Post # 13 Day 2&3 At Sea September 19-20, 2015

   We have fallen into the sea routine where it is about the same every day. Both of us now have the cold that is going around the ship. It makes it hard to do things. The few meds we have keep the sore throats at bay but we are dozy all day. We have turned back the clock the last 2 night but the extra sleep doesn't seem to help.

    Yesterday we had the hard zumba session followed shortly thereafter with line dancing. We started with Move Like Jagger and did about 4 others. Easy but at least different. We did go to cute lecture on dogs and cats as part of the enrichment series. It was cute. Then in the afternoon we sat in on a talk with some singers and dancers . They talked about how they started and what it is like to do those big production shows. We have heard most of it before. An afternoon in cabin movie was a time to rest. This ship has a interactive TV system when you can watch things when you want rather than when they are aired. We also had the Elite Captain 's Circle party. There are about 500 elite members out of 3500 on this cruise.

     At dinner the Maitre-D' Restaurant had some shrimp, calamare, scallops and fish sent over. We had a problem with a charge for wine on our account and I simply mentioned it to our waiter a few night ago. He passed the info on and that is how the Maitre D' became involved. There was so much that we did not need to order dinner. Finally we heard a singer in the theatre. However, I slept through most of it.

Today we started with Steph and zumba. She had some good tunes to go with the routines. Proud Mary, Blurred Line, Shake it and Fireball. Good line dance stuff. It was a good session. Line dance was a total waste of time. The person who did it repeated most of what we had done the last few days. In addition he played 3 “Latin” songs, but did not bother to teach them. He called the last tone a challenged dance which apparently means figure it out. It was a very fast song. Everyone was lost except him. Judy called him out about it after the session and he said it was a challenge dance for those who could pick it up. This guy was totally useless.

     We lunched in the dinning room and then rested until evening. They do not seem to have many activities if you do not want to go to bingo or do some Lotus Spa thing. We chose to rest some more as we try to get over our colds.

     I am still trying to find if my 2 other photos are on this ship. We found the Great Wall of

Great Wall P|hoto Deck 8

China easily because we knew where to work but there are photos on every deck in a lot of different places. Captain Circle host could not help – said nobody knew what photos were framed even at the main office. However he did say he had a list on the Royal. If there here, I am determined to find them.

  The canceled their biggest production show tonight because the ship is rocking. People are complaining about the crashing of waves causing noise but we are in the forward part of the ship and did not hear it. This is a large ship and other than a bit of a roll, it is fairly calm. Dinner was good again and there was a show but we decided to skip it. Seems the more we sleep, the tireder we get.