Sarah was due to write the blog today, but she’s feeling somewhat under the weather so Alan is doing it instead. If she can pull her head away from the toilet bowl at some point, she may be able to add a comment or two in red. Sea days are particularly uneventful, so hopefully I’ll be able to remember what we got up to. No toilet bowl, yet, but the bed is my best friend right now.
The morning began like any other since we’d been on the water. The weather was sunny and warm as we made our way down to breakfast.
Later in the morning, the fog had started to descend over the sea and visibility was becoming quite poor. The wind had begun to blow, although not very strong.
Sarah and I went to our daily trivia competition, although we couldn’t match the heights of yesterday and were back to being complete dumbasses today. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow!
Lunch came and went in The Colonnade. Nothing spectacular, just more shrimp cocktails for me, along with plenty of other yummy stuff.
We were looking for something to do in the afternoon. The pool water was too cold for me to contemplate a swim (Sarah would have gone for a dip), so instead we went down to the games room to see if there was something there we might like to play. Unfortunately, there was a bridge competition going on in there, so we couldn’t get in to access the board games.
By now we were rather bored. We wandered around the ship looking for something to do, but finally decided to return to our room and watch a movie. Within 20 minutes of laying down on the bed and watching something, someone had fallen asleep. So we had a nap. Yes, Alan, you had fallen asleep, drooling on my pillow.
We had our usual dinner in The Restaurant, at our table by the window. Not that you can see much out there at night anyway. Our main courses were bigger than usual last night. And yummy as always. Dessert was so scrumptious. We’re so spoiled in there.
After dinner, we walked out onto the pool deck. The wind was blowing very strongly by now, and the temperature had dropped greatly. The Patio Bar and Grill were just packing up for the night. Apparently 16 people had eaten dinner out there in the cold and wet. I got some orange sorbet to bring back to our room.
At 9.30 we went down to The Club on deck 5 to listen to the singer and pianist. There were no more than about 10 people in there. Everyone must have been staying in their cabins tonight.
We then went up to the Observation Bar for late night open mic joke night. This is only done once per cruise, so we wanted to check it out. There weren’t too many people up there either, but a few guests took the microphone to tell jokes. John, the cruise director, asked if any of us Australians had a joke, so I got up there and told one. It got some laughs, although they may have been pity laughs.
We retired to our room to get some sleep. By now, the wind was howling and the ship was being thrown around. Walking in a straight line is impossible and Sarah was worried that she may fall out of bed. It’s amazing what a difference 24 hours can make.
Tomorrow is another sea day and I suspect Sarah may spend the day in bed. Good idea. No photos today sorry. We really didn’t have anything to take photos of. We’ll try to find something interesting for the blog tomorrow.
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