We woke this morning to clear, sunny skies and did some Lido for breakfast. Discovery: the Belgian waffles, while tasty, are not crispy on the outside. I had a difficult choice to make for my 8:00 activity – did I want to try the bootcamp workout in the gym, which has changed since COVID to a more free-form, less challenging workout, or go to Tai Chi? I chose the gym and it was fantastic. There was only one other woman and she was a monster so we had a killer session. I know, but it made me very happy. It made us all so happy that the teacher asked if we wanted to do it again on Saturday night. Fortunately the timing isn’t good, so it will remain a jewel in my memory.
We started the 45 minute workout late because of a payment snafu, so by the time I got down to the art room it was too late to join the origami class (next best thing to napkin folding on this trip). So I got my computer and did some blogging until it was time to go to the whale lecture, which was interesting as anything having to do with whales is, but not terribly well done. It had pictures and videos of whales though and I always like that.
Meanwhile Dave went to Coffee with Clare and learned about
the environmental engineering of the ship, including how they’ve managed to
take the average daily food waste per passenger from about 1.5 to about 0.4
kilos, which is then essentially composted and can be dumped in the ocean as
fish food if the ship is far enough out.
After the whales talk I went to origami class on time and made two origami whales which I am very proud of. Then I found Dave and we did some ship exploring and then had lunch. At our table was a couple who owned a house on High Street in Santa Cruz which they rent out for the school year while they go cruising or live in their travel trailer. Maybe Dave and I can rent our house to some Pacific University students and go for a world cruise.
After lunch more exploring and then it was blogging and off to Line Dancing practice with Clare. My partner from yesterday, Pam, found me and introduced me to her friend Janet and we had an absolute blast learning the Cupid Shuffle and 5-6-7-8, which we will dance at the Orange Day party on Saturday night. The class was HUGE.
Then it was time for more blogging on our veranda, where Dave found me after a peaceful afternoon of reading on the Promenade deck. We headed down to the future cruise desk and got ourselves signed up for the 35 day Hawaii & South Pacific cruise, after waiting out the people ahead of us who had to discuss every option for at least an hour (I left to take a shower, and Dave was just getting started when I got back).
Not much to report about dinner besides a lot of laughing with
Laura and Larry. We’ll be at the Pinnacle Grill tomorrow night, and they have a
cocktail party Sunday night, so it was our last dinner together. We’ll probably
see them in the Ocean Bar, where we like to hang out & listen to music. Which
we did, after going to see Steven Scott doing his “Catskill Comedy”, which was
less funny that his sketch comedy. It was an early bedtime – we pass under the
Golden Gate Bridge tomorrow morning at 6:30!
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