Day 16 – April 2, 2019 – Port Canaveral, Florida

This morning we woke up just as we were coming into Port Canaveral.

We had breakfast in the Grand Dining Room. Jim had granola with a banana and a brioche. Patricia had watermelon slices and a waffle.

Port Canaveral information:

Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Branford County, Florida. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with nearly 2.8 million multi day cruise passengers passing through annually. As a deep water cargo port, it has a high volume of traffic. The channel is about 44 feet deep.

In 1982, a 20,000 ft.² warehouse on the north side of the port was converted into Cruise Terminal 1. This is the terminal that our ship, the Marina, came in.

We decided to explore the port and see what was outside the ship. We had some fun photo opportunities.

We got back to the ship just as it started to rain really hard.

We had lunch at the Terrace Cafe. Jim had margarita pizza with some swedish meatballs. Patricia had vegetable spring rolls, avocado, green peas and egg salad sandwich and a tomato, cucumber and onion stack. For dessert we each had a scoop of ice cream. Jim had mint chocolate chip and Patricia had swiss mocha.

We went back to the room to read.

Patricia is on her 4h book. So far she has read Joe Biden’s book “Promise Me Dad”, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love” by Dani Shapiro, “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones and working on “The Good Girl” by Mary Kubica.”

We left Port Canaveral right on time guided out by the security boat.

We had dinner at the Terrace Cafe. Jim had beef wellington and mashed potatoes and gravy. Patricia had chicken a la Kiev and garlic rice.

On our way back to our room we stopped at the Executive Lounge for a cup of coffee and tea.

Good night from the Atlantic Ocean as we go rocking and rolling on the sea!

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