Dream ~ Day 1

We arrived in Port Canaveral a little after noon on Saturday and it was quite impressive to see the ship we were about to get on!  It was quite large!  The Dream is Carnival's largest ship and it was very nice!

We took a few hours just exploring the ship and enjoying some sun.  I knew I could handle this for a few days!

We set sail a little after 4pm.  We first went to our safetey course ~ Brian said we could skip it but I was too afraid that they would be taking names of who was and was not there.  They did not and the course basically only told us to make sure the life jacket goes over your head.  I'm glad we did not need any other safety tips this trip.

We set our dinner time for the late seating to have more time during the day to see and do things.  It is always interesting that first night showing up for dinner and wondering who you will be seated with.  We were seated at a booth, so it would just be one other couple with us.  We were there first, so we sat for a few minutes hoping they would be pretty cool because we would be dining with them for the next 7 nights!  To our delight, it was a very nice couple celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.  They were from Pennsylvania.  We had a good time each night with them at dinner and a couple of times went to some shows together after dinner.

We finished the first night at the Welcome Aboard Show.  It was a variety show of all the different shows that we could see for the upcoming week.  It was very entertaining and got me excited for all the fun activities we could partake in over the next few days.

Every night I looked forward to getting the itinerary for the next day and seeing what shape the towel on our bed would be.