Day 4 – Rough Cruising

After yesterday’s complaining from Alan, I decided I better write the blog today. I’m sure he’ll have a few choice words to say in Red.

The ride though the night got a little rougher and a few times I thought I might fall out of bed.  Thankfully that didn’t occur. I’m sure it will happen sooner or later, given how clumsy Sarah is.

We were up reasonably early this morning, before 8am, and were greeted with another warm, humid and partly sunny day.  The calm seas we had experienced the day before were replaced with something a little more choppy which makes walking seem like a new art form.  Alan laughed at me at one stage for my walking style, only to shortly thereafter walk into a wall.  Now that was funny!! Well clearly I was mocking Sarah by walking into the wall.

Breakfast was so good yesterday, I decided to have it again, the strawberry pancakes.  They were perfect.

Alan decided to branch out and have the Swedish pancakes with lingonberries.  They turned out to be crepes with a very strange fruit jam.  The crepes were so good he ordered a second helping,  minus the lingonberries.

We met some more Australians at breakfast, who Dad had met on previous Seabourn cruises.  These guys, too, have been on the boat since Fort Lauderdale, which departed 5 January.  As much as I’m enjoying this (two days in) I can see that when it’s time to get off, I’ll be happy to do so.  I can’t imagine what you do on a boat for two months!

We returned to the cabin for a bit of R&R before we hit the trivia contest day 2.  Another up and down day, in which I contributed one answer (one each day now … that’s a good average), on some very hard questions. We managed to keep off the bottom of the table but I'm not sure how. With two days in a port starting tomorrow, we won’t have any trivia until back at sea so maybe we have some time to study up. Yeah, right! At least there were no Australian questions this time, so we didn’t have the chance to embarrass ourselves again.

After trivia we joined Dad on deck around the pool and had lunch.  Hamburgers today followed by some really lovely ice cream.  However, I quickly discovered that ice cream and choppy water doesn’t mix so I put on my acupressure wrist bands and had a lie down. It’s amazing how quickly they work.

Alan took himself off to the casino to try his luck at poker.  Unfortunately that luck wasn’t there.  They way they run the games is that there is a buy in (in this case $100) but the limit of the bets are $3 and $6 so bluffing is difficult because everyone plays every hand.  Also, all the other players were friends and spoke Spanish to each other so Alan thinks they conspired to get his money and he came back a little sad.  Poor Alan. Stupid boat poker! They don’t know how to run a proper tournament. Give me APL any time.

We were back to dinner in the main dining room tonight. I had lovely crab cakes for entree and Alan had a chowder.  We both had the veal tenderloin for main.  It was so good.  I chose the sugar free low fat dessert, not because I was trying to be good but the chocolate crepes sounded nice.  Alan had some silly chocolate cappuccino cake.  Why put coffee in a lovely chocolate cake?

We decided to miss the comedian tonight and try and get an early night.  Tomorrow we start our entrance into Ho Chi Minh City around 8am and that will be interesting.

Sorry for the lack of photos but the humidity is playing havoc with the camera. The room is so cool that every time we take the camera out, it fogs up.  I’ve had a read up tonight and once it has unfogged again, I will place it in a ziplock bag and hopefully it will acclimatise tomorrow whilst in the bag and when we take it out, it won’t fog up. Fingers crossed.

Sarah and I went for a swim for the first time today. We waited until about 5pm, when it wasn’t quite so sunny and hot, and we were the only people in the pool. The movement of the boat made it quite like a wave pool and swimming from one end to the other was quite a task at times. According to the pool thermometer the water temperature was 31 degrees. I don’t believe it. More like about 12!!!

We went in the spa after the pool. That was lovely and relaxing. The bar dude kept bringing us alcoholic drinks, which of course we knocked back.