Grand Princess

Grand Princess
Originally uploaded by Rob Wooldridge.

A picture of the cruise ship we sailed on, the Grand Princess, taken from a launch travelling to Delos. The ship has "a maximum passenger capacity of 2600 passengers in 710 staterooms. At the time of her launch, she was the biggest and the most expensive cruise ship ever built (a distinction now carried by the ship Freedom of the Seas)." There were approximately 2,600 crew to attend to our needs, but I never met an American crew member. Most were from Eastern Europe, China, and the Philipines.
Sarema and I thought the ship looked a little bit like a shopping cart, with the handle at the stern (shown on the right side of this picture). The "handle" is actually a nightclub; 120 feet above the water.