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Carol Perkins: Part II: Special eligibles trip - on board the Conquest In this second of three, maybe more (previously announced as two) articles, our Metcalfe County and Beyond heroine and friends board the Conquest for a cruise to Montego Bay, Jamaica The next earlier Carol Perkins column: Carol Perkins: Special eligibles trips are all about Good Deals! By Carol Perkins My friends and I stood on the top deck of the Conquest and sailed out of the Mississippi River and into the Caribbean toward our first destination: Montego Bay, Jamaica. We would have two full days at sea before arrival. Our five rooms were in a row on the balcony side of the ship. Our first priority was getting the aluminum doors unlocked between them so we could talk, drink coffee, read when we had alone time, star watch, and swap stories. When all ten of us trekked to the main desk to give permission for the doors between us to be opened, two were told that their balcony door could not be unlocked, so I sensed an ugly site brewing. "Safety reasons. Your door would block the entrance to the door of the cabin next to you." "But we can push the door out of the way," they vowed but the Carnival official would not budge. Not surprisingly as New Orleans grew dim in the background, the 3,000 passengers converged on the food deck. We, too, made our way to the Lido Deck, which is where the pools are located. This is the ice cream deck, the pizza deck, the buffet deck, the hamburger deck, the sandwich deck and the central hanging out. This is the place that tempts the most nutritionally conscious person, and can easily add ten pounds to those who don't care. This is the place where I could get a fresh cup of coffee and ice cream at all times. Unlike on the Lido Deck where dress was very casual (sometimes embarrassingly casual), nighttime dining, for those who chose it, was more elegant. Two nights are actually called formal nights, but we left our prom dresses at home! The beauty of the dining room is the impeccable service and getting to know the waiters who work for months without returning to their homelands. Zeffery was our headwaiter and being inquisitive, we knew him well at the end of the week. (Yes, with a Z.) As for the dress up part, I wanted more than once to knock baseball caps off men's heads!! Twice during the cruise, Carnival offered a Las Vegas type show, so after dinner we followed the crowd to the showroom, and once again, rowed up. As we looked around and counted heads, we discovered some had ditched us for the casino, which was also the hot spot for the late, late nighters for the entertainment consisting of vocalist and bands and dancing. Occasionally we jumped up and "cut a rug" ourselves! Exhausted at the end of that night, we settled into our cabins and I began to search for a place to plug in my c-pap machine. My roommate pulled out her bed to check the lamp socket, but it was not for USA plugs. So, I made my way to the main desk for an extension cord that would reach to the only suitable outlet in the room. Twenty-five dollars later (for renting the cord), I discovered that my machine cord would actually reach across the room to the outlet (the rooms are not very wide). Too tired to go back downstairs, I plugged in my machine and as it began to pump air, fell fast asleep to the rocking of the ship. The next day we would be at sea, and I knew what I was going to do-have a massage and then pull a lounge chair into the shade of the upper deck and read, taking time out to eat or sleep. My friends would be baking in the sun, lined up together. By then, I was craving private time and they would understand. - CAROL PERKINS (The first days at sea are to follow in the next installment This story was posted on 2012-10-07 18:47:23
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