earlier if all the cabins are clean, etc.)
Sunday - Half Moon Cay - 8 AM to 4 PM
Freeper Beach Party
First formal dinner night
Monday - At Sea
Tuesday - Tortola, British Virgin Islands - 7 AM to 6 PM
Wednesday - St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 7 AM to 6 PM
Thursday - At Sea
FRN Group Meeting in Oak Room Salon (off Crow's Nest Lounge) - 9:15 AM to 12:15 PM - (coffee/and will be served, smoking lamp lit)
Second formal dinner night (not confirmed yet)
Friday - Nassau, Bahamas, 12 PM to 7 PM
Saturday - Return to Ft. Lauderdale - 8 AM. (disembarkation does NOT start at 8, you'll get off when the ship clears customs and as your numbers are called....and then YOU have to clear customs).
Somewhere in the above calendar there should be a freeper complimentary cocktail party. This party is now in doubt as we don't have the minimum number of registrants the cruise line requires for group freebie cocktail parties.
However, I'm in hard debate and wheedling mode with the cruise line powers-that-be as we speak, and I hope to pull this one out of the fire. If we don't qualify and the line won't relent, we'll figure out something else for a get-together.
After all, last year we awarded the Clinton voodoo doll as the cocktail party gag gift....and we have TWO hillaryous gag gifts we MUST award this time.
We shall find a time and place to party. We will not fail or flag. We will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the seas, we will fight in the cities, we will never surrender, we......oops, get the hook and get me off the stage.
Leni