Sea Day 3

We managed to sleep until after 5:00, despite moving into a new time zone. Our stateroom is very quiet, thank goodness. With no cabins across the hall, there aren't doors slamming or anything.

We were able to take our morning walk on the upper deck today, as we're definitely into a warmer area now.  I stopped walking long enough to get the required photo of Gigi, the 30 foot tall mascot of Anthem of the Seas.  

Here are the maps of our progress as of earlier today.  In his noon announcement, the captain told us we're now halfway to Hawaii.


While Charlie headed to the casino, I went to the Suites Lounge and sat with a woman who was knitting a baby blanket. I did my Duolingo, but we chatted a little. 

Then at 11:00, we had our tour of the bridge. Alas, our captain needs to take Tour Guide lessons from Captain Tony, the very personable one we had the last time we were on Anthem. Our captain stayed behind a barrier the whole time, as if he feared we'd planned a mutiny on the high seas. Look how far away he stayed!

He didn't show us any of the interesting things we learned about on our first tour. Here are some photos of the experience.

View of the bow -- note crew painting

Enormous windshield wiper!

View through the floor used when docking

Control area when docking

For lunch in Coastal Kitchen, I had serrano ham-wrapped dates that were delicious, followed by a very good spinach, roasted tomato, and grilled shrimp salad. Charlie had a Mediterranean wedge salad AND the spinach-shrimp salad.

Spinach and shrimp salad

Mediterranean wedge salad

We were able to spend time on the balcony in the afternoon, until a loud neighbor came out and proceeded to play music. Who DOES that?? 

After Happy Hour in the lounge, where one interesting fellow had another outfit -- this time for Halloween -- complete with leather chaps and a cowboy hat, we enjoyed another good meal in Coastal Kitchen. I tried the mushroom soup, which was excellent, and Charlie tried the lobster fritters, which he said were okay. He had the tuna over rice and bok choy and enjoyed it, and I chose the veal chop with potatoes and broccolini -- delish1 
Tuna

Veal chop

I'm finishing this post Friday morning, after another time change. We're now five hours behind Texas Time.  More tomorrow!


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  1. EleanorOctober 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM

    That photo of the captain is ridiculous! What’s up with multiple days of this cruise being Halloween?

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