Day 2

Is there anything better than a bleeding piece of prime rib with a baked potato soaking up the carnage? Karin certainly couldn’t think of anything at to top it during our dinner tonight! Andrew had lobster tail and jumbo tiger prawns – all delicious. But back to the beginning…

Today was a sea day – which loosely translates in to “do as little as possible”. Despite that, we were both up by 5 am. Karin hit the gym for about an hour. Then we enjoyed coffee and fruit on our balcony compliments of room service. After breakfast we showered and headed off to “The Jungle”, which is a theme “hallway” with tables and windows. It’s was still cool this morning (68 F at 11 am) so with the breeze it was too chilly to be on deck. Karin read and Andrew played on the computer. Lunch at noon at the buffet – today’s theme was “Mexico”. The buffet is plentiful and quality is good, though not gourmet. Rest assured that hunger is not something anyone should fear while on a cruise ship. During lunch we listened to a live Caribbean-style band make up new words to Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” to the melody of a steel drum.

After lunch Karin resumed her “book” (thanks to Kindle and iTouch for lightening our suitcases) and Andrew had a nap. Before we knew it, it was time to get decked out for the first formal night of the sailing. Since we opened with a description of our experience at dinner, we’ll not spend more time on it here. After dinner we each lost $10 in the penny slots before headed off to the game room for a less expensive, though equally rousing, round of “Battleship” (Andrew won). Now we’re in the piano bar listening to a fairly good rendition of “Bennie and the Jets”, preceded by “She’s Always a Woman to Me”. It would not, after all, be a piano bar without hearing Elton & Billy!

Our goal is to make it to the “adults only” comedian at midnight. Sadly, that is a good 4 hours past our normal bedtime and still more than 2 hours from now. Wish us luck!