@sid_9169 wishing for your mother to get well soon, she must have a nasty bug. Your review and live vacation antics were truly enjoyable..thank you again
I don’t stress about dining…if I’m in the mood I share a table, if not I bring my iPad and read while dining. Sometimes I just strike up conversations while waiting for my table and invite people to dine with me. It is easy for me to do this on vacation, nobody knows me and will never see me again after the cruise. I have had drinks with 90 year old men and dinner with 80 year old women…both great conversationalist and highly entertaining. When on vacation I talk about anything and everything with everyone…if all else fails I talk about my dachshunds and where I come from..or even the best cruise I have ever been on…Just the more you talk the more you open your self up to activities with other people…if that is what you are looking for.
I would say pack light and remember to drink water in between the alcoholic drinks. My first cruise I packed way too much and sat in the sun drinking mud slides..really got sick.
I do bring a wristlet for dinners to carry lipstick,phone and keycard. I also card a tote for port and beach days. But I haven’t found the need for an actual purse on a cruise