Mama Said ...

 

... "There'll be days like this, my Mama said," but she didn't say how many!  What should have been a dream journey for Jimmy and me with my sister, Nannie, and her husband, "Bubba," had a dismaying and inauspicious start.  More like nightmarish (and complex).  He and I were supposed to fly from Sacramento to NYC on JetBlue's Monday night redeye, to begin an Oceania Insignia cruise Tuesday afternoon.  When we arrived at the airport, we learned the flight had been canceled.  I'm not going to go into every minute detail (too depressing), but we ended up flying to Boston the next night where we hoped to catch the cruise, rather than in Halifax on Friday, which is what we'd been told.  Long story much shortened, we did get onboard in Boston, but it was touch-and-go.  

Nannie, and Bubba (who made the ship in NYC) and my brother, Rus, and his wife, Anne, (who live in the Boston area) helped us immensely, for which we are truly grateful.  If not for them, we would've been twiddling our fingers till Halifax (and it would have been horribly expensive).  Here's me and Jimmy after dinner our first night at Insignia's Terrace Cafe.  Don't we look happy?

Oh, yeah, what's not to like about lobster and shrimp?

We missed our first sail away in Manhattan, so we were up for watching Boston's sail away!  Planes were flying into Logan International every few minutes, very low above the ship, directly overhead!  We spent quite a bit of time watching boats and planes.  Logan is directly behind the sailboat. 

Looked like a fine sunset in the offing, too.

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Nannie and Bubba with downtown Boston as a backdrop.  This is their first cruise, also our first international trip with Nannie and Bubba.  We're sailing to Reykjavik, Iceland, via the US East Coast, with stops in Greenland.  Woohoo -- very exciting!  This will be our first time on Oceania.  Insignia is a much smaller than any Princess ship -- it carries only 684 passengers.

Yes, we all thought this sunset was a beauty.

Saying goodbye to the Boston Lighthouse ...

... as the harbor welcomes a freighter.

JetBlue heard from me.  I gave them a piece of my mind.  Jimmy and I also learned an expensive lesson.  Don't take the redeye if you're planning anything for the following day.  We'll never do that again.  Now we're where we're supposed to be, and life is looking really good.  Miracles happen.  Next up is Bar Harbor.  We've all been there before, but it'll be a fun time regardless.  Internet onboard is pretty sketchy, and it's only because we're in a city that I'm able to post this.  If I get a chance I'll get another post going before we sail away.  This is sooooooo cool.  We LOVE that we're sailing with Nannie and Bubba.  We love being on the water.