Valentine's Day at Sea - with a twist

I started my morning off doing Tai Chi with Stefi. Sadly, this was the last Tai Chi class she is teaching on this cruise. They’re down a host and so things are having to be cancelled. Dave had his usual breakfast on the Lido, and I went down to the dining room for the steel cut oats. I ended up at a table with some complainers, but they also had many interesting stories so I hung around. As I was making my way back to the room, I got a message from Dave asking where I was and suggesting I come back quickly to the cabin. I hustled. He’d woken up not feeling great and done a Covid test and it showed positive.

I tested negative. We went down to the medical center to start the process. He’s restricted to the cabin; I have to test every other day, but still have the freedom of the ship and ports. We don’t get our room cleaned any more but room service is free – sadly, a very limited menu.

So far he's only mildly ill; we're monitoring it and in touch with his doctor's office in Oregon about paxlovid. As of Wednesday morning I'm still feeling fine and testing negative, but we go to different activities onboard and he may have picked it up at a wine tasting. The ship has a fully equipped medical center down on deck 1 and we won't be out of helicopter range for the remainder of the cruise.

I mostly hung out in the cabin with Dave – actually, it was kind of nice to stay in. I took a huge nap and did some reading. Later in the afternoon I found a spot outside on deck 8 just in front of the pool cover that was shady and pretty good for Nia; people walked by occasionally but weren’t much of a problem. I was able to remember all of the moves to songs 1-6 and in most cases even had the transitions; I’m going to start focusing on songs 7-12 now.

We had dinner in our cabin and it was fine, we also sent out a bag of laundry. Blogs will decrease in frequency since Dave is confined to the cabin and I am limiting my activities.

Valentines Day dinner. Not what we'd planned.