Day 14: At Sea

We had a very laid back day today, so I don’t have much to report. While G left the cabin before I did this morning (and may have gotten breakfast somewhere). I didn’t get moving until breakfast was nearly done being served, so I just waited for lunch in the buffet (soup, of course, beef bouillon with add ins this time and it’s finally warm enough for watermelon again). We sat and chatted with people until I returned to the cabin to take care of some administrative things that have slipped recently. For someone who is usually on top of these things to a disturbing degree, I’ve had quite the personality change on this cruise. 

Today’s down time also allowed me take stock of how much time is remaining on this cruise. As much as I’ve enjoyed it, I will be ready to go home when the time comes. My upcoming surgery, and the several appointments leading up to it, weigh heavily on me when I have too much time to think them (like today). 

While I was in the cabin, I took advantage of the time to make it through several of the destination lectures that have taken place all cruise (and which are available on the cabin TV). They’ve been quite good. 

We were invited to the 5:15pm Captains Circle party (there were three of them this cruise), and I dressed formally for the first time (the first formal night being on one of the sea days heading north from San Francisco when I was a little green). There were supposed to be four formal nights on this length of cruise, but we’re only having three of them, and they are unevenly formal (so don’t stress about it). 

I did take note of the MTG cutoff of the top 40 most traveled guests onboard for this cruise:  1039 days. Crazy. That’s like it is on a world cruise. Most traveled guests:

#1-2318 days

#2-1829 days

#3-1718 days

We were in the “sister-in-law bridesmaid” 5th place position with 1701 days. 

We missed dinner in Michelangelo because of the party, but instead went directly to the Princess Theater for tonight’s production show, Stardust (which is seriously past its sell-by date, but a production show is a production show). Once again it was performed at 4:30pm, 7:30pm and 9:30pm 👍 and was only 30 minutes long 👎.

We finally made it to dinner after the show, in the DaVinci Dining Room. We don’t usually eat at 8:30pm but, if we did, we could have our choice of tables for two every night. It was definitely wide open at that time. We skipped dessert and were out of there before 9pm. 

There was a lot going on around the ship, but we continued the day’s lazy feeling by returning to the cabin and our newly returned laundry (another 24 hour turnaround. I’m in awe). G is streaming video and I’ll be reading a book as soon as this post is published. 

Tomorrow…maybe…a cell signal and adding pics to the past couple of posts.