Southampton, 3pm-ish
What is that looming over the arrivals and departures area like Megamall on the water?
It’s the shiny new Norwegian Epic—and by ‘epic’ they mean EPIC—cruise ship on its maiden voyage from Southampton.
This was my stateroom, number 13261
And this was my balcony, where I could sit and gaze at. . .water.
I thought I could liveblog the cruise, which is what bloggers are supposed to do, but that didn’t work out so my report on the Norwegian Epic will appear when I get home. For now let me say that one, the boat redefines all my notions of ginormousness, and two, there’s no drunken revelry like drunken revelry out at sea with 24-hour open bar. All superegos were shut down, it was a shipload of ids. It was insane. And I have evidence.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
June 24th, 2010 at 23:02
Where are you off to?!
June 24th, 2010 at 23:05
gorgeous room! gorgeous view! details on the revelry… hope you’re keeping tabs on the INSANE isner-mahut epic.
June 24th, 2010 at 23:11
Quick! Look at my most recent post! Kamukha ni ano!
June 24th, 2010 at 23:46
you seem to really love Coke, Jessica. :) you even brought a bottle in your stateroom.
June 25th, 2010 at 00:05
this inspires me to *wish* to go on a cruise :) maybe for me gazing at water will have the same calming effect as watching the aquarium channel :P
June 25th, 2010 at 00:10
That room is indeed gorgeous. Do they have internet on cruise ships?
June 25th, 2010 at 00:17
Ejia: And this is one of the smaller rooms. I will post photos of the truly fabulous quarters. They have villas! Yes, they have internet. And the England-Slovenia match was shown live on a giant screen, otherwise no one from England would get on the ship.
June 25th, 2010 at 00:18
Oriames: Or you could take up sailing. You don’t have to own a boat, you can sail other people’s boats.
June 25th, 2010 at 00:18
blackcat: Essential food group, along with coffee and chocolate.
June 25th, 2010 at 08:23
Very nice! Hope the rest of the trip goes well.