Early this morning, while looking out the window I saw dolphins! I woke Heather up to show her and we watched as the dolphins played in the wake of the ship. Our cabin is on Deck 1 and towards the front of the ship, so we had an excellent view. It was cool! Unfortunately, by the time I got my camera out they were gone. From now on I’m going to be on a dolphin watch and have my camera ready!
So we’ve been on this ship for two and half days now and have getting into a routine. When we get up, we head to the gym and get our workouts in. Then, immediately we’d go to the Lido deck to get a light post-workout meal. I usually keep it simple; fruit, cereal, yogurt, etc. Then we’d come back to the room and shower and go back for our “real” breakfast. Since I’m not working out as long as Heather is this week, I usually go to breakfast by myself at the Empire dining room. I discovered that they have some really tasty baked apples. With the open seating, you end up sitting with different people each meal. I’ve met some really interesting folks. I sat with one woman who’s boyfriend’s was named after Yul Brenner. So there are at least two Uhl/Yul’s on the ship!
After my breakfast I’d usually meet up with Heather and hang out with her while she ate her breakfast. Then we’d go hang out by the pool. We’d eat lunch at some point, then head back to the room. They have TV’s in each cabin and they have a limited number of channels. While channel surfing yesterday, I caught what looked to be The Flying Scotsman…and it was! There are three channels which they continuously show three different movies each day. So we got to the room last night in time to watch the evening showing. Not a bad movie, but the cycling scenes weren’t very realistic.
Then by the evening we’d go to dinner then either go to a show or hang out in our cabin. Last night was “Formal Night” so we got all dressed up and headed to dinner. I brought my beat up old, gray suit (the only suit I own) and Heather borrowed a dress from her mother. Dinner was excellent, yet again.
Tonight being Halloween, a lot of people in costume for dinner. Even our little niece got involved! After dinner we went to the costume contest and some people really went to town! After the contest we went to the dance club and danced a little bit then decided to head to bed.