Sea Day Today

A sea day today, time to catch up with some e-mails and write some more Christmas cards – I’ve gotten 62 done so far, not quite half the number I brought with me and we’re down to the last few days of the voyage. Set up shop in the Wheelhouse Bar with laptop, pen & cards, and spent about 20% of the time answering the question “Are you REALLY writing your Christmas cards?” from my fellow passengers. They were in awe of me. In fact, maybe I’m a little bit in awe of me. No, never mind, can’t get a swelled head over Christmas cards.

Another 20% of the time was chatting with the Assistant Cruise Director. But I was still ambitious and wrote through the Veteran’s meeting, the Pictionary game (Princess calls it “Win, Lose or Draw”), and the afternoon Trivia Challenge. Definitely have a low grade case of writer’s cramp - am going to have to make the messages shorter unless I want to bring half of these cards back home with me. I DON'T plan to have room for them in my suitcase!

During this sailing I’ve added another talent to my skill set! If you should find yourself some day in desperate (and I DO mean desperate) need of a tropical bouquet I now know how to make hibiscus flowers from crepe paper. I’m not sure how much use I’ll get out of this or if it would be helpful in a lifeboat, but if you need a crepe paper hibiscus flower I’m currently the “go to girl”! Send in your orders early!


Since we were at sea today there were no really strange souvenirs. Here is yesterday’s runner up. Can you tell me what room in the house it belongs in?



I hear a treadmill calling my name.

Sea you later!