At Sea to Shanghai

    We are into the second day of sailing and the weather has warmed and the seas are quite calm

Relaxing At Sea

again. This trip has been very smooth sailing for the most part. Yesterday the day was overcast, windy and cooler but we are fortunate again for the warmer temperatures. A walk around the deck today sees many people out sunbathing – including Judy. I have just finished downloading photos from the past days. Judy snaps away and never ever looks at them again.

   The schedule on this ship has been the poorest that we have

At Sea

seen in a long time. It seems that all they can schedule are trivia contests, spa specials, etc. Last night they had both newly boarded comedians on at the same time. The only things that we can get too are the rumba at 9 followed either line dancing (we went to an excellent port lecture on Nagasaki instead) followed by a ballroom lesson on the cha-cha. Actually we can do that dance quite well but that is because of the cha cha's that we do in line dancing.. There is not one thing on this afternoon that we want to do.

   Last night was the Captain Circle party. It was the last of a series. It seemed that there were fewer people there. We even chatted up the Captain for a bit other than saying hello and going on. There were so few people there that the waiters were taking drink orders! We did find out that there are only 175 Elite class on board.  Yea for free laundry.  Anyway, we did manage to make it to the 2 comedian shows. Judy likes the Australian and I thought the American (reminded me of Rodney

A Mine?

What Is It?

Dangerfield) was the best. Tonight we have an invitation to the
Art Director's wine and cheese party although it is open to everyone. Tomorrow we land in Shanghai quite late - 10 am so we will have a late sailing tomorrow night. We are on a tour with 4 hours of free time built in so we can do plenty of exploring. We have not scheduled anything for the next 2 ports after that or the first 2 of the next leg of the cruise.

    Finally we did see a strange bird on deck today. I managed the photo of it. Strange only in that it looked liked a shore line bird rather than an ocean flier.