Two Days at Sea!

Sunday, March 27, 2011 and Monday, March 28, 2011

The title is about as exciting as the last two days.  We always enjoy the quiet, relaxing sea days.  They are a great time to catch up on sleep, reading, visiting, and whatever.  However, these last two days have been filled with emotion as we had to come to the realization that our dear friend, Dorothy, was not going to be able to continue with the cruise.  The ship’s doctor recommended that she fly home at the first opportunity and he gave her a medical release.

We did have another formal night and a grand performance by a musical group from Sidney, Australia via Russia.  Monday, I was in line for buffet breakfast next to one of the male performers and decided to “use” my Russian.  I said “speziba” (thank you) and he spoke back in Russian.  I shook my head and said the only other thing I know “yellowbluebus” which translates to “I love you”.  He started laughing and said that I must lead a very interesting life if those are the only two Russia words I know.  He was still laughing the next time I saw him.

Our course during the two days was slightly East of North and the seas were a bit rougher than those we experienced on our crossing of the Atlantic. Swells ran 8 to 14 feet and needed our sea legs.  We lost another hour on the ship’s clock and were confused by that since we had not moved very far to the East.  We decided that the ship made this change to save us 2 or 3 consecutive daily changes during the next week.   At any rate we went to bed Monday night in a bouncing cabin looking forward to an early arrival Tuesday morning for two full days docked securely in Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.