Our World Cruise Journey

We arrived home last evening and will spend the next several days unpacking and getting settled back into our routine.

We enjoyed our final evening on board the Crystal Serenity after we last posted. The four of us enjoyd another great dinner in Silk Road. Afterwards, we attended the farewell show. It was wonderful and emotional for many of us. After the show, we went to the Crystal Cove where there was jazz music and a countdown to the end of the 2008 World Cruise and then hundreds of balloons and lots of confetti dropped from the ceiling. The atmosphere was wonderful and it was very similar to a New Years Eve Celebration. We hugged so many of our fellow passengers. We saw several members of the crew including Cruise Director Rick Spath and we all hugged.

The good news is that we turned the clocks back when we got back to our room that evening on the ship rather than the night before which would normally be the case. That was an excellent approach by Crystal and allowed us to get one additional hour back to compensate for us getting up earlier in the morning.

We were with the group that was first off the ship. We arrived in port early so that extra time was provided to get all of the luggage off the ship. We got off the ship on schedule at 6:00 AM and about fifteen minutes were off in our vehicle which carried myself, my wife, our daughter and son in law and lots of luggage. We got to Heathrow by 8:00 AM. We were very pleasantly surprised that the check in at Heathrow was easy and we made in through security in a minute. It might be that with the new BA terminal open that it has relieved congestion in the other terminals. We are not taking BA. We enjoyed a nice breakfast in the airport lounge.

Our daugther and son-in-laws flight departed about 45 minutes before our flight. We departed on time but landed about thirty minutes late due to weather conditions. We arrived home before 7:00 PM and we took care of a number of items before going to sleep.

For us, the World Cruise does not end. This is because we experienced so many memorable events on both the 2007 and the 2008 World Cruise that we will remember for the rest of our lives. As we said from our very first post, the World Cruise is unlike and other cruise and clearly is an adventure.

We hope that you have enjoyed being a part of our adventure.

Keith & Anne Marie