1st day at Sea

January 20^th

A nice night sleep with a gentle roll on a vessel is good.  It makes for a nice start to the day.  Seas during the evening calmed down to smooth sailing.  Not much to see outside but loads to do inside.  Terrie and I laughed at ourselves as we sat down to map out our day plan.  What to do at 9, 10,11 etc.?  What deck is it on and how do we find our way around.  Our ship isn’t one of the new mega cruise liners but big enough for us to have to think about how we are getting around.  And yes we missed a few things on the calendar but in all we had time for most things.

We are finding ourselves going through computer and phone withdrawal.  Little or no connection makes for nervous hands.  How many times we laughed as we reached for a non-working phone.  I even decided to wear mine as a security blanket.  Seems to calm the nerves even if it isn’t on.  Terrie is having texts-attacks.  Fits and spasms of reaching for a phone to text something but stopping in mid air because it isn’t on.  We will learn…..maybe.

Terrie’s day included a cooking demonstration and I wandered into a jewelry talk.

I think I should have taken up cooking.  Her recipe looks great but mine cost me a bit.  (All good she liked it).  But there was time to try and unwind.  We sat outside by the pool and enjoyed the drink of the day and a Tiger.  Just go to Singapore and you will know what a Tiger is and it isn’t a kitty cat.

The cruise line offered us a free night in the upgrade restaurant so we kicked off the cruise with a special dinner and nice wine.  Always a welcome treat to get things started.  Oh and did I mention it was formal night.  Terrie was stunning and I clean up nice.  Pic’s  to follow.

These days are so stressful that we turned in and sailed smoothly and quietly into the darkness excited to be arriving in Vietnam by morning.