Day 9: At Sea (7/20/2010)

Woke up around 11:30am. The NEW 11:30am. Every day the hour advances one hour forward, so it’s not really as late as the time would make it seem. We got ready for the day at a leisurely pace and then headed down to deck two to get complimentary tickets to the day’s Planetarium film. We chose to take tickets for the 2:00pm film. Then we went back up to deck 7 to find something to eat. Since I was in a breakfast mood I decided to have a crepe with hot strawberries on top. I’d never had a crepe before, and it was quite good. Davin decided to have one as well, though he was not really hungry yet.

After we finished eating it was about time to go see the 23 minute Planetarium film. The film was about Cosmic Collisions and was pretty interesting though the computer graphics seemed a bit out of date.

When the film was finished, Davin was finally ready to eat, so we went back to the deck 7 buffet to have lunch. We had some turkey and cheese sandwiches made for us at the Chef’s Galley.

Next we went back to our room to get my camera and then went up the to the top of the ship, deck 12, to play shuffleboard outside. Davin said playing shuffleboard is one of the quintessential activities of being on a cruise ship. We took pictures of each other, and used the timer function of the camera to get a picture of us together while we played. This was for our daily picture. While playing we learned that we completely, and utterly SUCK at shuffleboard. After about a half hour of play, I had only scored twice. Davin had tied up with me, and would have actually scored two more times, but the only thing I seem to have a talent for in shuffleboard is for knocking my opponent’s scoring pucks out of the scoring boxes. So, we ended up tying for 14 points when we decided we’d had enough of the game.

We returned to our room to put my camera away and grabbed our swim suits. We then returned to deck 12 to go in the jacuzzi. The jacuzzi was disappointingly luke warm, no where near a suitable temperature for a jacuzzi. Still it was relaxing to sit in the water chatting about mindless things, and watching the endless blue sea scroll by.

After our soak, we returned to our room to watch Star Trek: Voyager. Or Davin watched Voyager while I wrote the updates for the 18th and 19th of July. Then around 7pm we made our way over to the gym to do our weightlifting. It had been a week since Davin last lifted, and more for me. We were able to do our bench press and over head press using dumbells, and we used machines to simulate squats and pull ups. We then walked 3 laps around the ship on the outdoor track which is the equivalent of a mile.

Then we returned to our room to watch more Voyager. At 9:30 we went to the buffet dinner, and at 10:30 we made our way to the Illuminations/Planetarium theater to watch the movie Invictus on their big screen. It was an excellent movie, but a horrible theater. The screen was in 4:3 instead of 16:9 and they must have had the contrast set at 200% because anything white looked washed out and blinding. We still enjoyed the movie however, despite these technical problems.

When the movie finished we returned to our room and went to bed at the NEW 1:45am.