ukintheus
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2009
Welcome to anyone that follows along on our adventures from Galveston on the newly reimagined Wonder. It was another opportunity that couldn't be missed for those of us that live close when they announced that the inaugural sailing for the Wonder post-dry dock would be from Galveston and so we booked on opening day and had been waiting patiently.
Our itinerary was going to be:
11/9/16 - Tremont House, Galveston
11/10/16 - Embarkation
11/11/16 - Day at Sea
11/12/16 - Cozumel
11/13/16 - Day at Sea
11/14/16 - Debarkation
Wednesday, November 9th.
We both had to work all day so it was an early start to be packed and ready to leave the house by 5:20 am to be in work by 6:00 am. After the day crawwwwlllled by we finally got on the road at about 4 pm and made the slog through rush hour traffic across Houston and down to Galveston and made it down there at about 6 pm. I had booked us into the Tremont House for the night as I had noticed a really good rate of $139/night (plus taxes etc) about 2 months ago. The Tremont is a really beautiful historical hotel. We have stayed there once before prior to a cruise and really enjoyed it and the fact that it is so close to the Strand and the Pier area. As we checked in we were told they had upgraded our room and it was a really nice surprise to walk into a one bedroom suite. Pixie dust already!
The bedroom area, which seemed larger than the regular size room even without all the other stuff.
Kitchen/Butlers pantry - notice I already have put the ice bucket to good use.
Living room and dining room
I was starving at this point and so we left to go in search of dinner. We ended up at Olympia Grill at Pier 21. They still had the happy hour running for about 15 more minutes so I ordered a lemon drop martini and Scott had a beer and I inhaled most of the hummus in the first few minutes.
I had a lamb shank with pasta for my entree and Scott had lamb chops with grilled veggies but I forgot to take photographs because I was too busy feeding these two. They were feral but would come and take the food from your hand, although if you tried to touch them, they would swipe at you and run. They did pretty well for themselves with my food though.
It was pretty breezy out and the temperatures were definitely getting to be on the chilly side so we didn't hang about too long after we finished eating and we walked back to the hotel. I had seen that there was a rooftop bar at Tremont House and we hadn't been able to go up there last time we stayed because of the winds, so we decided to go and see what it was all about.
It was very quiet with very few people up there so we tried to tuck in out of the wind and had a glass of wine.
The Carnival Liberty was in port as she had been having some propulsion issues and had cancelled her last couple of sailings.
I was getting pretty cold and so we called it a night and headed back to the room. I took a nice hot shower to warm up and we were in bed by about 10 pm to get ready for all the excitement tomorrow.
Our itinerary was going to be:
11/9/16 - Tremont House, Galveston
11/10/16 - Embarkation
11/11/16 - Day at Sea
11/12/16 - Cozumel
11/13/16 - Day at Sea
11/14/16 - Debarkation
Wednesday, November 9th.
We both had to work all day so it was an early start to be packed and ready to leave the house by 5:20 am to be in work by 6:00 am. After the day crawwwwlllled by we finally got on the road at about 4 pm and made the slog through rush hour traffic across Houston and down to Galveston and made it down there at about 6 pm. I had booked us into the Tremont House for the night as I had noticed a really good rate of $139/night (plus taxes etc) about 2 months ago. The Tremont is a really beautiful historical hotel. We have stayed there once before prior to a cruise and really enjoyed it and the fact that it is so close to the Strand and the Pier area. As we checked in we were told they had upgraded our room and it was a really nice surprise to walk into a one bedroom suite. Pixie dust already!
The bedroom area, which seemed larger than the regular size room even without all the other stuff.
Kitchen/Butlers pantry - notice I already have put the ice bucket to good use.
Living room and dining room
I was starving at this point and so we left to go in search of dinner. We ended up at Olympia Grill at Pier 21. They still had the happy hour running for about 15 more minutes so I ordered a lemon drop martini and Scott had a beer and I inhaled most of the hummus in the first few minutes.
I had a lamb shank with pasta for my entree and Scott had lamb chops with grilled veggies but I forgot to take photographs because I was too busy feeding these two. They were feral but would come and take the food from your hand, although if you tried to touch them, they would swipe at you and run. They did pretty well for themselves with my food though.
It was pretty breezy out and the temperatures were definitely getting to be on the chilly side so we didn't hang about too long after we finished eating and we walked back to the hotel. I had seen that there was a rooftop bar at Tremont House and we hadn't been able to go up there last time we stayed because of the winds, so we decided to go and see what it was all about.
It was very quiet with very few people up there so we tried to tuck in out of the wind and had a glass of wine.
The Carnival Liberty was in port as she had been having some propulsion issues and had cancelled her last couple of sailings.
I was getting pretty cold and so we called it a night and headed back to the room. I took a nice hot shower to warm up and we were in bed by about 10 pm to get ready for all the excitement tomorrow.
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