We make our way back to Seattle today, and it was a sea day. We moved back to PST, which was just fine on a sea day. We just have less time being awake. I figured out that the women’s Euro finals are live on Sports 24, so I woke up in time to get breakfast at the buffet and went back to the cabin to watch it. It went to overtime and then penalties, so I didn’t leave the cabin again until 11:30, almost time for lunch. During the game I packed away stuff I knew I wouldn’t need for the next two days, and it was time consuming because the vacuum bags take some effort to compress.
The buffet was packed for lunch; La Prof. and I only managed to find a table out on the terrace, where it was slightly cold. But we enjoyed our lunch. Afterwards, we went to a spot that’s open to the outside but surrounded on three sides, thus has fresh air but no wind, to read. We call it “LPCR’s daughter’s spot” because that’s where she liked to hang out too. We then went back to the cabin to change and went to a dance class taught by the assistant cruise director who came up as a dancer. We hadn’t taken group classes for a long time, so it was fun. The class was on a jive and rock routine, but appropriately targeted to the cruise’s age group, so we had fun. We returned to the cabin afterwards to cool down. We were planning to get afternoon tea afterwards, but were so tired that we just sat in the room and balcony reading until it was time for the production show. The show was great - we had talked to one of the singers beforehand and they said this was a new show that they rehearsed for a month on land before trying out at sea, and it was a lot of intricate singing and dancing routines, so I was impressed they put it together in such a short time.
Dinner followed, and LPCR’s husband managed to get a buffet table before the buffet started, so we went to meet him there. Just as we arrived, the ship went through an area with lots of whales… easily two dozen. There were whales ahead, to the sides of, and behind the ship. Everywhere you looked there were spouts. The sun was out also, which makes it very easy to spot the spouts. Some of the restaurant’s staff even went out to the terrace to look. Some of the whales came pretty close within 100 yards to the ship. Some of them breached, which resulted in big splashes, and you can see them even if they were far away. I think I saw one breaching 4 times in quick succession. The naturalist announced from the bridge where the whales were, and we were running from one side of the ship to the other, it was like the “castle ping-pong” we did in Middle Rhine. There were so many whales around us I was worried we may hit one by accident. The only regret was that this is one of the few times I didn’t bring my binoculars with me on the ship.
The impromptu whale-watching delayed our dinner for 15 minutes, but even after then, the buffet was surprisingly empty. A big contrast from lunch. We stayed there till 9:30 playing a pictograph game La Professeure found. After that, I went up to the coffee bar (which was
already close and thus empty) to write and to watch the sunset. Unfortunately there was cloud cover where the sun was setting, so we didn’t get to see it.
I can see sea days would get old very fast, especially if you don’t do a lot of activities on shore when you have the opportunity to. I’m pretty sure I would want to take a cruise with more than 2 consecutive sea days.
There is one clear spout near the wake, but another further off.
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