Day 3 Sea

Well......its been a hard day, but some-one has to do it. After eating
dessert every night, we started with a nice light breakfast of fresh
fruit and a small bowl of cereal, then did a wander of the boat and took
the camera and video camera to get some shots of the pool deck area. Ran
into a friend who asked where we going to trivia so did that and got the
same score as our first day, but if we played by work rules we may have
done much better!! Then decided a swim would be the thing , so I bravely
put on the swimmers (no photos of that) and we had a lovely swim before
venturing to lunch. Had salad with just a tiny bit of pasta......mmmmm.
Then back to lying on the deck chairs and reading our kindles. Found out
because we were so close to land we had normal phone coverage, so folks
everywhere were ringing home and sending texts. Katie also used that
unexpected bonus to download a few more books to her kindle. Once we
lost the coverage we decided to have some free ice cream as we had done
the 3 laps of the promenade earlier (which is 1 mile), before venturing
to a rum demonstration. Had a rum history lesson and free tasting of 3 types
of rum. I tried the Bacardi (took me back to my teens), then we had the
Captain Morgan, but gave the Bundy a miss. Katie tried the Captain but
decided she prefers her rum mixed into a cocktail. Luckily there is a
team cocktail event in the next few days, so she'll put her hand up for
that, maybe both of us will.......stay tuned for that. We are running
into different folks we have met and its always nice to stop and say hi
to them all. Even though there are close to 2000 passengers on board,
no-where has felt crowded and there were only 6 of us in the pool
together and funnily enough 2 were Sue and Colin who are our table mates
in the dining room each night. Each night if you choose to eat in the
main dining room you are seated at the same table. We are on a table for
6, Sue and Colin from Tassie and Vicky and Micky from NSW. They are
lovely company and we are all getting off at Dover. Each day we check
out what is being served on the menu that night and so far it has been
tempting enough so that we haven't yet ventured to one of the other venues available.


pool area with big movie screen in background




more pool



After our rum tasting we came back and thought about the gym but decided
on a pre dinner nap. Dinner is at 7.45pm each night if you choose the
main dining room, which we did again and again ate the 3 courses!
Luckily they are small. ( if I repeat myself about facts, please forgive
me as I don't reread much that I write ever). After dinner we went to
the night club Jammers where there was a Wii dance competition, there
were only about 20 folks there and of those 6 had a go. Katie being the
trooper had 3 goes, but the funniest was watching 2 young (under 25)
guys going against each other (twice!) . Katie beat both of them and
another lady, am so happy that her dance lessons paid off. We are now
back in our rooms, reading the daily patter, which is a newsletter
advising of all the activities for the next day and we have highlighted
a few we want to do........ice carving demo, wacky pool games, zumba,
trivia, art auction, horse racing and more. It will be interesting to
see which ones we do.