Day 19 - At Sea

Day 19 – Tuesday 28^th January 2014 – At Sea

This morning’s session in the gym and the sauna was great. I move aft along deck 9 to the Lido and take my lemon tea sitting at the window, gazing out onto the Pacific Ocean.

The sun is bright and powerful glistening off the smooth flat astonishingly blue sea.  This is how it should be, as this is why this ocean was called Pacific, named by the earlier explorers as they sailed across the peaceful ocean.

The dance lesson today was the jive, all those memories, but now I am being shown how to do it properly, certainly enjoy getting into the swing of things.

This is followed by the choir practice, we are all going along very nicely, with praise starting to come in from all sides, and informed our live concert will take place in five days, but no one is panicking.

Back on deck 9, I am in an area where you can practice your golf swing.  In this heavily netted area, I whack away at the balls, they do not go very far, as they smack into a canvas awning about 5 metres (15 feet) away.  Your swing is a bit restricted as you either get tangled up the netting or clatter into the stanchions with your club.  It is ideal to practice your chipping, so I concentrated on that one.

Up on the next deck at the forward end, I am practicing bowling, there are two greens stretching the breadth of the ship where you can play carpet bowls.  This is great, as you have a fine view over the front of the ship and can make the excuse of the ship’s roll, as you a complete hash of it, a lot of fun.

It is informal dress tonight, and today’s cocktail is Mud Slide, a concoction of Vodka, Baileys and Kahula and very nice.

For dinner, tucked into prawns/rigotelli/bread and butter pudding, very good to see this on the menu.

The theatre was a little strange with an act by American Olympic Gymnast, who showed amazing feats of strength, while another American, Great Kaplan, a poor man’s Tommy Cooper, who would go down well at a children’s party but not on a cruise ship.

Ended the night in the Midships Bar, first time we had visited this one, for our cocktail night cap.  Off to bed early, as another port arrival in the morning.