Losing October 17, and changing the date on my iPhone totally disabled my ability to write and save blog posts on the BlogTouch app…and it took a day and night of thinking about it to figure out what was going on. I simultaneously began having issues logging into financial accounts and our Princess Captains Circle account. We
are pretty remote, WiFi has gotten even slower than usual, and I first believed that was the reason. But then I heard G streaming video last night and re-considered. It had to be something with the date change…
So when I opened my eyes this morning (Monday, October 19), I changed my iPhone clock back to my home time. That fixed it. I’m still perplexed as to why, but I can prepare posts again. My watch is not at all correct and this isn’t a viable long term solution (because it also puts my Apple Watch on our home time and there is no way to de-couple that), but it at least allows me to prepare and publish posts. Because you wouldn’t want to miss such a riveting account of our many days at sea. 😉
As a result, I’ll just say, when it came to our third day at sea: DITTO. It was nearly the same as the day before that and the day before that.
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| Our view at breakfast |
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| Same breakfast, every single day. Greek yogurt, fruit and bran flakes. Boring but so good |
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| The sea was so smooth today. I’ve only seen it like this one time before, and that was, interestingly, in this same part of the Pacific. Is it an equator thing? I’m not sure. |
One minor difference is that, I guess because it was Sunday (or maybe because of the time change, it’s hard to know), they had a special brunch menu in the Botticelli Dining Room at lunch yesterday. Unfortunately, I wasn’t hungry and chose to instead use that time to practice ukulele in the cabin since G did go to lunch. However, he didn’t take pics of the menu. I will try to get some today.
Ukulele is creating stress. I don’t believe it’s supposed to do that. But I’ve found my person to stand by in the Hawaiian show next week. He sings and plays loudly and strongly…and with complete accuracy. He will cover for me. Australian Bill is my new hero.
I spent the rest of the afternoon following college game upsets best as I could online. My guys were also keeping me posted via text. I think it’s fair to say I missed being home with three screens to watch simultaneously. What a day in college football!
I was very hungry by dinner, which is a good feeling, and chose the fish entree. Seafood with peppers, onions and olives is one of my favorite dishes to make at home, sans this was excellent. I don’t order dessert most nights. The Lavazza coffee is so strong and tasty that I’m happy with that…but always make an exception for key lime pie and pavlova.
Tonight’s Princess Theater performance was production show British Invasion. Dated but still fun, and we get the same number of production shows in this long cruise that we would get on a shorter one, so we were looking forward to it.
We ended our evening with Silent Disco in the Vista-less Lounge (a favorite activity) and fell into bed. CD Duvaul told us tonight that we will be crossing the equator about 3am tomorrow morning and the Crossing the Line ceremony will be held at 2pm tomorrow. I’m not sure I’ll be attending (ukulele is at 1pm, and it’s not my first crossing) but will try to, at a minimum, get some pics.
We returned to our cabin tonight to find Crossing the Dateline certificates in our cabin. Nice. We’ll add them to our collection at home. Even if we didn’t know that we are in this part of the Pacific, intense heat and humidity give strong clues. We are so fortunate that our cabin thermostat keeps up with all we ask of it immediately and effectively. We rode an elevator tonight with a couple that can barely sleep in their cabin because it’s so hot. There is definitely an advantage to an inside cabin in this climate.
And, finally, my shorts returned from their road trip this morning. I knew they would eventually, and wasn’t worried (I packed plenty of clothing!). But I’m particularly glad for steward Robert. He was relentless in the pursuit. He’s a good person.
