The skies were mostly cloudy today as we approached the equator once again. We are back in the inter-tropical convergence zone, so there is always a chance for some rain showers.
I got up early today to attempt to load some photos into a slideshow on the blog. I had made a couple of attempts yesterday, but lost internet connection before the entire slideshow was loaded up. At the early hour, I was able to get it completed. I also added some photo gallery capability to the blog, so hopefully, over the next couple of days, I can add more photos.
At about 9:00 AM today, the skies cleared, and it was a perfectly sunny day. However, the wind has increased to blowing around 30 knots, and the seas have also increased, and are approaching at more of a sideways angle to the ship, causing a considerable rocking motion.
Both of us could feel the impacts of the rolling seas. I spent too much time on the computer, and it made me feel a little woozy, similar to reading in a car, which is something I just can’t do.
We put on sunscreen and headed up to the sun deck. At about 11:00 AM, we crossed the equator once again, but this time, there was no special ceremony, or even any announcement, other than the normal noon update from the Bridge. Part of the update was to tell us we had once again crossed the equator, and gave the approximate time of the crossing.
We can tell that the temperature is dropping as we head north, it was only 72 degrees this morning, and the high was about 80 degrees. Luckily, the wind is more from the side, but from slightly astern, so there was not as much relative wind on deck today as yesterday. If you got in a shady area, with the little bit of wind, it was rather cool.
Once again, we were feeling lazy and did not get dressed up for dinner in the dining room. We had checked the menu earlier in the day and had not seen anything that motivated us to go to the dining room. We were still feeling the impact of the larger seas, so we just took it easy and watched a movie on our TV after dinner in the buffet.
This whole trip so far we have yet to see a quintessential “post from Stephanie” where she takes over & does a blog post, come on girl, where you at?
I will let let do a rainy day at sea ….ha ha.
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So glad you two are having a good time! Sorry about feeling under the weather at the moment! Love the pics as well but we need to see more of Stephanie hanging onto trees over water! Safe travels home!
We are all better now, sometimes I just think it is all of the food, beverages, etc. Although we have spent a lot od days at sea previously, we never had as many rough days, or as many days in a row period.
Was gray outside all day today, probably for the rest of the trip. Good weather for packing tomorrow.
See you soon,
Chuck & Stephanie