Day at Sea

            Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020 – When we went to breakfast, it was pouring rain; therefore, there was no swimming again.  Although the Terrace Café was very crowded at lunch time, we found seats at a table for four with Canute and Julie.  Julie wasn’t feeling well.  They had attended the “Motown” show in the Insignia Lounge the night before, and the loud music had disturbed her; in fact, they had to leave in the middle of the performance.  Anyway, we asked if they were available for dinner, but Julie said that she wasn’t up to it.

            In the mid-afternoon, Jesse attended another line dance class with Airi & Oliver, where he did the Electric Slide, the Cotton Eyed Joe, and the Cut a Rug.  The dance floor was very crowded this time.  Although this was Jesse’s second time trying the Cotton Eyed Joe, he actually did better with the Cut a Rug.

We had received another invitation for an “exclusive” Oceania Club private cocktail party, where we sat at a table with Bruce & Pam, whom we had met previously.  Again, we received complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and danced for 30 minutes before the ceremony began, along with other couples.   We sat and talked for quite a while afterwards.  Since we were all dressed up, we went to dinner in the Grand Dining Room for the third time on this cruise.   Bruce and Pam had were eating in the Toscana Restaurant to celebrate Bruce’s birthday, and weren’t available to eat with us; therefore, we sat at a table for two.  (Toscana, though it does not cost more on the Insignia, is a specialty restaurant and requires a reservation.)  Our dinner for two was faster than our previous visits to the Grant Dining Room, when our dinner party consisted of four people.  Since dinner there can sometimes require two hours of sitting, Sally prefers to eat in the Terrace Café.  Sometimes she is so stiff after two hours that it is difficult to get up!

Sally was disappointed because we hadn’t seen any glaciers like we had on our 2011/2012 Princess cruise.  During that cruise, we had close-up views of them while sailing between Punta Arenas and Ushuaia.  Today, it had been raining and very foggy all day.

Although a comedy show was scheduled in the Insignia Lounge for 9:30 PM and a Mardi Gras Dance Party at 10:30 PM to celebrate “Fat Tuesday,” we opted to watch the results of the Democratic Presidential Debate instead on our stateroom TV instead.  We weren’t able to watch the live debate, but there were plenty of excerpts and discussion afterward.  It appears that Bernie Sanders was the target of the majority of the attacks this time, and not Mayor Bloomberg.