First Sea Day, cruise 3

The ship has been rocking ever since we left Princess Cays. Not enough to make anyone sick or to keep a person from sleeping but enough that you do know you are on a ship.

We spent a very relaxing morning. Had breakfast in our room and the red berries were back. YUMM

Then mid morning we went to the International Café for a special coffee. I checked out the special sale and bought nothing. We watched the vegetable carving and got lots of pictures. For lunch we just had some fruit in our room.

Captain Nash disembarked in Fort Lauderdale and we have a new captain. His name is Captain Martin Stenzel. He was born in Scotland and currently lives in Boulder Colorado. Everyday at noon they do a little report on the progress of the cruise. Usually it is quite brief and could be done by one of the officers. But Captain Stenzel does the report himself. He gives us a lot of detail and also educates us a little. Today he defined a league and a chain and a nautical mile and a knot. It is really quite nice and we find ourselves looking forward to the report and wondering what he will tell us today.

I spent some time going around the ship to take pictures for my photobook.

 After lunch we went to the Cruise Critic get together. It was a small group but it was very nice. We did a lot of visiting. Then Ken and I came back to the room. Ken got some sun and I went out to play champagne hoopla. It is a game where you are given 3 small rings and if you are successful in tossing the ring so it hoops a bottle of champagne you get to keep the bottle. There were 3 rings and 3 bottles. I knocked the bottle over but I didn’t hoop it and I couldn’t convince the gal that I should be allowed to keep it.

This was formal night so we had canapés delivered to our room. It was the Captain’s welcome aboard party complete with the champagne waterfall.

We got new table mates tonight and they seem very nice. One couple is from Kingston, Ontario ( Keith and Marion) and one is from Indiana, (John and Diana). We were so surprised to see that Marion was wearing an X ring. It turns out she is from Canso, Nova Scotia and she graduated from the Teachers College. We certainly had fun swapping stories about the college and JP Mac Carthy.

After dinner we went to Explores to see Christopher James again. We went early to get a good seat. He was just as good the second time. After that we called it a night.

Tomorrow we are back in Saint Thomas.