Out Into The Atlantic

   When we left Sydney last night, the ship headed out into the Gulf of St Lawrence through the Straits of Belle Isle and then north to Greenland. The total run will be about 1200 miles. The seas had remained relatively calm but we are getting a little more rock as we moved along.

   The sea day started with our usual Zumba. The instructor was different today and she had more of a routine. It is what we have experienced on other ships. More people were there today. After a light breakfast, I did manage to find some port tees that were on sale. They are both from the Caribbean! not Greenland. We have not seen any Greenland tee shirts in the shops.

    We had raman noodles in the small buffet at the back of the ship. That buffet has limited choices which is a good thing. For lunch they alternate between a noodle station and a Mongolian stir fry station. They also have a Mexican station and a few other selections as well.

    We went to our first art auction since they changed to Park West many cruises ago. There was very little of interest on the entire afternoon. Most of the artists that we were familiar with are long gone. We also noticed that the works were more high end than before. There must have been collectors in the crowd because some works went for thousands of dollars. The bid price was a lot closer to the estimated price for most of the works. They also sell most of the works unframed which was another change from the past. It is probably the last time I will go to an auction this cruise.

   

Steamer's Dinner

 The main showtime was a magician. We had seen a number of the tricks like the rope cutting. The Princess theatre is so packed that they do a broadcast to one of the lounges.

We were scheduled to go to the Italian specialty restaurant tonight but we cancelled that and went to “Steamers”. You can get a basic seafood dinner for a lower price but we enhanced it with our certificate. You add king crab and lobster. The meal was excellent and we could not finish everything that they brought.

   They also held Country Western night which of course meant the electric slide! Enough said. 2 more sea days before we hit Greenland. The temperature is around 7C (44F) already.