Shuffleboard Anyone?

What does one do when stuck out at sea for five days? Actually, we were never bored and kept fairly active. Each evening we would plan the following day using the Daily Schedule of activities. Lorna concentrated on the multiple variations of Trivial Pursuit, winning many prizes in the process. I went to some lectures and took some computer courses on how to use Photoshop Elements to handle digital pictures.

Somewhat surprising to me, the wife avoided the casino after the first day. She was there every day on our first cruise. I can't complain, though. We came out about five dollars to the good.

Meals were the anchors of the day. Breakfast and Lunch rotated between the formal sit-down type and the cafeteria-style. Dinner, however, was almost always the sit-down, formal to semi-formal, in the main Dining Room. We enjoyed the eating with the other couple who had travelled extensively and were excellent company.

And the Evening was always capped off with live entertainment in the Theatre. We had our usual sitting place and enjoyed the variety of offerings. There was music (both classical and popular), song and dance, marionnettes (better than it might sound), comedy and a magician. And waiters would bring drinks to you, if you wished. (I was, uh, money-conscious enough to avoid that, by and large). It's the sort of thing we rarely do at home.

Tomorrow or the next day I'll show you some of the activities they had onboard during the Sea Days and talk about the weather.