The wind was still blowing, most of it created by our 25 mile-per-hour forward speed, and it still chills, but the cold bite was gone. This is a great time to be out as most of the ship is deserted. The drink-carrying crowd are still sleeping off the drinks from the night before, and the only ones up are the early walkers and people like me who get so kinked up from lying still that sleep is no longer an option. My lower back is a mess and I get reminded of it every morning, usually fairly early.
Today is an at-sea day. It takes two full days to travel to Cozumel and we will arrive tomorrow morning. So we’re limited to activities on the ship. There are a lot of them but the list gets considerably smaller when you leave out drinking, gambling, and buying stuff. As our table-mate said at dinner, “we are value-oriented.” Translation: we are cheap.
Value-oriented: I like that.
We had a leisurely start to the day and a leisurely breakfast. We did some walking on the upper decks, and then it was time for lunch. It had warmed up considerably in the early afternoon, and we spent some time in the deck chairs on the promenade deck on the sunny side of the ship, feeling very much like a cat in the sunshine. Sitting in the sun eating ice cream: I could go for this ... for about a half hour. Then it’s time to get up and do something.
One of the activities was tea time at 3pm. A very popular event by the lineup at the door. We sat at a table mostly populated by a group of women from Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho, trading names that none of us will remember. The staff brought around little sandwiches, desserts, and scones in addition to the tea, and we rolled out of there feeling quite full. Most of the desserts were more European in nature, rather blah and not too sweet, but the scones were excellent. Unfortunately, they were brought out last so we already had quite a bit by the time they came around.
We watched some dance lessons and a few other activities and then it was time for dinner, this time at a more reasonable 5pm. This was a formal dinner so we donned the formal wear and headed to the Symphony Dining Room on Deck 5. Our table mates were a couple who were married 64 years and another younger couple who were Mormon. Both couples had been on numerous cruises so we plied them for tips from the experts.
I was already full before dinner and then piled an appetizer, grilled salmon, and a mousse dessert on top of that. It seems like we have been eating continuously all day long.
We got out of there just in time to quick change back into comfortable clothing and go to the theatrical show, featuring an orchestra and several singers. Very well done but our seating position was rather awful. Situated way in the back which was sub-optimal anyway, and we were directly behind a very large woman with very large hair. But we did enjoy the show. I finally got a picture as we were leaving during the curtain call.
A few pictures from today:
The “infinity corridor”; the hallway to our cabin. We get a lot of steps in each day.
View of Deck 16. We walk here a lot as it is outside and in the sun.
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