Today was the second of our two consecutive sea days before our first port of call. We did sleep in this morning, not waking up until about 9:00 AM. With the inside cabin, we don’t get any indicator of the time of day since it is always dark.
After getting ready, we once again headed to the buffet for breakfast. Afterward, we applied sunscreen and headed to the pool deck to relax in the sunshine.
It was a nice morning weather wise, but after lunch, it started to get cloudy, and they made an announcement that we were heading into some heavy rain, and for people out on the open decks to seek some shelter.
We ran into several light rain storms, and then one that was more like a downpour, and that definitely chased everyone inside or at least to covered areas by the pool. We saw some of the other couples from yesterday at the Seaview Bar, so we joined them for some drinks.
Before some of the larger rain showers arrived, the bar tenders at the Seaview Bar put on quite a show juggling bottles and shakers, and one of them poured 15 martinis at one time from a set of stacked cups that held the drinks and as he laid them over sideways, they poured into the martini glasses he had placed on the bar. They called it “flaring”
We snacked on some fresh pizza and then it was time to head back to our room to get ready for the first formal night. It was the Captain’s reception, and also the champagne fountain.
Stephanie gave me some monogrammed cuff links for my tux, an early anniversary present. We ran into the older couple from Naples, and they introduced us to some other friends that they had met on previous cruises.
We had looked at the dinner menu earlier in the day and had not seen anything on it to convince us to go to the dining room, so we actually ate at the special pizzeria located in the atrium area, and it was quite good, and the service staff are very friendly.
After dinner, we had a couple of drinks at the Bellini’s Bar in the Atrium. We did not want to stay out too late because we visit our first port tomorrow, the city of St. John’s in Antigua, so we headed back to the cabin. Tomorrow we need to get going fairly early in the morning since we are doing our own shore excursion.
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