At Sea

Thursday, 22 Dec 2011 – We awakened early again this morning, mostly recovered from yesterday’s ordeal.  After breakfast, Jesse (the shopper in the family!) went down to the second onboard outlet sale, while Sally stayed in the cabin and read.  In the afternoon we went to our daily dance lesson, which was a review of the steps learned so far.  After dinner (the third formal one), we danced again to the Buenos Aires Quartet; and then swam in the covered swimming pool, finishing our evening sitting again in the hot tub by the pool.

We are approaching the end of the cruise to Rio de Janeiro, but of course we are staying on board for the second cruise to Santiago, Chile.  Before we boarded, we didn’t realize they are considered two separate cruises.  Only one more at sea day left before our day in Rio.  Therefore, today we received our new Cruise Card (room key/charge card) which was an upgrade to a Platinum Card.  The main advantage to this new category for us is free Internet minutes.

We noticed today that our clocks were only 2 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.  However, we also received notice today that we should set our clocks forward one hour tonight, thus increasing the difference again.  (We must have gone slightly east again, or maybe the time zone line was not straight in this location?)