Our twelve day cruise

We started this cruise in the cold weather of Quebec. When we left the temperature was in the high 30s and the skies were overcast. The ship’s swimming pools had been drained due to the high winds. We were soon off on our Royal Caribbean 12 day cruise aboard the Legend of the Seas to from Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA

Our first port was Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. This was a charming small town of 38,000 people. The town was being kept open until the cruise ship left, then all the snowbirds would head south. We noticed signs in different shops saying that the shop would remain open through November 6, which is the day we were there. So, we closed their tourist season. We walked around the town, enjoying the sights and the old, historic buildings.

The city had put these mice statues around town for the tourists to look for and find for some reward from the tourist office.

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

This port we missed due to high winds. The winds the night before were 75 miles per hour and they had not calmed down much by morning so the captain called off this port.

BOSTON, MASS.

This was our first time ever in Boston, Mass. From the ship we took the Subway Silver Line, which is a bus, running both on the street and in a subway tunnel. It was also a combination diesel and electric bus, part of the area having overhead electric lines and part being regular city streets. Anyway, we took this bus to South Station, where we caught the real subway to the Museum of Fine Arts where they were having a special exhibition on the Spanish painter, Goya. 

Laura went to the exhibit while Jim walked around the city for a couple of hours. She even found a painting by Joohn Steuart Curry, the man who painted the murals in the Kansas Capital. 

Then we walked around downtown Boston, enjoying the many historical sites. Finally we took the subway back to our ship.

The Boston subways need some upgrade on their rolling stock. The cars were old and very well used. 

The Silver line looked like Boston started a new subway line and ran out of money, or something. First time we ever rode in a bus in a subway tunnel.

The Museum of Fine Arts was near Northeastern University so it was fun to walk around their campus. This was a wall near the university.

After leaving Boston we finally hit warm weather. On day eight of our cruise people began to go to lounge around the outside pool area. Before that the pool deck looked empty like this.

BERMUDA

We docked in a different part of Bermuda than we had on our two previous cruises here. This time were docked at King’s Wharf, across from Port Hamilton where we had docked before. To get to Port Hamilton was either a one hour bus ride or a twenty minute ferry ride for four dollars. We decided to stay in the new port and check out the area and then go to the Museum of Bermuda the following day. We saw the damage that the last two hurricanes in October had caused the island. The port area shops and docks were mostly repaired but there was still storm damage visible.

Jim liked this bird, but has no idea what it is.

Jim also like this white Bird of Paradise.

  The second day we were in Bermuda we spent at the old British Colonial fort.

Some of the inhabitants of the fort were very pregnant.

As we left the fort, Bermuda was getting ready for Christmas.

From Bermuda it was a two day cruise to Fort Lauderdale. During this cruise we lost electricity in our section of the ship for about half an hour. Was interesting seeing the emergency lighting along the floor. Now we know where the emergency lighting is, if the ship is ever sinking.