Today we had a full crew emigration. For passengers you go through emigration when you get back from a cruise, but for crew we’re always on the ship so it happens the week after you get on, the day you get off, or close to when you are about to cross to another country as your port. We’re about a month away from going back to Barcelona, so it was everybody. This is good and bad. It meant that all the new sign-ons and the people leaving that day had to be there at 8:30. Originally all entertainers were supposed to be there at 10:30, but they switched it to all US Citizens there at 8:45. There is less hassle with US citizens in a US port.
The major downfall of this is that no one can leave the ship until everyone has gone through…and there are always people who forget or don’t even know it is happening. So, instead of getting off around 10-10:30 we couldn’t get off the ship until about 12:30. We did get to hear announcement of “will [one crew member’s name] please report to emigration immediately”…so everyone waiting to get off knew exactly who was the cause of it.
So, it was a short day in New York, but it was 70 degrees! Amazing, considering it was 21 with 10 inches of snow on last Sunday or Monday.
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