At Sea Day 5 of 7

Ready For The Party

    Today we had a bit if a break from the routine that we have been following. I think all the things that we have been doing is having an effect as we seem to need a full 8 hours of sleep and then some. In any case breakfast at the buffet was followed by the only Zumba class today which lasted about 45 minutes. I did go the the Navigation at sea lecture when they talk about the ship. It use to be done by a very junior officer who had a hard time communicating. Today they had a short video presentation showing the changes in navigation techniques. That was followed by a series of slides detailing how the bridge actually operates. The navigation has certainly changed plenty from the days of slide rulers and paper charts. Now it is all done electronically although they stiff carry a set of charts for the areas they will sail in. There was plenty of details about the ship and the construction, speeds, foods consumed every day (18 tons) fuel use etc. He took many questions at the end of the talk. He did mention that the person who was next show.medivaced yesterday was a senior employee of Princess. He is the senior procurer for the fleet. He had a small heart attack and then a large one. We were about 200 miles from the Azores when the helicopter met the ship.

       We went to Sabitini's for lunch. They run the restaurant as a pizza place with the same menu that we found on the Regal Princess last fall. They have about 6 pizzas to choose from and you can add things if you want. They did not have the soups and salads as on the Regal. We were about the first in line which was nice for a change. We say with a very nice couple from Northern California and had a wonderful time. We finished early enough to get to the Salsa dance lesson followed quickly by the 45 minute Zumba class followed by line dance class. It was at a higher but not difficult level Same old stuff but by the time we finished those 3 activities we were ready for a rest.

Laura - Cruise Staff

      I went to the improv workshop and the waited to see if our names were drawn for the free package of formal portraits that we had done last night. Luck would have it, no luck. Then at 5:15 it was time for our Captain's circle party. There ship can hold 3700 passengers with all the extra berths in the cabins (we have one) on the ship. There are 3100 passengers on the ship, about 1000 at the Elite level. When you include all Captain's Circle members, they needed 4 parties to host them all.

     

We did attend the show – a singer from London. He did one song from Les Mis which was best. There are still long lines waiting to get into the next show. They did have a late show but since we are advancing an hour again tonight we managed the early one. Dinner as usual was very good. We have a good time with out table mates. After the rather tiring day we decided to leave the rest of the evening to the youngsters!