Mystery noise
As we passed a part of the island where people live, we heard a lot of yelling and whistles. We also saw a lot of flashes of light.
Last tender
Make sure we don't miss it! We always take a picture of the sign!
Our ship!
We sat at the very back of the tender. It gave us a great view of the ship as we headed to Cienfuegos.
In the water!
We got to see how they put the tenders in the water. Interesting.
Tenders
We had to tender to the port. They used the life rafts right outside our door!
Last tender
Make sure we don't miss it! We always take a picture of the sign!
Our ship!
We sat at the very back of the tender. It gave us a great view of the ship as we headed to Cienfuegos.
In the water!
We got to see how they put the tenders in the water. Interesting.
Tenders
We had to tender to the port. They used the life rafts right outside our door!
Great view!
A great view of our ship in port at Havana.
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Turns
We took a zig zag course coming in to Havana. The distance from Key West and Havana is so short, even going as slowly as we could the Captain said we couldn't go slow enough so we took turns to waste time.
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Day 9 - Havana!
So excited to go to Cuba today. Also, my birthday! You can see our route on the screen. It's just crazy!
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Towel animal!
So cute! I think we decided this was a dog.
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Cuba tomorrow!
When we got back to our room we had these waiting for us. Tomorrow is our first day in Cuba, We were on Holland's inaugural cruise to Cuba. They gave us these Cuban flags and pins to wear and wave when we pulled in to port in the morning.
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Singers
They had some of the performers from the ship lead the caroling.
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Going to the room
The best part was they told us our room was ready. We have never boarded and immediately been able to go to our room. We've always had to wait a couple of hours or longer.
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Day 3
Boarding! This morning we woke up, ate breakfast nd checked out We were going to catch the shuttle but it seemed like the entire hotel had the same idea so, we caught a cab, walked right up to the counter and right on to the ship! It was the easiest boarding I think we've ever had for a cruise.