Wednesday – January 15, 225
Today is an at sea day. Not a lot to photograph so we will include some information about the ship today – Friday in photos. Will write the text of this post on Thursday but wanted you to have a view of today’s sunrise – it was beautiful! Here is a link to today’s photos.
Jan and I have been alternating breakfasts in the dining room and the buffet. I prefer the dining room because the food is made to order. The advantage of the buffet is the variety of the offerings. To each his own.
Kelsey joined us for breakfast in the buffet then we grabbed a table near the indoor pool. When it was time for the World Cruise Games, Kelsey and I went to the main pool area to join other Air team members. Today’s game was to determine which team could reach 4 points first. Each point was given for the team with the most members from a country whose name was picked out of a champagne bucket. Some of the country names had no team members present. When “United States” was called, our team had the highest number of members so we won a point. The game was tied at 3 points each for Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Last country called was Portugal – Water had 9 members and the other 3 teams only had 1 or 2 each – so Water won the competition.
We went to our cabin to cool down – it was hot standing in the sun during the World Cruise game. Looking out our balcony we would see groups of what might be seaweed floating on the water. The color was yellow-brown and it was in clumps. Couldn’t see beneath the surface to determine what it was so if you look at the photo and have a suggestion of what it might be, let us know.
Beginning today and continuing for the next couple days we will include photos taken on decks 5-15 to give you an idea what the ship has to offer and where those are located. Today’s photos include decks 5-7. These decks house the administrative offices, stores, many of the bars, both formal restaurants and the theatre.
In addition to photos around the ship, today’s photos include a few pictures from our evening meal. The tuna was delicious and had been purchased the day before from fishermen in Mindelo. When the head chef identified the orange fish I had photographed he told us how many pounds of tuna he had purchased – I think it was 32 complete fish but can’t recall the total weight. To feed 3,000+ passengers if a third of them ordered tuna would take quite a bit.
The entertainment for this evening was a person singing songs made popular by Elvis. His voice was similar and he did a good job of imitating Elvis – to the point of giving scarfs to women in the audience. He went into the audience for several of the songs. Most memorable was as he was singing “Suspicious Minds”. As he came to a lady to shake her hand, she took off her cruise card and placed the lanyard around his neck. He asked if that was her room key – she answered “Yes” – and he played with the implication of that for a while. His performance was entertaining.
Returning to our cabin and looking out the balcony the moon was bright again so I snapped a photo of the moon by itself and as its light glistened off the water and illuminated the night clouds. We changed time zones over the night of the 15th/16th so on Thursday we will be CST + 4 hours. We’ll be in that time zone at least as far as Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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