FREEDOM OF THE SEAS

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
The shuttle dropped me off in front of a montrosity! I had to strain my neck to see the top of the ship. Sat outside waiting until about 10:30am when they started letting crew board. I was so nervous and so excited, i knew that once I was over the gangway there was a whole new world waiting for me. I was right! They search you when you get on, our bags were dumped and we were shuttled off into a room known as the Crew day room. There were about 40 of us starting new. Filled in paperwork listened to the training speech and had pphotos taken for our ID cards.
One of my fitnes team was sent down from the spa to show me around, he is a South African! Fantastic!
A quick brief tour of the ship left me speechless, It was even bigger inside, it has everything that you can imagine on it! Running track, Wave rider, Climbing wall, about 5 pools, a few Jaccuzi, H2O world to name a few. The gym is huge, top notch equipment, Spinning bikes like Cyclelab.
We eat in the Staff mes as apposed to crew mes so we have nicely layed tables and cutlery, floweres and a full buffet. You have a choice of about 5 different salads,main meals, desserts, cheeses, coldmeats, soups and there are machines for juice, coffee, tea etc. It is just like a hotel.
Started work at about 3pm showing people around.

The ship set sail at 5pm, went to statnd on the balcony to watch it leave. It was a fantaastic site, all the cruise liners leave together, passing each other, hooting, waving, I had goose bumps all over.

Got into bed at about 9pm when i got a phone call in my room asking me to do the parade at 11:30 down the promanade. I left a bit to late and It took me half an hour to make my way there, landed up being late!
Finally got back to the cabin, which is very tiny, the upside being that we have our own TV and DVD in our cabin, all I wanted was to sleep, it had been a very hectic day!