One of the wonderful things about an inside room on a ship
is that it is dark. There are no windows
to let in a bit of light. The result, a
good night of sleep – super one for Ken and not a bad one for me though I was
up and down a bit. We didn’t actually
get up until 8:30 am. What bliss!!!!!
We enjoyed our breakfast up on the Lido deck on a covered
patio area that overlooked the dancing fountain and small pool. We could see the ocean on both sides of us
and the gorgeous blue sky overhead. A
gentle warm breeze made it a perfect spot.
As we were finishing we noticed Cliff and Nancy – one of the
couples we are sitting with for dinner—come and settle on lounges right close
to us so strolled over and enjoyed a chat with them before setting off to do a
bit of exploring. One goal was the
library to pick up the daily quiz game and Sudoko to do sometime during the
day. While checking out some future
cruise information our other table mates, Steve and Mary, stopped to chat with
us.
Eventually we worked our way up to the track on Deck 18
where we did a mile of fast walking while chatting and enjoying the view of the
Princess Cay – the ships private beaching area.
We had decided not to bother to go over as we could get all the sunning
and walking we wanted to do right on the ship and skip dealing with a tender.
Ken got me set up with the computer so I could type
the blogs in Word and later transfer them to the official site. Then he took off to go watch the movie, “
Jurassic World”. He so loves the
opportunity he has to see a bunch of movies while we are aboard a ship!! I’m sure this will be the first of many.
Ken returned from the movie watching near 3:00 and invited
me to join with him for a little snack
lunch in the Horizon Court. I got a small
salad and we sat out on the back deck where we could still see the Princess Cay
and watch the last of the tenders return and get raised in preparation for our
departure. It was relatively quiet up there and just a pleasant place to enjoy
the varying shades of the water and enjoy the little breeze.
He returned to the
room while I walked around for a bit on a couple of the levels just watching
all the activities taking place including a line dancing class in the
Piazza. I walked then to the little library
(way too small for this ship) and worked on a jigsaw puzzle that was sitting
out on the table while I waited for the crew member in charge of the book club
to arrive. I signed out the book “The
Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah that is a historical fiction taking place in
France during WWII. She said we’ll be
discussing it during one of the sea days at the end of our travels.
Afterwards I went to check out the Zumba class to see what
it was like and discovered it was a sort of like the one I’d been attending at
our son’s church so I stayed and participated only leaving when I had to
because of the time. It was nearing our
assigned dinner hour and I knew I needed to clean up as we were going to the
Piazza to listen to the pre dinner band
and even enjoy a dance.
Our waiter has already mastered all of our names and some of
the special touches we appreciate which made dinner even more of a
delight. My steak and Ken’s fish skewers
were fantastic as was the rest of the food and conversation again flowed as we
shared our days experiences and more travel stories.
Tonight we had two different possibilities for entertainment
and we were struggling to figure out how to do them both. We went up to the Vista Lounge only to
discover there were plenty of seats for the dancers Ye Olde Pub Night program
that had just gotten rolling so we were able to enjoy that and still get to the
Princess Theater and find a good seat for the Master Illusionist, David
Cats. He was positively fantastic!!!! And his showmanship only made it better with
lots of dramatic lighting along with comical relief thrown in. On our way back to our room we passed the
Princess Live studio and realized that the women’s string quartet would be
playing shortly so decided to attend that.
They are from Ukraine and had a fantastic assortment of music from the
classical to a bit of country. While
waiting for it to start I slipped off to one of the ship’s stores and found a
wonderful polo shirt for Ken with the pocket he always wants and the 50 year
anniversary logo on it.
The news paper for tomorrow had arrived at our room when we
returned so we took time to peruse it before settling down for the night.
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