Sea Day Six...

Tuesday, February 28. One more sea day after today. Same blue sky, calm sea. 25 C. Now 12 hour time difference to West Coast Time.

I think that we will now consider this ship AHEAD of West Coast time. From there, home, it will depend upon the time of day whether we are in the same time zone. 

From West Coast Time, New York is 3 hours ahead, the UK is 8 hours ahead and this ship is now 12 hours ahead, and diminishing each time we move our clocks back. The frequency of clock changes will slow down when we leave Cape Town, March 15, and head basically North for 59 days. There will be some back and forward time changes as we bump our way north around the big hump in North Africa.

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We were up early again today and were doing our little morning stroll before 7:30. A different set of walkers at that time of the morning of course. We spent some time trying to spot flying fish for Fellette but no luck this morning. Back to our cabin for a bit of time on the balcony as the stewards finished doing our room.

I lost track of time this morning as I spent too much time working on my camera stand and accessory, ostensibly for taking pictures of Fellette and I together for a photo project that I am working on. A couple of glitches and I have it under control, I think!

The heavy dump of snow at home seems to have resolved itself without any issues with our family. Pleased to hear. Tomorrow is March 1 which means, at home, that winter may be over. Yes, we can still get some frost and snow, but garden time is pretty close to being at hand for those who push their luck a little and get some 'Early Planting' underway soon. On the other hand, we could have a ‘Very Wet Spring’.

All this has absolutely nothing to do with travel. But, these seven sea days allows my mind to go in many directions, and not all to do with travel.

I have taken a picture of the calendar for the month of March that the Cruise Company gave us. The days with pictures printed on them are Port Days. That means a relaxing day is out of the question, we are going to get out and around for sure. The days marked with a 'Red Letter T' are days we have tours booked.

If you have the time to look at our schedule, you will see that there are some sea days spaced very nicely in between tours. We have eight tours where we know what we will be doing. We also have eight ports where we will be doing something, but don’t know exactly what. That is the exciting and unknown that makes things interesting and sometimes downright exhausting: but  exciting we hope!

Last night on the ship they had what they call a Block Party, it takes place in the corridors. At 4:00 pm, a knock on your door, and a steward announces “Block Party, open your door”. You go out in the corridor with a wine glass and then staff, including the Captain [and his wife], and officers fill your wine glass. This goes on for an hour and then the early sitting goes to dinner and others go about their normal procedure. We joined with Jim and Gail for some time in their corridor and then in their room where Jim seems to have an endless supply of crackers and a selection of Pates!

Tonight we are going to The Pinnacle Restaurant for a special dinner put on by the Travel Firm we booked with this year. It’s a classy affair with, of course, all the wine one wants. As you may be able to tell, there are ample opportunities to drink on the ship, as a matter of fact it is encouraged by its availability.

Another Highly Relaxing Day At Sea…

Fellette spending some of her leisure time crocheting her third quilt. [The sewing kit on the table was made by Ozzie friend Lyn for Fellette on their recent visit to see us in November.]

A selfie. The result of my fiddling this morning trying to make it easy for us to have a picture of us together a bit easier to accomplish. This is for the  project I am working on .{Getting a haircut, including eyebrows this afternoon.}

The coming month of March. Sea Days are blank. Port days are shown, with which City/Country. The red T’s shows  days we have booked tours with the Cutler’s. It will be a busy month. Some actual travel stuff coming up! We will soon be cherishing these Sea Days methinks!