Today is another sea day, so once again, we slept in a while before getting up and heading out to get coffee. Then I worked on getting the blog postings caught up through yesterday. The internet speed was slightly better today.
We headed out for breakfast at the buffet so our room steward, Edgardo could make up the room. We just wandered around on the Promenade Deck while the room was being finished. It was interesting to see that people were reserving the deck chairs on the Promenade Deck with their towels today for the first time this cruise, something that we usually see happening often with the chairs during most Caribbean Cruises. On those cruises, if you don’t get out there early and try and pick a chair out to unofficially “reserve” it with your towel, and possibly a book, you just don’t get a chair at all. On this cruise, that has not been an issue so far, probably only about 25% of the chairs out by the pool even get used, especially if they are directly in the sun. But, as we saw on the Promenade Deck, any of the lounge chairs in shaded areas are pretty hard to come by on this cruise, which were the ones being “reserved”.
We spent the rest of the morning reading on our balcony, since it is shaded in the morning, watching some more deep blue ocean pass by. Based on the navigational report on the TV, we have traveled a total distance of 5,890 nautical miles since we left Los Angeles.
Today at noon, the temperature was 80 degrees, and the sea temperature was 82 degrees, so it was warm, but not too hot. I just think that a lot of people are from areas in the USA where it is just not that hot and humid, and so they can’t take the heat. It is pretty breezy out on the decks, we are heading into the wind more today, so that helps keep the outside areas cooler. Our cruising speed is just at 20 knots.
Ukulele Concert in the Atrium
Today was the big Ukulele Concert in the Atrium at 2:00 PM. It was only three songs, so it lasted about 10 minutes, but it was fun. I am on the left in the rear in the green shirt in the photo, the fourth person in from the left.
After the big concert, we went to get a bite to eat for lunch and then went back to the Atrium to watch an egg drop contest. There were about 15 teams who used items that they could scavenge from on board the ship to build various contraptions to try and cushion the egg for a three story fall to a target below. There were points for accuracy, style and of course, survivability. All of the eggs that made it through the fall were then unwrapped from their survival craft, and then dropped to the floor to verify that they were not hard boiled “cheaters”. About 2/3 of them survived the initial fall. There were three judges, and they determined points for all of the categories that the teams were judged on. It was fun to watch.
Tonight is the Captain’s Circle Cocktail Party at 7:00 PM. This is the party for past cruisers on Princess Cruises, and is normally held in one of the lounges, but on this cruise, almost everyone is a past cruiser except for about 350 “new” Princess people, so the party for this cruise is being held in the Atrium Area, on Decks 5 through 7, the same place the Captain’s Reception is held. It was really crowded. We stayed for about 40 minutes, then we went to dinner in the dining room while the rest of the crowd was at the Captain’s Circle event.
After dinner, we went to see another episode of the Marriage Game Show, all of the couples were married between 37 and 50 years. It was much better than the first show we had watched a few days ago, the couples were better and so were the questions. After that was over we called it a night. We went back to the room to get everything ready for tomorrow’s port day in Bora Bora.