Day at Sea

            Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018 – We didn’t awake until 8:30 AM, so Jesse missed his 8:00 AM morning Mass.  At breakfast, we sat with Andra, from Queensland, Australia, near the border of New South Wales.  Before boarding this cruise, she was on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam.  She has visited several cities in the US and next year, she plans to take a cruise down the Mississippi River, from Memphis to New Orleans.
            At about 2:00 PM, we had intended to eat a light lunch, but we ended up eating soup, salad, and bread pudding for dessert.  In addition, Jesse had pasta and a slice of pizza.  We dressed up for dinner again and went to the main dining room where we joined Karen, from Washington, DC; Carol, from Minneapolis; and Jerry and Sheila, from Vancouver Island.  They were all eating at an assigned table and had eaten together since boarding the ship, but we enjoyed their company.  We danced for about 30 minutes before returning to our cabin for the night.
            When we returned to our cabin for the night, on our bed we found for each of us an “Arctic Circle Certificate.”  Jesse’s states, “This is to certify that Mr. Jesse Wendell Ivy crossed the Arctic Circle at 66 ̊33’ N. on board the MS Prinsendam on June 20 2018 and thus entered the land of the Midnight Sun”   Since the time of the crossing was not given on the certificate, we wondered exactly when we had crossed the Arctic Circle, or if we would be crossing it during the night.  Also, we had forgotten that we had crossed the Arctic Circle previously, on 10 September 2015 when the Caribbean Princess passed north of Iceland, until someone here told us that they had crossed it when they sailed north of Iceland.