Sea Day Today

 We are really feeling the ship’s movement this morning! We’re traveling at 20.3 knots, which is about 23 mph, apparently. I don’t feel any nausea, but it’s an odd feeling. I’m not sure we can follow our plan to exercise by walking around the top deck this morning. The wind is at 40 knots, and there aresix foot waves, so that may be part of the movement issue. 

We both napped yesterday, then sat on our balcony to watch our departure from Coco Cay. There was a smaller RC ship (Radiance) there, too, and not far away, a Norwegian Cruise ship (Epic) whose passengers went to an adjacent private island. Then we moved to the suites deck, with a bar, pool, and hot tub, for a Happy Hour drink. It was mostly empty, with folks getting ready for dinner, I guess. 

We enjoyed talking to a younger couple from Huntsville Alabama in the suites lounge before dinner. This is their first RC cruise, but they’ve done ten years on Carnival and said there’s no comparison. They’re gobsmacked at how nice everything is on this ship. 

For dinner, we each started with a lobster salad with pineapple and hearts of palm, delicious. Then Charlie also had a shrimp cocktail before our entrees, a crab and shrimp-crusted pollack over rice and bok choy, also plate-lickin’ good. All I could manage for dessert was one scoop of chocolate ice cream, but Charlie tried the dark chocolate cake and enjoyed it.  We will try to remember to take pics of the food!

Today is a sea day, en route to St. Thomas. Unfortunately, the excursion we’d booked there is cancelled, so we may just walk around and shop instead. Tonight we have two shows booked after dinner, Voices (singing and dancing) and the ice skating show. Wish us luck staying awake!

No photos yet today, but here’s one of the painting over the couch in our suite. Shall we try this pose?


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