We had a really rough night at sea. The wind was quite strong, and the ship was really moving a lot. Our cabin in really far forward in the ship, making it a little worse. We slept in and got up and were ready for breakfast at about 10:00 AM. It was nice and sunny, at least the TV picture we can get of the ships bridge cam showed it to be sunny outside. It was cool again this morning, about 51 degrees, but worse, the wind was blowing about 35 knots, and the seas were about 12-14 feet. We could really feel it during the night.
We headed to the buffet for breakfast, and like the other sea day, had difficulty finding an open table. Once again, it was being used as a congregating area, people were just sitting and talking, long after finishing their breakfast.
After we ate, we headed to the covered Calypso Pool area and found a couple of lounge in the sunshine to sit in and relax and catch up on these posts. The water in the pool was really surging due to the rough sea conditions. It always make for a large splash show at either end of the pool, the splashes were going about 15 feet high at times as the water surged back and forth.
We then headed to the buffet for lunch, they were featuring Mexican food, we think for celebrating yesterday’s Cinco de Mayo. It was pretty good food, and we had a Dos Equis Beer with our lunch to celebrate.
After lunch we went to the Vines Bar for a couple of glasses of red wine. It is a great bar to go to because they serve upscale wines, so we can try some different wines and try to find some new ones that we like. We were signed up for a wine tasting this afternoon, so we were getting in a little practice. The wine tasting was free for me as part of my Elite status benefits, but we paid the minimal fee for Stephanie. We headed to the wine tasting and were surprised at the turnout, they said it was over 300 people. It was just OK, the wines consisted of three white wines and two red wines. None were all that great, and one of the white wines was a Muscato, which is way too sweet for out taste. Overall, it was sort of a waste of time, but we did not know without going,
After the tasting, we went for a soak in the hot tub, still trying to receiver from all of the walking we had done yesterday in San Francisco. The weather was pretty much the same all day, sunny, but very windy and cool out on the open decks of the ship.
After our hot tub session, we headed back to the cabin to get ready for the special Captain’s Circle Party at 7:00 PM. We headed to the event, but first stopped off at the Vines Bar for a glass of wine to take to the event. they only serve box wine at the Captain’s Circle event, so we decided to take our own using our beverage package, and the wines are of much better quality than the free ones at the event.
We went to the Captain’s Circle event which ended in about 25 minutes. We got in line for the dining room, but had a 30 minute wait time, so it was back to Vines with our pager to wait on a table for dinner. Dinner was good, the main course was scallops.
After dinner, we headed to the Calypso Bar to visit our favorite bar tender, Nigel from India. we =had one drink and then headed for the second session of the Karaoke that we had attended previously. Overall, the singing was not as good tonight, but it was still enjoyable.
After the show, it was time to retire for the night. We are in the port of Astoria, Oregon tomorrow.