Tuesday morning we awoke to some rough water. I ate breakfast okay about 8am, and then Karen and David showed up, she kind of green. She had some fruit but didn’t feel like anything else at that point. I then went back to our room, & just plain felt lousy and laid down. I never got really sick or vomited but I wasn’t able to eat lunch. Wendy of course had no problems whatsoever. So I had her go get me some Meclamine (dramamine like) pills from the infirmary which helped. Then I forced myself to go out on deck and get some air. I walked around the deck a couple times, then laid down on a deck chair at the stern in some sunshine, which felt great, and slept a little bit. I went back to the room and watched a movie and by dinner time I was feeling better. Wendy spent time around the ship as if in calm water. She booked us both for the next days Mixology class is the Mix bar.
At dinner I was able to eat a little in the dining room with Mary and Wendy. Cold Watermelon Gaspacho and a mushroom ravioli. Both were mild enough for a sour stomach. And some ginger ale. This day had originally been scheduled for fully formal attire in the dining room, but due to the rough water, they changed it to formal optional, not wanting to encourage ladies with high heals to be unstable walking on the pitching and rolling boat. So I changed into “nice casual” clothes and never needed the sport coat and tie I brought with me.
There were some people that had been on the boat for anywhere from 30 to 60+ days, who’d said this was the roughest it had been. We figured half the boat was seasick. Our family had 3 consecutive rooms on deck 2 in the front third of the ship, rooms 2540, 42, & ours 44. The water was rough enough to pitch the front of the boat up and down with some shuddering vibrations and waves splashing by past our window, and occasional side to side rolling. It wasn’t scary really, but I kept thinking how impressively powerful the sea is to make a 700 foot 56,000 ton vessel pitch and roll like it did. The captain made an announcement at one point to say he slowed down to 15 knots to go easy on the ship, and that the winds were expected to ease into the evening.
Wendy & I spent our evening, 9-11pm, at the piano bar where I just had ginger ale for the evening. Lots of laughs with Michael Sara the pianist and other patrons, and by 11pm I was hungry. We departed for the Lido buffet for the late night snack, where I had two plates of shrimp, ham wrapped asparagus, and dessert. We went to our room at 12am ready for bed, and I slept well despite the continued rolling, albeit somewhat less.
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