On Our Way

For our first sea day and most of next the weather has not been conducive to a Queensland holiday.....it has been cloudy but the seas have not been anywhere as turbulent as I thought they would be.... It was unfortunate that on our first night there was a code Alfa called on public address system ... we weren't surprised as we did notice that the age group of passenger was a lot older than we have experienced in the past... An elderly gentleman had a heart attack during dinner in the Florentine Room. He was rushed back to the medical centre and we were woken in the morning with an announcement that there was going to be a helicopter evacuation of a sick patient, at least we knew that the he had survived the night...

I would have to say that the two days at sea have been jammed packed with activities. Our cruise director Peter Tredgett has been very entertaining and he and his staff have really kept people busy... I was staggered to see that bingo now is run twice a day.... hmm they sure know where they make the most money.....

We have done all the usual activities, trivia, Art Auctions, Fruit carving and Garry, Ross and myself made sure that we were close enough to the front to be picked to be volunteers for the martini demonstration... which wasn't hard as we were the only ones young enough to get up off the steps without any help LOL. What a laugh we call ourselves the young ones on this cruise LOL....

The food has been spectacular as usual..... Even the buffet hasn't been too bad though I have only taken a walk through to check it out... I still love the dining room and our wonderful head waiter Lyntten has looked after me well especially when he happily went back and got me a second helping of the yummiest garlic prawns. ( He saw my face when I sacrificed a couple of my prawns for Garry to try...)

We haven't been to MUTS yet as it has been a little too windy to sit up on deck... but I am eager to give it a try...Thought we weren't impressed when at lunch time they played some documentary on something to do with Apollo and the moon... Too loud if you out on deck to relax, swim or read a book.... don't we complain now that our kids spend too much time in front of the TV and not enough time outside!! It is such an anti social activity to have on the ship.

This afternoon the weather has cleared and to be outside is just stunning... we have seen dolphins playing in our wake... we have seen whales spouting out in distance and tonight we had the most stunning sunset.

I am sitting here writing this and you would not even think we are moving is so still, hmm maybe we have stopped LOL.... if it wasn't so dark or a tender in the way I would out the window to make sure we were still moving....