Jan 15th, 2023 Day 13 of 128

Sea Day

Sunday Sea Day. A true day of rest. Megan and I stayed in bed until 9:00am this morning. I woke especially early as normal, but forced myself to take a day off from eh gym and roll over and go back to sleep. After playing, who’s going to go across the hall and get mommy her coffee, I remembered we had to turn in our passports this morning so I lost. Periodically the ship has to present our passports on our behalf to immigration of certain countries. The first one is coming up so we turned over our passports to the ship for safe keeping. We also had to show them prove of our visas for both New Zealand and Australia as well as our yellow fever vaccination card. And yes, I did also get my coffee. Next it was off to crochet group. The group was a little smaller than usual this morning, porously because people were standing in line to submit the passports as well. You can imagine the logistics for having to do that for every passenger on board. This morning was the first Sunday brunch put on this cruise. We skipped breakfast this morning so we could participate in the event. See the menu posted below as well as a photo of the second course we were given. It always make me feel like a giant when we get to eat tiny food. It is always a wonderful sampling of some amazing foods and it did not disappoint. Then we headed back to the cabin because I have four days of blogs to get posted and I was hoping to get all caught up. It was a slow go but I successfully got all caught up on all my backlogged posts. Megan also met with Bonita for her tutoring for Algebra. I hope you enjoy seeing and reading about all the fun things we are doing. Don’t forget to check out the new and improved photos of Megan’s new hairdo. Make sure you leave comments and I can pass them on. Tomorrow is her 14th birthday and I have a few surprises up my sleeve. You’ll have to wait to hear about them tomorrow. I am waiting to hear back from the tailor on some alterations I want to have done on some clothes I brought. I have heard wonderful things about how well they sew. I also went to the photography studio and grabbed our portfolio of prints they have taken of us so far. I am in the process of getting them into my computer so I can show you all some of the great photos they have taken. I also have a new dress that I brought that I am not 100% happy with how it fit, so Henji, from guest services made arrangements for the tailor to come to my cabin and take a look at my dress. The tailor took to work on it and redesign the back it will be more comfortable for me to wear. We learned in 2020 that they do fantastic seamstress work on the ship. Permission had to be granted before they were allowed to work on my dress and I had to sign a release of liability waiver as well. It was then time to head back to the cabin to get ready for our 5:00pm seating for dinner in the main dining room. Tonight is Dressy night again so we opted for something a little dressier, which means what we would normally have worn, LOL! After dinner we took a little of our spare time and were finally able to reach out to family back at home. A quick hello and I love you was passed on while we had reception oh so briefly. Sometimes it’s all in the timing. Lastly, we went the Main stage to see tonight’s show called Swing, Swing, Swing. A 50’s style dance and singing show. It was pretty good and we enjoyed the music. Tonight we set our clocks ahead 30 minute. Yes, you read that correctly half an hour. So weird to us. We are officially leaving the Pacific time zone which we will not see again until May 12th, 2023. Farewell and Adieu. You must now do math again when remembering if it’s a good time to call or text me. Enjoy the photos some are from the past and one is from the brunch this morning. Eventually I’ll move the photos to the posts for the day they were taken. But for now I’ll post them a bit at a time so as to not overwhelm you all. Blessings and peace to you all.

Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Getting on the ship day…World Cruise take two here we go; Falmouth, Jamaica; Puerto Limon, Costa Rica; Fuerte Amador, Panama; Formal Night (many more photos to come); and Sunday Brunch menu and Main Courses (tiny food).