Double Chocolate Chip

We've been waiting since December to learn whether Sapphire Princess could deliver when it comes to our vacations' premier delight - their famous Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cookies. Within minutes of boarding (noon today) we had the answer. Now it's but a matter of keeping our little secret.

Sapphire is one of the line's largest ships, and this opportunity may be among our last to experience her before she is refurbished at dry dock during January, 2012. We dread returning after that and finding the posh Wheelhouse meeting area gone, same as Island, Diamond and Grand have experienced. There has been no greater cruise joy than to sit with friends at the Wheelhouse, surrounded by such elegance as often described in great ocean liners of the past.

Our stateroom has a picture-window view of the Pacific. Opposite that, though, is the work area. I'll be spending the next two weeks grinding out my next chapter whilst Danny keeps tab of things in the Casino.

We chanced meeting a gentleman at the Dining Room with whom we shared during dinnertime. The fun was that he and I were born in the same Michigan city, grew up knowing the same street names, school names, and locations only we could know. What fun!

Dan's now snoring. The sound lulls me to thoughts of doing the same. We've already met a number of folks that have traveled great distances today. Our own one hour trip to the port was nothing by comparison but our exhaustion tells on us.