Yes, I am feeling guilty about not blogging. There have not been any truly blog-worthy moments that I can remember, which is not to say that those events have not happened, I just keep forgetting about them.
So in no particular order:
- We won musical Bingo! Me, the one who has no musical ability nor the memory for songs. Our prizes were the New! Rubber coasters with the ship name. Yeah, people fought over trivia answers so much that apparently corporate decided to cheapen the prizes from $1.95 down to 99 cents. Still, a win is a win.
- Have I mentioned how much I love this ship? Perfect size (1950 passengers, 1000 crew) and never feels crowded. There is a line for anytime dining when we leave the dining room around 7:00 each night, but that has never impacted us with our traditional set time. Nothing else requires advance planning. One can find seats in the theater 5 minutes before a production show, there is always a seat in Horizon Court buffet, there are plenty of chairs and sofas along the windows in the public hallways....yep, we love this ship enough that we checked out the next couple of year’s itineraries to see what we may want to do. Answers are Alaska in the summer, Panama in the winter, and a Circle South America 60 day trip in February. The Island, (which used to be a twin sister ship until they added 50 cabins across the back) likely still feels much the same and it does the same itineraries except its 60 day trip is in the fall and is a Pacific Rim circle from Alaska to China, Japan, Vietnam and Hawaii.
- Yesterday we were in our first port, Puerto Vallarta. We didn’t do much, although Pam, Gene and Jackie went whale watching in a Zodiac boat and saw lots of humpback whales. Tom and I went down the boardwalk and met up with our Corrales neighbors who happened to be on a week long vacation in PV. Pacifico beers, homemade Pico de Gallo (I would have eaten that with a spoon it was so good), and chicken fajitas for four of us totaled $22. I can see why so many folks like to winter there.
- Today we hit the second of the many $10 Sales at Sea. I bought two Christams ornaments, a manta ray and a starfish. Congratulate me on not purchasing the purses, scarves, tee shirts and hats.
- The sea air and a few restless (knee) nights have caught up with me. I fell asleep somewhere around the third quarter of the Alabama-Georgia game and did not arise until about 9:30 this morning, which is about 10 or 11 hours of sleep, which I must have really needed. We have a marathon night planned this evening; dinner, then the Movie Under the Stars, then the production show Encore which is by all accounts is supposed to be a really fantastic new production show. Maybe I better go rest up. 😁
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