Fifth Sea Day...

Monday, February 27. Blue sky, smooth seas. Day 55 of 128. 11 hours time difference between PST. 

Today was the warmest for some days. Clear blue, placid sea, a good day for reading or relaxing on the balcony. We had an earlier start to the day today for some reason. We turned in the forms they gave us last night for some of the upcoming African Ports at breakfast, then we were out walking before 8:00 am. It was a breath of fresh air to step out into the warm air. Only my darn toe acted up, a shoelace adjustment helped somewhat and we persevered. The deck-walkers were light today for some reason.

I think that a few people could be down with various maladies. Our neighbour was told to isolate for 24 hours with some slight stomach ailment. We met a friend of Fellette’s from Langley whose husband is sleeping in a public area, inside, because of a combination of seasick and claustrophobic feeling. Although with the amount of people on the ship there is bound to be people sick all the time. The number of sea days does seem to have a somewhat negative affect on many people. 

We attended a couple of talks today, one on Mauritius, coming up in a couple of days, the other on Reunion, two days after Mauritius. The other talk was given by an Australian gent on horses. We watched because there was nothing else of interest. In days past there would likely have been something slightly more stimulating than a horse story teller. Personal opinion. 

Fellette and I are quite at ease with the inactive sea days, knowing full well that we have some very active port days coming  up, soon! We have 10 Ship’s Shore Excursions in March plus who knows what we may do on the other six days in port where  we are without definite plans yet?

 

- Then, in April, it becomes very, very busy: There are 30 days in April, we are in Ports for 24 of those 30 days!!!

- The month of May is a piece of cake: 12 days total, three Ports and The Last Six Days at Sea!

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A bit of a Snow Dump at home, Our daughter and son-in-law's Hobby Farm got 10 inches of heavy wet snow with the power out for 19 hours. Fortunately his crucible full of molten glass was not damaged by the outage when restarting with solidified glass in the pot.

Relaxing Day...

Fellette is making use of the Sea Days by getting faster and better at crocheting.

The gate to our Daughter’s Hobby farm this morning. Thanks Snow Plow! [This was our previous home for 21 years.]