2 Days at Sea

           Tuesday, 21 Mar 2017 – We set back our clocks again last night by 1.5 hours, so that we were awake by 7:30 AM and went to the pool to swim, probably the only time on this cruise we will swim so early!  The pool has usually been lukewarm, but this time it was much colder, perhaps 80 degrees or less.  Since there were only a few people in the pool besides us (and they got into the water within 5 minutes before or after we did and didn’t usually stay long), we were able to swim until we tired of it.  Then we went to breakfast, after which Sally napped again.   Lunch, dinner, conversation with other passengers, and dances to a few songs completed our day.

Wednesday, 22 Mar 2017 – This morning, we slept in and went late to breakfast.  About 1:00 PM, we went for a swim.  Since the water was cold again, we had plenty of open space in the pool to swim laps.  We barely made lunch time, going at 2:40 PM, but Jesse makes a point of eating three meals daily (which is really too much for Sally; however, she almost always goes, too, because Jesse doesn’t like going alone!  It was interesting to watch the big crowd rush to the buffet line five minutes before closing time. 

This evening, we decided to try dinner in the Aqua dining room instead of in the huge Versailles, where we have always eaten previously.  Sally liked the small size of the room and the shorter time at dinner; however, Jesse had a headache at the beginning of the meal and was not very conversant, despite the friendly couple (from central CA) seated at the same table.  He prefers the Versailles dining room for our evening meal, which has windows – though we usually sit a long way from them.  We danced to three or four songs in the atrium before retiring to our cabin and were asleep by 11:00 PM.