Today is the first of two sea days as we cruise to Walvis Bay, Namibia. This will be our first time to this area of the world.
We began our day as we do most days by getting up early and having our breakfast in the Lido Café. Since we moved the clocks forward yet another hour before going to sleep last evening, there were very few passenger’s having breakfast at this hour as most were sleeping in. After breakfast, we worked out in the Fitness Center. Anne Marie worked out on the Treadmill and Keith worked out on the Elliptical Machine. We find this routine works very well for us as we get our exercise done the first thing the morning before we get busy with other activities.
In yesterdays putting tournament two of the gentlemen from our dining room table places first and third in this event respectively. We were happy for them.
As this is a sea day many activities were planned for the passenger’s. There were more World Cruise Games and today there were also some crew games. For the crew, this included tug-a-war & slippery pole games. We enjoyed watching the crew play these games and they certainly had a lot of fun as well.
This morning we attended two lectures. The first was given by Ambassador Bob Goodwin who discussed some of his experiences participating on trips to foreign countries with some of the Presidential administrations that he was a part of. The second presentation was given by Dr. Art Ulene titled “Eat What You Love Without Gaining Weight”. Dr Ulene provided some really good sound advice on preventing weight gain along with excellent advice with regard to good eating habits. We thoroughly enjoyed both of these very interesting presentations. At Noon we attended Team Trivia. Our team did better today as we finished in a tie for second place.
After Team Trivia we had lunch in the main dining room. We each enjoyed a nicely prepared salad entrée.
This afternoon Anne Marie attended a presentation given by an independent Gemologist titled, “All the Other Gemstones You Love
Later in the afternoon we enjoyed the continuation with the world cruise games by watching some of the crew events. There were several different crew teams that competed in the Fug of War with a team of waiters finally winning the competition. This is the third year in a row that they have won and it was clear that carrying all of the dishes has added to their muscles. At the end of the event, Captain Otto and Cruise Director Gary Hunter squared off in the Slippery Pole competition and we have a picture on this Blog of the both of them. Unfortunately, by the time this event ended it was too late for Keith to compete in the mixed doubles shuffleboard games. Tomorrow, there will be a few final games that we will compete in such as a special trivia game and mixed doubles table tennis.
Tonight was another formal night. We decided to eat in Silk Road rather than in the Main Dining Room since we had never eaten there during a Formal evening. On formal nights many of the officers also dine in the specialty restaurants so we thought it would be nice to eat there just to change things up a bit. Once again, we enjoyed a truly outstanding meal.
Tomorrow we will enjoy another day at Sea before we arrive in Walvis Bay, Namibia on Wednesday morning. After still another day of sea on Thursday we will arrive in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday morning.
Keith & Anne Marie
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