This will be very quick tonight. It is 10pm and the alarm is set for 5:30am tomorrow, as we arrive in our first port of call, Benoa, in Bali, Indonesia. This is our only stop in Benoa, in fact, our only stop in Indonesia this season, it is a tender port, and we arrive at 7am. All good reasons to be up and out early.
We sure weren’t up and out early today. I don’t know what it is: this cabin, which is quiet as a tomb; these beds, which are as comfortable as any we’ve ever slept on; the sea, which has been like bath water; and/or a combination of jet lag and exhaustion, but I had predicted we would crash on these first two days at sea, and that’s exactly what we’ve done.
So, I have nothing particularly blog-worthy to report. We had lunch in the International Dining Room (calamari breaded without milk especially for me!), sat in padded loungers on the Promenade Deck most of the afternoon, had dinner in the Vivaldi Dining Room (cioppino!), chatted too long with fellow guests and didn’t get seats for tonight’s first Princess Theater show (acrobats, so that was fine by us), and instead listened to guitarist Danilo in Crooners and then the duo in the Wheelhouse.
Not exactly riveting reading, but some days are like that. Sometimes, two days in a row are like that. The good news is that we finally feel caught up on rest (actually, G could have said that last night but I needed another day). And it isn’t like we have a grueling schedule ahead of us. After tomorrow in port we have two more sea days. I guess I’m not disappointed this run down to Bali will only happen once for us. Now that we’re no longer sleep deprived, that many sea days might start to feel confining.
Oh, I can report on the weather before I close for the evening. We were 86F today with frequent fast moving rain showers. We passed the small islands of Indonesia all day long, and freighter traffic, though light, is fairly constant. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for heavy rain in the morning and late afternoon, with a more settled period in between. We knew this was the rainy season in Southeast Asia, and are not surprised.