Woke up bright and early – we keep losing an hour so getting up early isn’t an issue when you go to bed at 10! The seas are calm, but it is freezing cold with a ferocious wind. Wow! Being on the balcony is a challenge without your cold weather gear. That will change soon, and we’ll probably be wishing we had the cold back!
Headed up to the gym at 7:00 and it was packed. All the equipment was in use and we couldn’t quite figure out how. The place isn’t supposed to open until 7:00 – but whatever – we went for coffee and came back. Oh my gosh! It was worse. We had to wait in line for any machine – we were about 4th in line and actually got something relatively quickly. There is supposedly a 20 minute limit on the machines – but some people aren’t paying attention to that. A few of the folks in the line have gone up to machine users to tell them it’s 20 minutes and they have been complying.
We’re exercising away and down at the end, a gentleman must have told the 2 people on the treadmills that it was a 20-minute limit because a shouting match ensues. It gets so heated, we thought there was going to be a fight right then and there. The guy on the treadmill was threatening the guy who told him to get off – and the wife on the treadmill was screaming “you just shut your mouth!”. Honestly, people, get a grip. It’s a freaking gym and you are on a cruise! What’s your deal? If it’s 20 minutes, it’s 20 minutes and you’ve got 30 people in line behind you – don’t hog the machine (which they were – they were over 20 minutes with no intentions of getting off) – have a little consideration! Not on this ship, obviously. Man!
Later in the morning, we went to our first trivia of the cruise. ½ the team is here, and we grabbed a couple of ladies standing by us – and ended up with a very unrespectable 14 out of 24. Yeah, well, we’ve not changed! Still fun though.
Evening ritual - gym (still had to wait for machines), shower, dinner. It’s the first formal night so everyone is all dressed up and beautiful. Lots of tuxes on this ship, lots! Went back to the Savoy, got our pager this time and waited in the lobby bar. The little bar steward was brand spanking new and it took a hysterical 10 minutes to get a beer and wine, she had to come over 3 times to ask me which wine I wanted, and then tell me that they were charging for the Pinot Grigio (they were having the captain’s cocktail party in 30 minutes and giving away free drinks, but obviously not Pinot Grigio!), then another waiter had to come over and ask. It was pretty funny, and in the end we got our drinks just in time for our table!
Dinner was excellent as usual. Filet for me, Fish for Ed. Then we splurged on the dessert! Chocolate soufflé – I’m not missing out on that one. I’ll skip everything else! Ed had the cheese plate which looked really good – but give me the chocolate!
After dinner we went to Club Fusion for the “dance party”. It was terribly fun people watching. Tons of dancers, all doing some sort of 2, 3 or 4 step dance, some the tango, some who knows! There was one couple with a woman I called the aging beauty queen! He was older, she, maybe 50’s or 60’s, Japanese. Her posture was totally erect, hair in a do with curls all pinned up, very 50’s elegant. She had on this dress that was either absolutely fantastic or so out of fashion it wasn’t funny. I just couldn’t decide. A deep pink with an empire waist and straight cut top with spaghetti straps. But under the length of the pink part of the dress (which was slit all the way up to the bodice) was a white “under slip” with flowers on it – the flowers matched the design on the bodice. Then to complete the outfit, a gauzy chiffon half jacket. And they danced like little marionettes! It was just great to watch!
After about an hour of ok music and dancing, we headed for Explorer’s lounge only to find Karaoke. Decided to bag that and head back to the cabin for our night cap and another good night’s sleep in our squishy Princess bed.
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