Sixth Day of Cruise — At Sea
The cruise goes through two time zones — one for Spain, France and Italy, and the other for Greece and Turkey. Today is the first sea day (no port, at sea all day), and it falls between Naples, Italy, and Mykonos, Greece. So they had us shift our clocks ahead for the time change today. But since we are at sea, and could sleep in, it didn’t make any difference.
We slept in, got up about 8:30, and got to Windows about 9:40 to dine for Breakfast (Breakfast seating only goes to 10 a.m.). After that the kids went their separate ways, and I went to the pool to swim, while Betsy went to a presentation on emeralds at the jewelry shop, since she had put her name into a raffle to win some jewelry.
It was the best time of day to swim. There was another guy swimming laps, so I joined him, and managed to swim 20 laps — 10 each freestyle and breaststroke alternating. I didn’t have people swimming right in front of me until the last 3 laps or so.
I hit the hot tub after that, then sat down to do some reading. Betsy joined for awhile (She didn’t win the raffle, but had guessed the fake jewel correctly), and then I swam again before we went back to the room.
Isaac told us that Mom and Dad wanted to do lunch with us in the dining room, just the 4 of us, so Betsy did a tour of the ship for them, and we arranged to meet at 12:30 in Windows.
After lunch Betsy and I took a nap, then I went swimming again while she wrote on the Raffles Terrace. I joined her after my swim for some reading, then we headed to the room to get ready for tonight’s 7 p.m. dress up dinner at Windows.
(I should insert here that you have to “dress up” a bit to dine in the dining rooms, but tonight was the one night Mom and Dad wanted us all to really dress up and dine together.)
Windows had told mom that they couldn’t make a reservation at 7 p.m., so we just planned to show up. When we got there, Mom and Dad were there, and we were waiting for the Gillespies to arrive. Mom told us they had said they would have to seat us at two tables, but when we finally got inside, dad had arranged so we got one table, though we still had to wait a few minutes for it.
I ordered a chicken and seafood panella that was surprisingly good with its assortment of seafood — shrimp, mussels, etc.
On the way back Betsy and I walked the Promenade on the Starboard side. Just before we entered mid-ship, a fit older gentleman there came up to me and said, “pardon me sir, I don’t know you, but you look very sharp,” to which I said thank you.
Betsy said, “I’m the one that is supposed to be saying that to you.”
During dinner everyone else mentioned going to the show tonight — Duo Amaury — so we decided to go see the gymnastic ballet.
They had a lot of costume changes. Most of hers were form-fitting body suits with exposed right shoulder, while his went from sweats and tuxedos, to shirtless with tights or boxer shorts.
Betsy noted how strong they both were, and that the guy had an interesting curvature to his spine.
At The Rainbow 