Turn Around Day

We had a very interesting turn around day in San Francisco.

I told you about the Coast Guard inspection. Well, for who

knows what reason (maybe too many non-USA citizens aboard)

the immigration process took much longer than planned.

Then the Coast Guard had to come on and do their inspection.

There were around 30 in transit passengers and we were told

if we left the ship we could not return until 1:00 PM when the

Coast Guard was supposed to be through. When we returned

around 1:30 we passed a long line and when we got to the front

had to delicately make our way through to reboard the ship.
Fortunately, the people near the front of the line understood

what “passenger in transit” meant and kindly let us through

without complaining about us jumping the line. From where

we were sent, we think we boarded on the crew deck.

We went to the Horizon Court (buffet) and found 5 people

there waiting to get food. We finally got some French fries

from the grill and we sat there looking at the line outside

and being glad we were where we were. It was like being

on a ghost ship. Weird.

Finally about 3:15 the Coast Guard cleared the ship and

passengers could start boarding. I know there were some

angry people but I haven’t heard a lot of complaints. It was

quite warm outside and people were waiting for hours.