At Sea Day 2 of 7

    We are still moving along at around 20 knots. Weather is cloudy but the sea remains moderate and the sailing is very smooth. The ship activities continues to follow the same pattern with most big activities in the morning with a rather light afternoon. We continue to meet new people but it seems than we never see them again.

     After the time change last night, we were up a little later this morning but still had time for a muffin and coffee for me and a yogurt at the international cafe in the Atrium.

There was only 1 Zumba fitness class this morning. Today we had Theo one of the cruise staff as the instructor. There are 4 on this ship. A few years ago they had trouble putting 1 one the ship. It was a good work out, probably one of the best so far. I headed to the lecture on the Model A Ford and the development of the flathead 8. The lecturer is a former mechanic (born in 1939) so has first hand knowledge of what it was like to work on cars from 50 years ago. Judy did a promenade walk and then came in for the talk on Yellowstone and the floods of lave. Again most of what was in the talk I was aware of although he did fill in many small details.

    We wanted to go to the pub lunch today but the venue is small and the line was long. We did not want to wait for 45 minutes to get a seat. We opted instead to go the Caribe Cafe where the theme today was Mexican. With a lesser choice it is easier to keep the pile of food down. That did not prevent us from having more than one (hint) chirros. Cha Cha lessons followed. That is one of the easier dances because we do many cha chas in line dancers so we were able to go through the steps easily. A deck walk followed the lesson.

I sent a note to the cruise director this morning asking him to schedule an unsupervised line dance session. There seems to be a lot of dancers (a lot of passengers!!!) on the cruise. We have done this on previous cruises. At least we can do something a bit different!

      We had the Captain's Circle grape wine tasting this afternoon. It is one of the perks of being elite level. I did notice that they have added a 3^rd level of wine tasting on the ships. I think it is around $40 per person. The wines used are the highest priced ones on the ship. We use to get a free shot glass at the tasting but that is just one of things that we have noticed over the last few cruises. All the wines in this wine tasting were in the $30-$40 area. We did find 2 wines that we liked and probably will order with our wine package.

   

In The Theatre

We headed off to the 7 pm show early enough to get a good seat. About a half hour before the show, most of the seats are filled. Livewire was the act, a duo that played guitar and the electric violin. They specialize in Celtic songs and it was a very good show. We have found that on this ship very few people applause for the acts. By the time the last note is played half the audience is getting up and going. I guess that they want to get out of the parking lot quickly! People were lined up through the smoky casino and were 45 minutes early for the next show.

Balloon Drop

In The Pit

   Dinner followed the show. |The dessert tonight was cherries jubilee – very good. They had the Princess 50^th Anniversary Balloon drop in the Atrium but by the time we finished dinner, all the balloons had been broken.