Feb 19th, 2023 Day 47 of 128

Sea Day

Today is our second sea day and I consider it a blessing to have the time to rest and relax my achy back. We slept in a little bit this morning. With all the time changes right now my body is slightly confused about when it should and should not be waking up. We are skipping breakfast this morning because today is Sunday Brunch. Tiny food day!! We are joining three, most lovely people we met from Florida. A husband and his wife, along with the man’s sister. Early into the cruise the sister came up to Megan and I and introduced herself. Turns out she recognized me from following my blog. I am not using their names because I didn’t ask their permission and hopefully I can revise this later! We spent part of Derby day with them and get to exchange quick conversations with them most evenings as they pass by our table in the main dining room. You would have to work VERY hard to not make new friends on a world cruise. After brunch we went home for Megan to get ready for tutoring and I went for a massage on my back and then immediately after saw the acupuncturist. After tutoring Megan did homework and some reading and then went to play Catan at 3:00pm. We met back at the cabin around 4:00pm to get ready for dinner. I am happy to report I am starting to feel better. I feel like I am healing and I am able to move little better today. It’s been ten days since I injured myself and I am looking forward to being fully recovered. After dinner we went to the Main Stage for this evenings performance. It was done by a Sand Artist John Thiering who was recently on Australia’s Got Talent. It was a neat to see what he could do with sand, a light box, and just his hands. We really enjoyed his performance. After the show we headed home and I got ready for bed. Megan went off to play cards with Gail and Marty. Tonight we set our clock back yet another hour. We are now 8 hours behind you all in CA. When I wake up at 7:30am for my day, Valerie is ending her day at school back at home. Makes communication a little more difficult, but emails can be sent as well as text messages. Just may not always get immediately responses. Tomorrow another sea day. Yea!!

Quick carpet story/explanation. Someone posted yesterday on facebook the above photo with the caption “I found where they live when not on duty”. Holland America puts a carpet in every elevator that has the day of the week on it. In case you forget what day it is, which can happen on a journey this long, by some miracle, the carpet fairies comes out every night and change every one. I have never seen it happen, but I know it does happen. Thank you HAL carpet fairies for helping us to know what day of the week it is!