Sunday, 18 Dec 2011 – We lost electrical power to our cabin at 12:35 am. Sally was already asleep, but Jesse had to find his way to bed in the dark. We heard that power was offline in a large portion of the ship for about an hour. At any rate, last night we turned our clocks back another hour and thus perhaps “got another extra hour of sleep.” We both woke up around 7:30 am. After breakfast, we shopped for 20 minutes at the 3-hour onboard outlet sale. Although we were given two large, plastic Princess shopping bags to use for any purchases, we didn’t buy anything; when Sally would see something that might be worth closer examination, someone else’s hands suddenly snatched it and crammed it into her shopping bag. Twenty minutes of that was enough!
Later, again we went to a large group dance lesson – the second for Tango.
Yesterday the temperature started increasing noticeably as our ship was sailing down the coast of Africa (along West Sahara). By this morning, our ship was sailing away from Africa, heading southwest across the Atlantic toward Brazil. Prior to lunch, we swam in one of the ship’s two pools and then sat in a hot tub. After lunch, we did a load of laundry. And after that, Sally read and Jesse watched movies on TV.
After dinner, we danced first with the Buenos Aires Quartet in one lounge, and then with the Grooveline in the same lounge as on previous nights. Besides several Cha-Cha’s and a few Swing’s, we were happy that a Tango was played so that we were able to practice what we had learned (sort of!). So far, we haven’t danced the Foxtrot since we left home.
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