Sea Days

I haven’t written much over the course of our sea days...as they are truly not all that exciting or interesting to read about. Now, to us, they are very relaxing, but exciting still is not part of the description. I wake up whenever, mosey down to the International Cafe for our Skinny Latte, maybe have breakfast, or skip it altogether if lunch is getting close. Tom usually gets up around 7 and heads out for his hour+ four mile walk, then a steam or sauna, then a hot tub soak, then he showers at the spa and returns around 9:30 or 10. By which time I am deciding whether it is a skip or eat breakfast day.

On these sea days, as I mentioned earlier, we change time at 11 -> 12 noon. So skipping breakfast is no big deal, as it becomes noon soon, and we can have lunch. Today, for example, was a skip breakfast day, and it is now just after 1 and I am beginning to think about a lunch. Then we do something onboard in the afternoon (watch a movie, play bingo or trivia, go to a lecture, meet with our friends, or just sit on the back patio and watch the ocean float by) and then it is time to get ready for dinner and the show after. Then we go to bed and pretty much repeat again the next day. Today we went to the ‘cooking’ demonstration, which ends up being a bit more of a comedy show than a real lecture, but we did come away with some great recipes, if not technique.

Today’s adventures were not much different than any other day, with the slight difference that it was not really a sit on the back patio kind of day. Last night we were warned it would be rather rocky overnight, extending into the morning. It has been cool temperatures also, with off and on rain showers. A few minutes ago we had one of those rain showers along with a big gust of wind that shoved us off course a little bit....I even got a picture of our wobbly trail...

And...today is the last of our eight sea days on this trip. Tomorrow we begin the first of five port days in a row. We will arrive in Gibraltar where we will be traveling into and to the top of the Rock. Fingers crossed for less rain.