FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 - At Sea

We were told when we met our stewardess the first day she would keep the clock in our room on the correct ship’s time and leave a note in the room each night that the time is changed. OK. According to last night’s ships log the sun doesn’t rise until well after 8 this morning. OK.

Fast forward to this monring....Dick wakes up at some point rested and ready to go after sleeping almost all day yesterday. It is beginning to get light so he gets up and checks the TV clock which happens to still be on yesterdays time. He changes the room clock back and goes to the coffee lounge......Carolyn wakes up and looks at the room clock and it is just 7! So she rolls over and goes back to sleep waking again about an hour later. Dick hasn’t come back yet but she goes ahead and gets ready for breakfast. Dick comes back at his usual 8:30AM and we head to the dinning room...it is closed! It is a quarter to 10 not 9! Very put out....Carolyn at Dick for changing the room clock that the stewardess had correctly set like she always does and Dick at the ship’s TV clock for being wrong...later the ship took the whole channel down because it had a problem! We get off to a rather rocky start especially since the upstairs buffet closes just after we get there...not the best breakfast!

Carolyn goes to the rest of Terry’s talk on Chile. It started at 9:45AM! Dick goes back to the room and writes the blog and down loads the most recent pictures. Carolyn comes back from the talk and sorts the pictures and gets the blog and pictures up to date.

She goes to lunch hoping for some fruit soup, but no luck today so she orders a hamburger then finds a soft spot to read and people watch. By now the sun has come out and it is a beautiful cool day. We seem to have finally gotten out of the dusty haze we have been sailing through for some time.

After several turns around deck 12 and watching the pool tsunami

Carolyn goes down for some balcony time. Dick goes up to play in the pool and is having a hard time deciding whether to stay in the pool and play or go to Trivia. An officer comes out and makes that decision for Dick when he closes the pool because it is getting to dangerous.

Tonight is a block party again. We attend. Almost everyone on our deck is new. The average age has gone up also. In fact the mood of the ship has changed too. It is much quieter this segment and older. You could fire a canon on the pool deck and not hit anyone it is so empty! Funny how things can change so much!

We have our "real Prime 7" reservations tonight and share a table with a couple from San Francisco. The food is good and we enjoy the company. Afterwards we go to the Mariner Lounge and visit with another couple for awhile then head to bed. The ship is rolling around tonight...we are riding those long roller waves again.