Day 7 ~ July 18, 2014 Sea Day

"If you want sunshine and fair temperatures, cruise the South Pacific. This is the North Atlantic; cold and fog are to be expected. Deal with it."  We lost another hour today.  This is hard on your body. 

 

So what does one do with another day at sea? To provide a sense of the options, we provide below a schedule of events for this day, a typical sea day except for being impoverished by one hour. For the majority of you who aren't interested, just scroll through it.

 

DAY 07 AGENDA

 

7:00 Sunrise Stretch

8:00 Walk-a-mile (Lower Promenade Deck)

Fitness classes - stretches

8:00 Catholic Mass

8:00  Indoor Cycling $12

9:00 Good Morning Veendam

Shore excursion presentation

10:00 Advanced photo editing

Spa seminar - eat more to weigh less   how does that work?

Diamond seminar

10:30 Widows 8.1

11:00 Culinary demonstration

12:00 Noon - Team Trivia

1:00 Singles & Solos

Advanced photo editing

Spa secrets -

Texas hold'em tournament

Bridge 'till 4

Informal card players meet

1:30 Friendly Bridge

Hands on cooking class

2:00 Afternoon movie

Premium wine tasting (mucho extra charge)

2:30 Port presentation

Free throw sports challenge

3:00 Digital video workshop

3:30 Trivia games

Evolution of art lecture

4:00 Friends of Bill W. Meeting

Scrapbooking classes

4:30 Bingo

5:00 Friends of Dorothy Meeting

6:30 Early Showtime

9:00 Specialty coffees, cognacs, & classical strings

9:30 Barry the Piano Bar

10:00 ShowTime

11:30  Party continues in the Crows Nest

 

With no port arrival to observe, we both slept until 7, then showered and went up for breakfast. With cruise fares slashed, the food servers are exercising strict portion control. They will give all you ask for, but you must ask; the default portions are quite small. The eggs Benedict, for example, are made with very thin slices of Canadian bacon. They will cheerfully make them with two slices, but you must ask. Shown below are a few of the breakfast serving stations.

 

 

Smoked Salmon & Trimmings

 

 

Cooked to Order Breakfast Station

 

 

Breakfast Meats

 

 

 

 

Today  we mostly just relaxed. After breakfast we moved out by the pool. Bob his time transcribing the schedule shown above, while I tried to update some of my blog.

 

 

A HAL Entertainer Relaxes in the Hot Tub

 

At 10 we went below to hear a lecture about the next two ports of call.   

 

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