This is the amount of pizza that they will initially give to you. I thought it was quite a bit of pi

Over the next couple of days I'm going to be writing 6 different posts about our Carnival Legend Cruise. The first one in this series is going to be a little less personalized, but focus on what it is like on the ship.
Here is the terminal in Tampa. We were shocked by the fact that we HAD to have our passports. I had read in various places online that if you are sailing out of a US port and then arriving back into that same port that you do not need a passport. However, they wouldn't even let us on the ship without it. Also, they were very strict about alcohol. They thoroughly searched every bottle that we brought onto the ship. You are allowed to bring 12 bottles of drinks per person onto the ship, and they individually checked each seal of our bottles international air travel to make sure they were alright. This was during spring break time, and the people checking bags were talking about how they had found alcohol in shampoo bottles and the like. So if you're trying international air travel to sneak alcohol onto the ship... good luck!
Once we got onto the ship we went straight to our room. We had an inside cabin, and the next time that we cruise we will not do this. We thought that we wouldn't be in our room much and that it wouldn't matter if we had an inside cabin, but this was not necessarily true. It was worst in the morning because there was no natural sunlight in our room, and we didn't bring a clock with us... so we never had any idea what time it was. Two o clock in the morning international air travel or two o clock in the afternoon... it didn't make a difference in our room. It was always pitch black. Also it was hard to watch the sunrises/sunsets because first we had to know exactly what time it would be at because of the lack of light in our room, and we had to walk up a couple of decks to see it. We've already decided that next time we will spring for a balcony room. This picture is the storage area in front of the bed. In the right corner you can see the ONE outlet in the room. So make sure that you take some type of power cord or additional outlets if you have a lot to plug in your room.
Here is our bed. The first day and last night they put a luggage pad on the bed to pack and unpack things from your suitcase. This is a "king" sized bed. It's really just two mattresses pushed together, and you can feel the crack in the middle pretty bad. Our bed never drifted apart, international air travel but the crack in the middle was annoying because it seemed like one of us was always laying on it. The pillows were alright. They weren't great, but not the worst I've ever slept on.
Here is the bathroom. This picture might be a little bit deceiving because it looks like there are more shelves in the room than there actually are. The mirror in the bathroom has shelves attached to it, and when I took the picture the shelves reflected in the mirror. However, these shelves are very practical and useful. The bathroom was really small, but efficient. I never put my make or did my hair in the bathroom, but at the mirror above across the bed. There are no outlets in the bathroom. The only outlet international air travel is literally the one that I mentioned above.
I'm not going to lie when I first saw this toilet I said "Where is the toilet seat" it looked like it was missing international air travel a piece, but no... that's how it is supposed to be. You can see how CLOSE it is to the shower.
international air travel Here is a picture of the shower, and I admit this isn't the best picture. But don't expect a large shower. It was tiny. I felt a little claustrophobia in it. Carnival does provide you will body soap gel and shampoo. I used the shampoo and my own conditioner most nights.
Here is the Lido deck or 9th deck. It was one of the more popular places to be. This is where the main pool was and the live music. international air travel There were also always chairs in this section. One thing about the pools is that they have sea water in them... or salt water!
This is our safety drill or our Muster area. As you can see they line people up in rows in front of each other. You can kind of see the guy wearing the orange jacket that was doing the safety drill. I'm glad that we didn't have an accident and that I needed to see or hear what he was saying... because to be honest I couldn't do either. We got to our muster area pretty quickly and I think all together the were about 6 rows of people, and about 4 of those rows were in front of us. They say that the taller people should go to the back and that the shorter people should be in the front, but it's not really enforced and most people don't want to be separated from their groups. It was pretty inefficient. They did do it before we ever sailed from the port though. After the drill was done then the ship left.
Compared to other Carnival ships there is not a lot of "fun water" stuff on this ship. I saw other Carnival ships next to us with a whole water play land. The Legend does not have that. It has this one water slide and then some pools. The pools aren't really meant for swimming though. They are pretty small in size and are meant for just sitting around.
Here is the front of the ship. As you can see by the high walls around the front of the ship... don't expect to get your "Titanic Moment". You know where she puts her arms out and feels like she's flying. There isn't any place to do that on this ship. I was slightly disappointed.
This is the amount of pizza that they will initially give to you. I thought it was quite a bit of pizza! You can also order your own personal pan sized type of pizza with whatever you like on it. Getting that type of pizza will take you a little bit longer than just getting pepperoni or cheese. They do not make large pizzas. These two slices are half of the original pizza that they made. So each pizza is cut in 4 slices. I found that this made it more likely that they would run out of pizza before you got up to it. They would bring out a new pizza and if two people were in front of you in line it was likely that the pizza would be gone when you got up, and then you'd have to wait a few minutes for the next one. I only ate here once, but that was what happened to me.
Here is the table area. I was sort of surprised that you didn't have to bus your own table. When you are done eating you just leave your plate there and they have people around to clean the tables off.
There were a lot of seats that had ocean views. I think that we sat by a table with an ocean view each time that we ate in here. Which was twice a day. We never had any issue getting a seat by the window.
international air travel Here is the main drink station. You'll find tea, coffee, lemonade, water, orange juice, and apple juice in this area. Make sure that you get ice if you are going to drink water... because more than once I got it and it was kind of warm.
Here is the size of the cups they give you. I thought the best way to show it was to put it next to one of the bottles of pop that I had brought onto the ship. We almost always international air travel had to refill the cups a couple of times before we were done eating international air travel our meal.
Here is the grill. There are different international air travel foods here every day. We usually ate here mostly for breakfast. The breakfast was really good. It was a lot better than a continental breakfast. There were pancakes, banana bread, waffles, sausage, bacon, eggs, muffins, cereal, international air travel yogurt, potatoes... and etc... The only thing that I didn't like is that I thought the scrambled eggs were TERRIBLE... they tasted like they had been made from a powder substance and not actually eggs. They had a weird texture to them and they didn't even taste like eggs. The boiled eggs were alright though. Everything else was pretty good. Everyday they had regular pancakes and then a speciality pancake... one morning they had banana pancakes and another they have blueberry.
Here is a good shot of the Lido deck. You can see this is where most of the contests are, and a lot of people dance and have fun here. That is the stage for the live music. Most of the performers were decent. The entertainers were mostly in their 50's or 60's so that is the type of music that was played, but it was enjoyable for everyone.
Here is Truffles Restaurant. This is the only free sit down restaurant on the ship. They had one other restaurant which was the golden fleece steakhouse that you could pay $30 to go to. We never went to it. We ate dinner at Truffles every night. On nights when the ship was rocking Truffles was a horrible place to be in!! I think that it was probably the most rocky section of the ship. You could really feel the ship moving there. We actually had to leave dinner early one night because we couldn't take it anymore. If you have sea sick medication and you feel the ship rocking one night make sure to take some before going to Truffles.
Here is the inside of Truffles. I thought it was very pretty inside. We had anytime dining which was GREAT! We loved the flexibility. A lot of people had assigned dining times on the ship. They had to eat at either international air travel 6:15 or 8:15. We on the other hand had any time dining so we could eat anytime between 5:45 and 9:30. This was very convenient. Although it seems like we usually international air travel ate around 8 o clock anyways. But one night we went to the 7 o clock show on the ship and we liked it so much that we wanted to go back to it. When the show let out it was about 8, so we went straight to Truffles and got our food. It usually took us about an hour to eat our food. So after dinner we went back to the show and got to see it again. People with the specific dining time wouldn't have had this option, because they would have had to wait until 8:15 to eat. There are two different levels of Truffles. The top portion is for anytime diners, and then the bottom portion is for specific seating time people. The top level of Truffles is open at anytime, but the bottom international air travel level's doors do not open until 6:15 or 8:15. Often times people getting out of the 7 o clock show at 8 have to wait 15 minutes before they can be seated. Whereas we could go right up and eat. The only time that we had to wait for a seat was the first nigh