Day 4 - At Sea

 

Date:  Jan. 12, 2007

 

Location:  At Sea – Going Down the Lesser Antilles

 

Next Port:  Bridgetown, Barbados, Jan. 13

 

Quick Summary:  Cloudy with spots of sunshine and a couple of showers, still quite windy and rough waters. First formal night.

 

Report:  Larry went down to the gym early and got in his full exercise routine. Karen also spent some time there. We still were able to enjoy breakfast outside behind the La Veranda where few cruisers have realized how sheltered and protected it is.  We also enjoy our lunches out there.

 

Larry spent some time with Marco in the computer room. He is still having some issues, but apparently much of it has to do with the slowness of AOL’s service. We still haven’t been able get pictures to load into our AOL journal.

 

Then it was off to the second South American lecture. Niki Sepsas highlighted some of the geography and history of the four ports in Brazil we will be visiting next week. Karen stayed for a follow-on presentation by Joyce Middlebrook on the 12 movies that have been done on the Phantom of the Opera. Larry may have stopped by the Casino enroute to get his book…and just might have pocketed $80 of winnings on the slots…nice to start out the trip playing with the ship’s money.

 

After lunch, we found some lounge chairs on the wide protected deck behind the Horizon Lounge.  There we read and napped.

 

Last night was the Captain’s Reception and our first of 19 formal nights. It was held in the 7-deck high Atrium. Capt. Dag was in good form. He handles his “protocol” duties as smoothly as he “drives” the ship.

 

He did explain that we might be forced to by pass St. Helena, the island in the middle of the South Atlantic, as we head towards Africa. It is quite out of the way and is only a planned four-hour stop. He says we will be bucking the currents over to Africa and doesn’t want to get in late to Walvis Bay, Namibia.  Regent has planned a special dinner in the desert there for everyone.

 

We enjoyed dinner in Compass Rose with Sherry and George, from St. Petersburg, a couple we had met in Miami earlier in the week. Then we saw the show, “Lullaby of Broadway,” with the ship’s singers and dancers.

 

Afterwards, I tried to get Skype to work…but was not successful in reaching our kids by either a computer-to-computer connection or by computer-to-phone. It appeared the connection was being blocked by the ship’s Internet connection. I will have to talk to Marco.

 

We passed by St. Kitts and Nevis as we were dressing for dinner…we’re in Barbados tomorrow.

 

Karen and Larry