Day 94: A Successful Escape from Butcher Bay, Davin Has a Monkey Moment, and I Have a Blond One! (10/14/2010)

We got up at 11:30am today (7:30am ship time). We had a quick breakfast up at the buffet. We ate the usual, cinnamon rolls for me, and an omelet for Davin. We sat out on the deck to eat.

Back in the room, I wrote the update for yesterday. Then I played Riddick: Escape from Buther Bay. I beat it in the afternoon. I estimate that it took me about 14 hours. It really wasn’t difficult at all. I even double checked to make sure I was playing on hard just to make sure! It’s a pretty fun game. Davin continues to work on his RPG. He tried to start Riddick but the sound is bugged. It keeps cutting out, or isn’t synched with the action (in cut scenes). So he will put off playing the game until later.

For lunch we grabbed some food from the buffet and brought it back to our room. Then we watched a Voyager while we ate.

Next, we went for our walk around the ship. We stuck to brisk walking because Davin is worried about overdoing it and hurting ourselves. He says it would be pretty stupid to end up incapacitated when we still have a lot of walking and sightseeing to do. We discussed Riddick and the other computer games we’ve been playing lately.

When we returned to our room, I started playing Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. I’m enjoying it so far. It seems a little more challenging than Butcher Bay. Davin continued to work on his RPG.

For dinner we went to the buffet and had spaghetti marinara. We ate and discussed more at a table looking out over the vast open sea. Then we walked up to deck 12 and looked around. When we returned to our room, Davin took the elevator, and I took the stairs. I went down one flight and waited for D’s elevator to arrive. It said it arrived at deck 10, but the doors never opened. I waited, and waited, and waited, all the while wondering what was wrong with the elevator. It was a very blond moment. I’m sure all my readers have already noticed that 12 minus 1 is NOT 10. Imagine my chagrin when an embarrassing several minutes goes by and my eye caught a glimpse of the gigantic 11 next to the elevator doors. ‘Oh, yea.’ I thought to myself, ‘We were on deck 12, not 11!’ OOPS! No wonder the elevator on deck 10 never opened here! I ran down one more flight of stairs, and found Davin headed back to the room. When I never showed up, he figured I’d gone ahead of him back to the room. Anyway, only worth sharing because it’s funny how stupid I was. Hehehe.

I played some more Riddick, and D worked some more on his RPG. Then we watched one Voyager, and went to bed at 1:30am. The ship’s time changed one last time, so we actually went to bed at 8:30pm.