{"id":14499,"date":"2025-04-07T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14499"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:50:44","slug":"ncl2-day-2-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/ncl2-day-2-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL2 Day 2: At sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breakfast with Ray and Edna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Our initial impression that this cruise will be very sedate compared to Carnival was confirmed on Day 2. The passengers are mostly older – even older than we are – and seem to be content drinking in the bars, reading and playing cards. But everyone is friendly. We met a couple from California at lunch and a couple from Las Vegas at dinner. I did a lot of reading and we napped a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The food so far is like the ship – good, but not flashy. I won’t starve but I probably won’t ask for their recipes, either.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Us after dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One thing that has surprised us: the Jade has a very nice pub where the food is free. Have to pay for the beer, of course, and they aren’t cheap (about $10). But I can have a very nice pub meal with a beer for about $10. Haven’t used it yet, but we will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ended the day in the casino. We didn’t do well, but we had our choice of machines. The casino on the Jade <\/em>is not crowded. We need to pace ourselves for 25 days so we won’t have to take out second mortgages to settle our bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our initial impression that this cruise will be very sedate compared to Carnival was confirmed on Day 2. The passengers are mostly older – even older than we are – and seem to be content drinking in the bars, reading and playing cards. But everyone is friendly. We met a couple from California at lunch … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,114,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-cruise","category-ncl2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3LR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14505,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}