We enjoyed another typical day at sea, content in the knowledge that we have several more in the offing. The seas have picked up slightly; Captain Traverso said in his noon announcement that we would be seeing waves in the 2.5 meter range, which is nothing on a ship the size of the Regal Princess, but is still more than we’ve encountered to date. Today marked a first for us as we both pulled out shorts to wear, though I still teamed mine with a fleece jacket.
I also changed up breakfast today, opting for sourdough toast topped with avocado and egg along with the usual fresh fruit. It was one slice of toast too many, and kept me from eating lunch at all. Unfortunately/fortunately, our dinner planswere also disrupted (read on) and we didn’t dine until late tonight.
We attended CD Aaron’s Behind the Scenes talk in the Princess Theater at 11am, and then I had to just stay put in the cabin for a while. I brought my Kineon red light therapy with me (IYKYK) and am supposed to use it for an hour total each day, but I’ve actually successfully done that about three times since we left home. I need to be more faithful about it, starting today. It makes a huge difference for me. At 1pm we attended Angela Delgado Kelly’s lecture on Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the earth, which was fascinating, then squeezed in some additional hot tub time before getting cleaned up for the evening.
Tonight the first two of four Captains Circle parties were held in the Vista-less Lounge, and we attended both. We were honored to be this cruise’s Most Traveled Guests, with 1734 days, but the competition was fierce. I’m constantly teasing G that he is only the first most traveled on cruises he takes solo and that I’m bad luck, but I guess I have to stop saying that. He just received a $50 store credit on a Ruby Princess cruise he took in September for being #3, but so far we’ve seen the Sabatini’s breakfast benefit (the only one that really matters in our eyes) and a bottle of champagne. I’ll report here if that changes.
We were join by guests Brian and Christine who we discovered live near us. They’re on their first Princess cruise. We met them in the terminal in Southampton and have gotten together a couple of times on the ship. They took our same flight a day earlier than we did.
The days, for those interested:
1- 1734
2- 1716
3- 1644
There are 1014 Elites on this voyage. I was going to say that laundry was taking 48 hours, as our first submission did, but our second submission is now at 60 hours and counting and I’m down to two more pair of clean undies so I see a self launder in my day tomorrow if it’s not returned PDQ.
We listened to Nattany in the Wheelhouse and then returned for the second party at 6:30pm, then finally went to dinner at 7:30pm.
The Princess Theater entertainment tonight was piano entertainer Luis from the Wheelhouse accompanied by the Regal Princess show band, which we would have enjoyed, but the evening’s schedule was already a bit convoluted, so we continued on in that manner and went to the watercolors fountain show at 9:15pm. It’s nice for a once or twice a cruise kind of thing, but it does blow quite a bit, so stand back. Or wear a rain coat.
And with that we called it a night. Our plans for tomorrow in Ponta Delgado were in place, and then I cancelled them based on the weather forecast from two days ago. We’ll either be sorely disappointed or glad we did that…stay tuned to see which way this goes.
