Daily Reminders in the Elevator
Life at sea, when there are no excursions, is not super exciting. P.J and I have established a pattern. Today, I was awakened at 6:30 AM by the hustle and bustle in the restaurant above our cabin. By 7:30 I was at breakfast. P.J stayed in bed because she worked on a jigsaw puzzle until 2 AM. Later in the morning we typically go to the theater to attend presentations about our upcoming destinations. There is also a historian who is a very good and entertaining lecturer. In the afternoon I go for a walk outside, get on the net to upload the blog and download my email, and to read the New York Times on-line (which is a free site); P.J does puzzling in the Explorer lounge.
P.J.’s Favorite Place on the Ship
We have dinner with fellow travelers. I usually turn in by 10:30 or 11, while P.J often goes to the ship’s evening entertainment, which I generally skip— except last night when they had a Canadian duo, Bande Artistique, that used to be in Cirque du Soleil. They were quite original and very entertaining.
There are many “professional cruisers” on board, elderly people who hardly spend time at home and go from one cruise to another. If you have the money, it beats sitting in an old age home. They take much better care of you and you interact with fewer demented and more younger people (but not too much younger). We heard a second hand story of one woman on board who stays on the ship wherever it goes. When her ship had to go into dry-dock for renovations, she did not know what to do or where to go.
It is gray today, about 50F/10C, but quiet and no rain or fog; the ocean is very placid. We are getting pretty far north. The sun rises around 4:30 AM and sets around 10 PM. This morning there was an Orca sighting. A pod of Orcas was jumping very close to the ship.
Tomorrow we have a 7:25 AM tender appointment to get off the ship at Nanortalik, Greenland.
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