Our Cruise, Day 2

Caribbean, Day 2

When we woke up, we went out on our balcony and saw flying fish. Yeah, actual flying fish, darting alongside the boat. I’d never seen them live before, but Jess tells me they follow boats all the time in that part of the world.

This was our ‘day at sea’, which is to say the boat didn’t stop anywhere, so we took our time and explored most of the nooks and crannies of the boat. We found a pool at the back of the boat and hung out there for a while, which was really fun because the boat was rocking a little bit and so the pool had this neat, wavy motion pretty much the whole time. We boated through a downpour, too, but only a brief one, and since we were in the pool already, we didn’t have to worry about getting wet.

From Caribbean Trip

Jess took another nap (hey, we’re on vacation!) and I went on the galley tour. I got to see the big, main kitchens where they do the dinners in the fancy dining rooms. It was a lot of stainless steel, and they had set up a little ingredient tour for us where we got to see some of the stuff they work with and some of the things they make with it. They had a guy carving elaborate patterns in a cantaloupe there. I’d seen pictures, but never anything like that in person. Very pretty.

I also dropped by the art auction, which was nice in its own way, if not a little silly, and the Cigar bar (where Blood Power would be performing later!)

From Caribbean Trip

Then it was time for dinner. Formal night, this time, which meant we got to dress up in the fancy clothes we brought along. Something I hadn’t mentioned before was that you always had dinner in the same location, with the same people. We were with a nice couple from Boston and another from the Florida area. We would sit and chat about cruising, what we had done, and what was upcoming and exciting. There was another couple there the day before, but we never saw them at dinner again. The may have just hung out by the Pizzaria.

After dinner, we went to the ‘Show’. They had one on the boat most every night. This night it was a ‘revue’ of a sort, which is to say people singing and dancing and some ladies in costumes with massive feather fans and the like. I sat there through several of the songs trying to figure out what the point was. I didn’t like the music much, and if I want to see scantily clad ladies, I don’t have to put up with bad music to do it. Eventually we just dodged out of the theatre early and hung out on the balcony, watching the sun set and the boat move. The motion of the waves against the bow is really hypnotic.

And then more blood power band! We saw them in the cigar bar and listened for quite a while, but not quite so late, we had to get up in the morning. There was *adventure* to be done.

-N