I wrote yesterday’s entry early in order to get the public portion of it online before we lost internet access when leaving Roatan. So this will have a bit of yesterday’s leftovers.
We steamed out of Roatan at just after 3:30 yesterday. I would have thought we could stay a bit longer to allow 3500 passengers to spend more time and money in Roatan, but, what do I know. The day was still far from over when our two-day confinement on the ship began. From here it’s sailing back north to Galveston, arriving at 7am on Sunday morning. So now we are a captive audience for that time, no more doing things on our own. There are a lot of activities on board, however, and we will avail ourselves of those.
We were scheduled for a sit down dinner at 5pm, but nothing on the menu really jumped out at us, so we cancelled our reservations and had dinner in the buffet instead. It was a lot faster than a sit-down dinner. We walked around on the top deck for a while, struggling to stay upright because of the very brisk wind that was blowing. Still a warm day so it was nice to be outside.
We spent some time in the hot tub, watching Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on the big jumbotron. One could get used to this. But I suppose that’s what a cruise is all about. Not having to make meals, not having to make the bed. Not having to pick up after yourself. Having ice cream after every meal. We’ve talked to people who do this regularly, sometimes taking multiple cruises back to back, even doing remote work from the ship. I’m not sure I could do that. I will probably be going stir-crazy by tomorrow.
Alex Yost was playing in the theater at 9pm. Another talented performer but he talked so fast that it was hard to get what he was saying.
Since we had no shore excursions today, we slept in this morning. Well, one of us slept in this morning. I was up at 6am and walked the decks for a while, enjoying the sunrise and warmth, in spite of the wind. Since we now had time on our hands, we went down to the sit-down breakfast and enjoyed a more leisurely pace from the normal pandemonium of the buffet. Seems like we always get seated with seasoned cruisers and a favorite topic is various cruise lines and destinations. We’re such newbies.
We did a lot of walking today. The upper deck has a walking track and we did many laps. The wind is still blowing at 25 knots, and, combined with our forward speed of 15 knots (about 19 miles per hour), it makes for quite a gale when walking in the forward direction. At the end of the day, my phone logged 21,300 steps, quite a bit more than usual.
Dinner was their gala dinner, requiring formal wear and serving surf ’n turf, a combination of beef tenderloin and lobster tail. I’m not much of a lobster person, so I traded with another person at our table. When the plates arrived, we swapped tenderloin for lobster tail, much to the consternation of the waiter, who came around with butter for the lobster tail and found two tenderloins on my plate. This particular waiter is a weak point in this entire journey. He’s just slow. We get left holding our menus until nearly everyone is halfway through their appetizers, and we are among the last to leave the dining room. It has been a scramble to make it to the 7:00 show in the theater on the other end of the ship. Today was no exception. We ended up finding single seats a few rows apart, but we did see the show.
The show at 7pm was The Mighty Quinn, a street performer turned comedian from Canada who was supposed to perform last night but all his luggage was lost on his Air Canada flight, including his tall unicycle. Even without his unicycle, he was quite entertaining.
The show let out in time to see the last half of the 2025 movie Superman on the jumbotron. We watched it from the hot tub.
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