Thursday August 17 – “At Sea”

The day dawned overcast, and remained so all day. 

At some times the ship had to blast the horn regularly due to surface fog on the water. It rained for a while too.

large seagulls on a floating log

 After breakfast in the buffet, we went for a walk up on top, then down around the promenade deck for a while to get some exercise. Also going up and down stairs (we don’t use the lifts) is helping too.

indoor pool - roof can slide open if needed

chefs doing some fruit and vegetable carving and sculpture in the atrium

Our Scenic Tour Director, Laurel, organised for the group to dine together for lunch – it was very pleasant but a few didn’t show. As lunch was about to finish we all watched three dolphins surfing the bow wave and trying to keep up with the ship. Was great to watch them – so athletic!

We two (and many others we suspect!) had a snooze in the afternoon. It was nice to just laze around. At 4.30pm we went to trivia with a few others from the group. Our team got 10/20, so didn’t do all that brilliantly!

It is formal night tonight at the main restaurants so we dressed up a bit and joined another couple for dinner. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll do buffet only so that we eat a little less. We have been over-eating a bit!

Tonight clocks go back an hour. That’ll be good because we have an early start tomorrow for our shore excursion.