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.
9 responses to “What A Wakeup!”
nice sunrise, where are you
We are on our way to Salvador, Brazil from Cape Verde (off the West coast of Africa near Senegal). We have 4 days at sea and during that time we will be crossing the equator. Thanks for asking! Getting any snow blower action?
You’re missing out on very cold weather early this week. Then in the 30’s and 40’s for today and Friday. Is everyone feeling better now?
Everyone is better – thank goodness. We are now about 5 degrees North of the equator. The temperature is just below 80 degrees – sky is cloudy. Kelsey and Jan have gone to check out the next World Cruise game and report back to me. After that we have to surrender our passports to the ship’s crew. Brazil and Argentina have a rule about passports that requires this. I’m going to ask for more information when we part with them. Thanks for following.
That sounds weird. Let us know what that is all about.
They took the passports and gave us receipts by cabin number. If we wanted they would make a photocopy we could carry with us. Since we will be on MSC excursions during our stays in both Rio and Buenos Aires, shouldn’t need the actual passports. Didn’t really get an answer why holding them is needed but out tablemates said the same thing happened to them when they were in Rio last year. Go figure!
Beautiful sunrise picture! Enjoying seeing the ship. It looks big and over 3,000 passengers interesting
If not Seaweed could it be floating garbage? Curious if you discovered floating “pollution” somewhere along your trip.
safe sailing.
It does look like plant tops but I can’t see beneath the water to determine what is below those tops. Doesn’t look like garbage. On Mindelo our guide talked about the garbage that floats to their shores – primarily from Africa. In addition to all the plastic, the sad thing is that they regularly find boats filled with dead humans who were trying to make their way from Mauritania to the Canary Islands. The Atlantic current in that area is strong and pushes many of the boats off course – they run out of food and water an expire before they reach land.