A Fabulous Day at Sea Feature Article Discussion Forum

This morning started with my daughter and I getting up at 6:00 am, when the ship was passing by the Rock of Gibraltar. We had hoped that it would daylight at that time of day, but it was still dark so the view was not any different than what we saw last year when we passed by at 10:00 pm. So it was back to bed for a few hours.

The first event that I attended was the Cruise Critic gathering. Cruise Critic is one of the oldest most established cruising websites on the internet with hundreds of thousands of members. Celebrity always hosts a gathering for their members aboard its ships which is usually about 100 people or fewer, but on this cruise there were over 250 people at the gathering. It made it a little difficult to meet others from the message board, but still I did meet some nice people.

The next event was one of the best events we’ve attended here on the Solstice, the Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass show. This was a special “You Design It” show for the kids in the youth program. The kids had come with drawings they had made of their own glass piece. Our daughter had drawn a detailed electric guitar and she was thrilled when the glass artist, called a gaffer, chose her design to create in glass. The gaffer, Brenna, choose the …