Was the 4th off the ship and I booked my Uber from the gangway like a boss so my car was ready for me as soon as I walked out. Beat the surge pricing hell yeeeeahhh!
Although I am at the rental car place 35 minutes before they open.
I've been awake since like 2:30am and can't get back to sleep.. but the plus side of that is that I got to see the underside of the Sydney Harbour Bridge about 25 minutes ago. Pretty keen to get off the ship and on the road apparently. I'm glad I went to bed relatively early!
Still won't be able to disembark for 2 hours due to the customs staff not being at the terminal until 6:30am.. which is ok because the car hire place doesn't open until 7:30am.
Yeah that fever is a bastard. I hope it passes soon for you. I was taking pseudoephedrine and mersynofen every 4 hours (which I've sadly run out of, I might head to the medical centre for more now) and I've been sleeping as much as I can.
Be me trying to reserve an Uber for when my cruise gets back in: "7am from White Bay Cruise Terminal"
Uber: You got it! 6am booking confirmed. Driver will wait until 6:12am.
3 times just to make sure it wasn't something I was doing. Every time. $48 for 15 minutes estimated drive too.
Might try and sneak my way onto the shuttle bus which goes to central then just make my way from there to the car hire place.
Meanwhile! I still have a train ticket booked which I'm just not going to use. Ship gets into Sydney at 4:30am, so when I booked it I figured I'd have HOURS to kill before the 7:40am train. Turns out disembarkation will start at around 6:45am so if something caused any delay I'd miss that train anyway. If I wasn't carrying my own bag out my disembarkation group time is 8:35am so that would have been doublefucked.
The upside to all of this is that last night I extended my car hire by a day and booked myself a room in Albury for the night so I don't need to do the entire drive in a day. So now it's not a big deal if I don't get going from Sydney as early as humanly possible.
Oh boy.. I haven't had to do much in the way of talking today and I just tried to sing a little in my cabin. Seems I've only got about 80% of my voice! I guess karaoke is off the table.. not that I'd go and sing into a mic with COVID anyway. I thought I sounded a bit deep when I spoke to someone earlier.
Just went over to Lifou for 45 minutes or so. It's so insanely hot. I'm still not 100% so I honestly had to be really careful over there or I felt like I might've passed out. Walked into the sea up to my knees which was like warm bath water. I wish I was feeling up to swimming. Oh well.. very glad to be back in the shade!
Meanwhile this might be a bit of a hot take or sensitive topic or whatever but there are loads of ladies getting about rocking bikinis with and without G-string bikini bottoms who are on the more voluptuous/plus size and I think the confidence is sexy as hell. I don't know what they're feeling on the inside but they're rocking the outside. Might not be for everyone but attitude and confidence in one's own skin are probably the most attractive traits to me. Get it, ladies.
I'm freeeeee! Just a bit of sniffles left and the medical centre has given me the ok to leave isolation.
Edit: interesting development.. just showered and put deodorant on and I can't smell anything haha
What an odd sensation. Coconut sunscreen.. nothing. Cologne.. nothing.
Going to find some breakfast to check on taste but toothpaste was barely noticeable soooo
Edit edit: I can kinda taste ketchup but that was about it from my eggs and bacon breakfast. I should just eat the healthy stuff I might not usually eat.
"First class" on the Melbourne <> Sydney XPT fucking sucks. I paid extra expecting comfort, a table and power points just like the photos online but what it is in reality is similar to economy airline seats which recline a fairly long way, which the bogan in front of me has used to its fullest the entire way. No table (besides flip down trays on the seatback which I can't use with bogan reclined. No power.
Seriously considering hiring a car and driving home after the cruise.
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Was the 4th off the ship and I booked my Uber from the gangway like a boss so my car was ready for me as soon as I walked out. Beat the surge pricing hell yeeeeahhh!
Although I am at the rental car place 35 minutes before they open.