Cruising on Carnival's Imagination Part 1
Yup, I did it again! On Thursday, March 15th, my friend Barb and I took a three night cruise. It was her first cruise ever. Of course, before getting in the car for the drive to Long Beach, we had to take our picture. If you are not familiar with Southern California traffic patterns, there is no way for you to know how long your drive is going to be. You can take an educated guess but that's the problem - you're guessing. We left Riverside at 10:45 in the morning so we didn't have to worry about any possible delays. Both of us were shocked when we arrived at the port of Long Beach in just under an hour. The cruise line's website urges you not to arrive early and I was a bit concerned because we were not scheduled to check-in until 12:30 so I took my time parking and figured we would just sit in the new terminal. I was actually looking forward to seeing it since it had recently gone through a major rennovation. We breezed through three security checkpoints an...