April 18, 2024 Sea Day #5
Morning temperature was 17°C and some clouds. The temperature varies very little during our days at sea.
Today we had breakfast in the dining room, then attended the Cooking Demonstration in B.B. King’s Blues Club at 10 a.m. before going for our daily walk on Deck 3. The chef cooked sea bass and shrimp with confit tomatoes and peas & asparagus risotto in 40 minutes. The chef mentioned that this dish would be on tonight’s menu in the dining room. We arrived at 9:30 a.m. and 2/3s of the seats were already occupied.
There were so many people walking on deck 3 at varying paces that after half an hour, we opted to climb the stairs to Deck 11’s Jogging Track that about one third the distance of the Promenade Deck. There was about 15 people walking and two joggers, to whom the walkers yielded right of way, mostly. The Pickleball/Basketball court was being used for Pickleball. We ended with cappuccinos at the Explorers Café/Crow’s Nest with its large windows looking forward.
The captain’s announcement at noon advised that we had travelled 2,166 nautical miles and were 431 nm from the western most Azores island.
The clocks stay the same today, but change another hour tomorrow at noon.
Paul Eschenfelder was back in B.B. King’s Blues Club at 2 p.m. presenting The Only Way to Cross about the flying boats that crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the 1930s. Pan American Airlines made the first flight from California to Hong Kong, island hopping from Hawai’i to Australia then north to Indonesia to Macau then Home Kong. There is a flying boat museum near Limerick, Republic of Ireland. We will be travelling to Limerick on May 7, if there is time the museum sounds interesting.
Every day from 4 to 5 p.m. is half price Happy Hour in some of the lounges. While enjoying our drinks the captain made an announcement requesting anyone with a blood donor card and willing to donate blood for a critically ill person to please go to one of the meeting rooms. Within ten minutes he announced that there were sufficient people who volunteered.
The entrée of choice for most of out table of eight this evening was the Sea Bass and shrimp with confit tomatoes and peas & asparagus risotto plate demonstrated this morning. We skipped dessert at dinner again tonight and went to the Ballroom Dance hour in B.B. King’s Blues Club. The usual dozen dancing couples were there and an audience of several dozen. Some of our dinner tablemates have come to watch us dance after they finish dinner. There was another announcement from the bridge for a named guest to phone Guest Services. It could have been to locate someone regarding the critically ill patient. Maybe there will be rumour tomorrow.
At 8 p.m. by the indoor pool on Lido deck, the movie was The Grand Budapest Hotel which was more interesting than the theatre entertainment of songs and dances. It was a way to pass the time, I might rate it as 2 out of 5. After the movie we had cappuccinos at the Grand Dutch Café.
Total steps walked or danced today was 13,874.
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