MM 7 — Day 1: A Virgin No More
A cruise virgin, that is.
If you’ve read my coverage of last July’s MacMania 4.5, you may recall the story that fellow-cruiser Erik Pitti and me were asked if we were virgins. Let’s just sum this whole embarrassing incident up by saying that that was in reference to us both being on our very first-ever cruise.
As with every premier(e), there are a few things to learn before you can fully enjoy your cruise, and the embarkation process is part of it, as is the life boat safety drill. Sounds menacing at first, but after you’ve been through this once, it’s a minor item to check off on your cruise to-do list, so I’ll spare you any further first impressions, as I’ve written about those quite extensively already.
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Moved into the cabin, got more-than-was-necessary annoyed by the noisy airco, grabbed some food on the not-quite-as-spectacularly-posh-as-the-name-suggests Lido deck, greeted my cabin steward, unpacked, went through the safety drill, called home quickly to give ‘em the all-thumbs-up, and waited for cast off.
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5:00 pm. Let the voyage begin! Sail away, Cap’n!
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Apparently, this cruise is the biggest one for Geek Cruises/InSight Cruises, yet: each of the two seminar tracks — called “MacMania 7” and “Shakespeare at Sea“, respectively — has some 120 participants. That’s quite a crowd, and so the Bon Voyage parties have been split up, as well. While the Shakespeare’ians enjoyed theirs in the Crow’s Nest, us MacManiacs have congregated on the after Lido deck. Interesting crowd, this, and some of the luminary speakers like Macworld’s Jason Snell, the NY Times’s David Pogue, and Derrick Story have joined in the fun, as well.
Looks like this will be a fun cruise.
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