Day 2 - Sea Day

Monday - We had coffee delivered to the room first thing in the morning. In addition we had breakfast in the main dining room. I guess I prefer food brought to me as opposed to a buffet. After breakfast, I tried out a couple of the hot tubs in the solarium on the front of the ship. The lower pool was kind of windy and cooler than the upper, more protected pool.

There is a quartering tail wind of 30kts so you can feel side to side movement of the ship. The ship is pretty stable even with 9 foot seas. 

Bridget signed up for a port shopping talk but the focus was on jewelry and other higher end items. They did hand out a free pendant to every attendee. 

Bridget wanted to locate one of the other couples on the cruise that weren’t using the app due to technology challenges. I got them on the free non-Internet WiFi that allows them to use the Royal Caribbean text function.  I found them in the buffet area trying to find a table. It was crowded.

It was “formal night” in the main dining room so that meant a suit coat. The menu was French inspired so French onion soup and escargot for appetizers, tenderloin with a green pepper sauce for the main, and a cheese plate for dessert. All wonderful and delicious. After dinner, it was a nice to sit out on our interior balcony. There was a talented guitarist performing in the park. Later in the evening, we went to see a mini-Broadway production of the musical Grease. 

Grease was performed in the Royal Theatre which is a 1,400+ seat theatre in the front of the ship. It’s huge with two levels of balconies. No pictures were allowed during the production. 

Later - The show was phenomenal! The singers and dancers were exceptional especially given the limited space on the stage. 

Real time update - The weird formatting is what you get when pasting from notepad. I wrote these posts during the cruise in notepad as we didn’t have Internet. The first one from the cruise was posted from Mexico where i think I had Internet from AT&T. But I never received a text like I normally did so I didn’t stay connected. 

It’s good to be back in Hondo. Though I’ve been sick the last couple of days. The Covid test came out negative but with so many people, catching something was almost inevitable.