2 Days at Sea

Monday, 13 Mar 2017 – Two “at sea” days were welcome relief from early rising and being herded into air-conditioned busses and out into the tropical heat.  Again we swam in the swimming pool; it had been warmer than our YMCA pool at home.  However, when Sally swam today, kicking was initiating sciatic-type pain for her.  For short periods three times, we have also danced and we need to do more of that for exercise.  Most of the time, the bands play later than Sally wants to stay up – especially if we have to get up early and have been outdoors in the heat, or if we have to rise early the next morning.

Believe it or not, we hadn’t been online since leaving the hotel in Singapore, which is possibly a record for us on any cruise.  Because we expect slow Internet, we write our e-mails before going online so that we’ll have something to send when we connect.  So far, we haven’t tried posting our blog.  It seems like a “busy” cruise, but we manage to sleep enough and eat too much.

For dinner this was a “Dress Up Or Not Night,” which is what Norwegian Cruise Line schedules in lieu of formal nights.  We had planned to dress up and take portrait photos tonight, but Sally had been sunburned a little at the pool, so we decided to delay the photo session.  Before retiring, we set our clocks back 1.5 hours.

Tuesday, 14 Mar 2017 – Jesse was up by 5:00 AM and went online for the first time since we have been on the ship.  Sally got out of bed to read her Facebook page, and then went back to sleep.  After breakfast, we went to the pool.  Since the water was warm and the pool was very crowded, we couldn’t really do very much swimming.  After dinner, we danced in the Atrium for the first time to the Melodic Trio from the Philippines.