Tag: Silver Waves

Another day of fun and games, eating and drinking.

We left dinner a little early to catch an ABBA party. A different band called Mockingbird covered a nice cross section of their music. Danced the hour away then turned in.

Spent most of Monday being bums, playing games, and eating.

Monday was formal night, so here we are in the traditional grand staircase photo, looking all formal and stuff.

All the Waves.

More dancing with Moonshine and Mud then off to bed.

The Silver Waves made it to Port Canaveral and were boarded by about 11:30. Had a nice sit down lunch and were in our staterooms in time for shoving off.

Either we missed it on the last cruise or they didn’t do it, but you know how most ships blow their horn as they pull away from the dock? Yeah, Princess does that a bit differently. You’ve never really experienced the first couple measures of The Love Boat theme until you’ve heard it blasted out by a ship’s horns, echoing across the port.

Passed this interesting bit of machinery while heading to sea: SpaceX’s autonomous drone ship and a spent (and extra crispy) Falcon rocket first stage.

Had a nice dinner with the Waves, a bit of dancing with one of the house bands, Moonshine and Mud, then turned in for the night.

The doing life together group from The Vine church has been taking annual getaways for oh, at least 10 years. In 2025 we tried cruising together and loved it.

Almost immediately after that cruise we booked another a year later, to start on January 11th. Nine days with four port days in the Virgin Islands. We all met at Dan & Diane’s place on the 10th since it’s only 2 hours from Port Canaveral.

Why Silver Waves? Well, Eric has been playing with an app called Suno, an AI-powered tool that can write, arrange, and play a song based on a couple prompts describing what you’re looking for.

The evening before we shoved off, Eric gave Suno our first names, a couple of our hobbies and life circumstances, and it produced a rather clever sea shanty with the title “Silver Waves.”

So, that’s now the name of our band of mostly silver haired explorers.