As we were not sailing to the Saturday, we took a trip to the local cross-stitch store and of course i managed to find a “free pattern” well free if you bought the kit to go with it! But it was an adorable little pin cushion with crabs on it, so I am happy. That evening we just had food delivered to the room as it was far to cold to walk anywhere.

Saturday morning we were off to the cruise terminal and I have to say it was a rely smooth boarding process. No queues at all and straight up to our room to leave hand luggage then off for an explore of the ship and lunch. 2.30 we checked in at the stitching meeting room and were given our swag ( all the stitchers will know what that means) we were all scheduled for an early dinner sitting but we had a small table for 6 allocated to us and we were also able to use that table for the rest of the trip, but by special arrangement we were allowed to chose food from any of the 4 main dining rooms. These were themed, we were in Cyprus and then there was Cosmoploitan, Tuscany and Normandie.





Both Sunday and Monday are sea days as we cruise on down to Basseterre/St Kits/Nevis arriving on Tuesday morning. On Sunday we spent a great deal of the day in the stitching room, there was a presentation from Jean Farish in the morning and then smalls exchange swap was in the afternoon. For my British friends, you can imagine how excited i was to find that afternoon tea had scones, clotted cream and strawberry jam, it was lovely but they did insist in over sweetening the scones, luckily not enough to stop my enjoyment.

Here is a little information on the ship I am on, it’s Celebrity Apex, it can carry about 2500 passengers and on this trip there have been no children visible. The room is very nice, plenty of storage space and a lovely little balcony area with seats and a coffee table. The top half of the picture window can slide down so you can get plenty of fresh air. We are on Deck 6 so maybe 3 floors above the water, which makes it pretty stable. Great sunrise this morning and after breakfast we had a class with Michelle Bendy Stitcher and she showed us how to add beads and netting to this great project.

