Where We Spend A Day At Sea That Coincidentally Is Also Christmas, Which Explains Why Everybody Is Wearing Their Ugly Christmas Sweaters
What can I say about days-at-sea? Not much. Not much happens.
We slept a little later (but not late enough to miss breakfast – that’s a major no-no on cruise ships. Cruise Rule #1: NEVER. MISS. A. MEAL.)
Even though we thought *we* were late, the restaurant was empty. The servers were stumbling over each other to take care of the few people there. People started to show up in the restaurant a few minutes before we were ready to leave. SO many Christmas sweaters, or red shirts, and/or Santa hats. Oh right. It is December 25.
After breakfast, I washed my hair (always a bit of a production) and Andy went to run around deck 2 (4 laps = 1 mile) I hung out in the room reading my book until he came back.
And then it was time for lunch. Cruise rule #2: PLAN YOUR DAY AROUND MEALS.
Seriously, folks, this is about as exciting as it gets for us at sea.
After lunch, we scouted out a place to sit outside in the shade where I could work on my blog. Andy recommended the stern area on deck 2. When we went to check it out, it was perfect. Nobody was there. There were tables, chairs, and couches. The view off the stern was stunning – the water was a deep indigo blue, and the sky was a different blue, but just as clear and sharp. If there’s a happy place for me on this ship, this was it.
We were there for the entire afternoon. The big challenge – which devices have the wifi. We can only have 2 devices per room on the wifi at the same time. This requires us to keep swapping the wifi between devices. For that afternoon, the two devices were my iPad and Andy’s computer.
We wrapped things up around 6:00, to go to the last celebration of Hanukkah. A small crowd, but it was still nice.
At 7:00, we went to the “dome” for a movie – “Journey To Space”. The theater was a small planetarium up on Deck 8. To get there, there’s a glass staircase from the Explorer Lounge on Deck 7. If there’s an elevator to get to the dome, it’s a well kept secret. Once in the dome, we were coached to go as far back in the theater as possible – which was more steps. The movie itself was “ok” – but since it was projected on the ceiling, the motion was just a bit much for me.
Then off to dinner (see Cruise Rule #2).
We closed out the day by watching the movie “Bros” on the room TV. Excellent movie
Gee. Four days of this.
Tomorrow: Wellington
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