Day 1 20/05/14 Thanks to Brian and Robyn Rumble for dropping us off at the Port of Brisbane to begin our adventure on the Dawn Princess, apparently there were nearly 2000 passengers embarked in Sydney and only 276 in Brisbane, numbers seem about right, should make for an interesting time when the state of origin is shown. We cast off at about 5:00 p.m. and headed out to sea, where we experienced calm seas and good weather. At 5:45 p.m. we made our way to the Florentine dining room for our evening meal, we have a table of six but there were only two sho showed up, two ladies from N.Z. they both seem like nice girls around our age, and will be our dining companions, until they disembark in Auckland. The meal tonight was superb
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