Day 2
Highlights of the Day:
Room service
Running on the deck
Sitting at the pool
Meeting more people
Chilled pear soup
The Long Summary of My Day:
If room service is offered, you have to take advantage of it! Especially when it is included! So we decided to start our day with fresh squeezed oj, tea and fresh fruit - berries, grapefruit, mango, pineapple! I started my day by going to the top deck to run - yikes it is windy! Talk about resistance training! But you couldn't beat the view - water and waves everywhere you looked and blue skies.
We were asked to go to a welcome party where we went a few people who also booked through the same company - it was short and nice. Still a little unsure of the movement of the ship, we took some more sea calm pills but they make you extremely tired so it was back to the lounge chairs at the pool to sleep! As we were sitting their the clocks changed from 2:00pm to 3:00pm - they decided to change the clocks in the middle of the day so that you do not lose an hour of sleep. If you look at a map - we are sailing farther east so that we have to change the clocks forward that is at least until we get around the top part of south america so actually we will be gaining hours as well move westward!!! which can mean extra hours of sleep each night!! That is the benefit of circumnavigating the globe in a westward direction - always turning the clocks back!
We decided to go to the main dining room for lunch today and if you would like can get seated with anyone you would like, so therefore we were placed with this woman who was very knowledgable about traveling and she told us stories about when she worked for the red cross over sees. At lunch, they had chilled pear soup and macaroni and cheese!
Another relaxing day - still trying to find our way around the ship! It is very easy to get lost, especially when it trying to find your room. There is also many things that I still am finding - the Kings Room (although I don't know what that is), new places to sit and relax or read, as well as more places to eat! My mom decides to go watch the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love and I decide to go to the gym. The gym is nice with all the standard equipment, treadmills and ellipticals line the windows to give you an view of the water or you can watch the tv mounted in front of you!
Just by luck we meet a couple of other people I have been talking with over cruise critic. Everyone is so very nice and they all have a wealth of information. By accident we met Gloria at the safety meeting and I was talking about my camera and she introduced us to her husband, Brad, who knows alot about cameras, cruising, and pretty much everything else you want to know! We actually ran into them again at the pool later in the day, and they introduced us to Pauline and Mike, also very experienced world cruisers. These people know all the tricks - such as bringing non damaging hooks to hang on the wall to hold there coats and other items, and here I thought I was good with my shoe organizer! I also finally got to meet Sondra! Binder in hand, she said we had to see her room in which she somehow managed to unpack 24 suitcases plus about 20 cases of pop and water - I think she has everything, including a bowling ball!
We had another very nice dinner and the painting experts where seated at our table, so they informed us about all the different things they do on board. There was a band playing for the entertainment for the night, but we decided to skip it. When we got back to our room, a towel made sting-ray greeted us!
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