{"id":138,"date":"2014-07-18T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel2\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-10-05T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T02:36:26","slug":"july-18-life-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel2\/july-18-life-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"July 18: Life at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Daily<\/a>

Daily Reminders in the Elevator<\/p><\/div>\n

Life at sea, when there are no excursions, is not super exciting.\u00a0 P.J and I have established a pattern.\u00a0 Today, I was awakened at 6:30 AM by the hustle and bustle in the restaurant above our cabin.\u00a0 By 7:30 I was at breakfast.\u00a0 P.J stayed in bed because she worked on a jigsaw puzzle until 2 AM.\u00a0 Later in the morning we typically go to the theater to attend presentations about our upcoming destinations.\u00a0 There is also a historian who is a very good and entertaining lecturer.\u00a0 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>\n

\"P.J.'s<\/a>

P.J.’s Favorite Place on the Ship<\/p><\/div>\n

We have dinner with fellow travelers. \u00a0I usually turn in by 10:30 or 11, while P.J often goes to the ship\u2019s 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.\u00a0 They were quite original and very entertaining.<\/p>\n

There are many \u201cprofessional cruisers\u201d on board, elderly people who hardly spend time at home and go from one cruise to another.\u00a0 If you have the money, it beats sitting in an old age home.\u00a0 They take much better care of you and you interact with fewer demented and more younger people (but not too much younger).\u00a0 We heard a second hand story of one woman on board who stays on the ship wherever it goes.\u00a0 When her ship had to go into dry-dock for renovations, she did not know what to do or where to go.<\/p>\n

It is gray today, about 50F\/10C, but quiet and no rain or fog; the ocean is very placid. \u00a0We are getting pretty far north.\u00a0 The sun rises around 4:30 AM and sets around 10 PM.\u00a0 This morning there was an Orca sighting.\u00a0 A pod of Orcas was jumping very close to the ship.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we have a 7:25 AM tender appointment to get off the ship at Nanortalik, Greenland.<\/p>\n

Photos \u00a9 2014 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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