Sea Day - March 23

Well, normally I use the information from the daily Patter to let you know the ships’ course and what bodies of water we are sailing through, but with the new Cruise Director the Patter has been completely rearranged. They no longer include that information. There is a lot of white space and things just spread out on the cover and the print inside with the schedule has gone so small that many of us can’t read it even with the reading glasses. Of course, we are told it was a fleet-wide corporate decision to make these changes.

Greg won $55 at Bingo bringing our collective total to $2,145. Whoo Hoo!

The lunch theme was Asian at the buffet, so we skipped the dining room today so Greg could get his sushi. I enjoyed the Spring Rolls.

Sammi, the new Cruise Director, loves to make announcements. She announces things that are in the daily Patter and there should be no need to interrupt people’s days with that. She made one early this morning and again later in the day. The worst timing was during dinner when she came on to tell us what was going on in the evening. It’s in the Patter and quite annoying to have these frequent announcements. Normally, the only announcements are the Captain and the Bridge speaks briefly when it’s noon. Otherwise there are none unless there is an emergency or a whale or dolphin siting. So, it’s annoying to have these announcements because most of us think it’s something “important” and it’s just telling us what we can read in the Patter. One of the biggest complaints of some of the cruise lines is the frequent announcements, which is why some of us cruise certain lines instead of others. (of course, there are other reasons as well)

The entertainment tonight was David Crathorne with another great performance.

I have added a few more photos to my Web Albums site. The internet has been really slow the last couple of days. I added Taiwan and then realized I need to pare down the number of photos for each port and I will put the full albums up after we return home. So, I have also added some for Hong Kong to Xian, Terracotta Warriors and Pandas at Chengdu. Tomorrow, I hope to add Sanya, Singapore and Thailand. That leaves Cochin & Mumbai, India and the 3 days in the UAE. All of the videos will need to be done once we are home as well. Greg says they just hang up and won’t upload.

Only 4 more Sea Days before Jordan.