somewhere on the rocky Atlantic

Time change

Well somehow I got it wrong. Woke up and got ready and headed down to cabaret Lounge for interview with some of the staff. The dancers were practicing some routines. I wasn’t the only one there but after many attempts to get onto the internet (no guarantee on a ship), it dawned on me something was wrong. I asked one of the crew members who told me the time and I was an hour earlier than my devices showed. Perhaps I turned the clocks the wrong way. However, the elevators still have the old time.

Have no problem with the time changes where we gain an hour. It gives me more leeway in the morning but some folks hate going east to west as they are awake at 2 am. Ed and I hate going west to east as you continually lose time. I guess it’s all about biology.

Breakfast

So I called Ed to tell him I’d meet him at Sabatini’s for breakfast, something I rarely do. On the way through the library, I met Sam and invited him to join us. We had a nice visit over breakfast.

Interview with staff

It is interesting to find out about the behind the scenes glitches that occur and which are seamless for those of us who are passengers. Such as the difficulty getting into port in Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, and the difficulties with Indian and Singapore clearing the ship.

Be careful what you say

Ramona and I have been chuckling about the “Santa Fe chili” which is made with chicken and white beans. Santa Fe Chili would be made with beef or pork and definitely not white beans. We thought no more o fit and it wasn’t a complaint.

Last night Ed and I got an apology from the chef with a plate of cookies. We had no idea what this was about. But we think it might have been the discussion about the Santa Fe chili so we discussed it with some of the culinary staff and explained that it wasn’t  complaint.  So we’ll be much more careful about what we say.

World Cruisers photo take two

This time they turned the ship around and I can’t imagine everyone who wanted to be in the photo was not in it. The photo manager again climbed high on the ship in a very precarious location and despite wind and a rocky ship in the seas, got several shots. Just wow.

Hidden Figures

This movie about the “computers” the brilliant black women who did the computations for the NASA launch of John Glenn was shown in the lounge. It is a movie worth seeing. Brought tears to my eyes.

Production show

Again they do a fantastic job with great singing and terrific dancing. Because the ship is pitching so much, they eliminated some of the lifts but I couldn’t tell where they were eliminated. They do such a good job.

70s music trivia

Randy and Frances invited us to join them. We were all complaining as it was all disco music. We were all in school or raising kids, not going to discos. Still we came in one point behind the winners. We were just amazed we did that well! I knew two of them because of my kids playing the music before they left for school each morning. Pretty much Frances knew all the rest.

We have been warned that we are going to have a lot of pitching and yawing of the ship. I was going down the hallway this evening and the ship pitched to one side. The room steward was cleaning a room and the door was open. I came close to flying right through that room and over the balcony.