Saturday, January 31, 2026

Day 32: At Sea

Days keep getting slower and slower for us. Actually, a large part of it is simply that we are spending so many hours each day outside on the open decks to enjoy the warmer temps as long as we have them. In fact, though G is still going to breakfast in the Botticelli Dining Room, I go to the fitness center to bike or walk and then meet up with him on the Terrace Deck where he continues to have coffee and I enjoy bird seed patties (if I’ve made the side trip to the International Cafe, which, sometimes, is just too far to go after I’ve used the treadmill😉), or cereal from the World Fresh Marketplace.

And then we move around the Terrace Deck trying to avoid the sun as much as possible, until the lunch buffet is set up and we enjoy that and then, at 1pm, go to Club Fusion for our ukulele lesson, followed by a rest in the cabin. And that is as exciting as our days have been since we left Hawaii. 

Through it all, both yesterday and today, we have been talking about future cruises and booking future cruises and second guessing future cruises we have booked. This is fairly routine stuff for us, to spend sea days making cruise plans, but today, when we started second guessing everything that is in place for next winter, I wondered why we even try to plan ahead. 

I skipped the Elite Lounge today, because I just wasn’t hungry, and, once again, dinner was a wild mixed greens salad made dinner-sized with some extra shrimp. That was scrumptious. I need to do more dinner salads. I noticed just last night that my pants are fitting differently, and not in a good way.  Nip it nip it nip it!



Tonight’s scheduled entertainment was production show Magic To Do, but around 5pm I was walking down Lido Deck to go to dinner when I saw one of the male dancers heading to the buffet wearing a track suit. I asked him why he wasn’t getting ready for the show and he said it hadn’t yet been announced but there were technical issues (again) preventing them from performing it tonight. And right then CD Nathan made an announcement to that effect and said we’d be seeing Erik Bryan in Let Me Be Frank instead. It was fun to see that after we had chatted with Erik a couple of nights ago. 


We’ve been skipping coffee and dessert after dinner to get to the show, but tonight went up to enjoy coffee on the Terrace Deck. It’s obviously our favorite place on the ship.