4-2 Our First Day at Sea

What a great night. For the first time since we've left home we slept like babies.  The rocking of the island princess was a lullaby to us.  We woke to room service with a pot of coffee and croissants with preserves.

BTW, happy birthday to me!   So after a slow start we he'd down to the buffet for breakfast. The tour the ship to get familiar. At 10 we headed to the theater to catch an education presentation of "when icebergs were seen on the. Florida coast".  The presenter spoke about the origin of the sand on the beaches of Florida and scientific evidence of origin of the quartz based sand- the Appalachian mountains. Interesting.

 At 11 we head over to the wheelhouse bar to meet with the cruise critic gang.  This group is nothing like our Mediterranean group on the legend. There were roughly 20 people.  We spent the majority of the time with a gal from Tucson. She had singled me out because on the cruise critic roll call she had mentioned it was her husbands birthday on the 2nd.  And I had responded that it was my birthday too and we needed to celebrate. Well, there wasn't a lot of celebrating with the group, but we had a nice conversation with her and her husband and then decided to head out for a bit more exploring.  We needed to change our dinner reservations fro 8 to 7:30 because we wanted to have enough time to make it to the Piano Man performance at 9:45.

At 1 we headed to the aft lounge to hear an intro to photography lecture. It was actually quite interesting. Basic, but interesting. The presenter spoke about the special setting ps on an slr camera. The nice thing was that it was a Nikon lecture. Past photography classes I've attended we're always canon based. Although similar, it was nice to have a Nikon lecture for a change.

Later, we ended up back in our room for an afternoon nap. The seas were a bit rough today and we both were a bit tired so we ended up watching superman, Man of Steel.


We had dinner reservations at the bayou cafe at 7:30.  I had filet and t had chicken. I ordered the filet medium well.  Note.  Order medium next time.  This one was too well done. But the dinner was wonderful and the piano man and waiters sang happy birthday to me. Good memories.

after dinner we headed to the theater to watch the musical group perform Billy Joel, Barry Manalow and Elton John music.  Even with a rocking boat the show was great. And afterward we decided to catch the Scott Walker comedy show too.  He was a hoot.  So it's almost midnight and it's time to hit the sack. The ol' Island princess will be rocking us to sleep tonight.

The Atrium