Second installment

This day 8 at sea, and yesterday we successfully posted or rather published the first installment of this blog.  It was easy, we went to settings and there it was, we entered our name and created a password then our key number and bingo, $19.95 for one hour.  But luckily we can use it as we need it, it counts down.  Right now we have about 40 minutes left !  So we really could have done it earlier and managed our time and not published such a big blog at one time.  

Anyway, thank you guys for responding, so we know that you got it and the blogging works !!  Keep emailing us, our email comes in every time we get on line to publish on this blog.

We got a little bit of a sea this morning, about 4' to 6' waves, the ship moves a little more from side to side.  Nice.  The weather is cooler and the sea a little rougher with more wind, but very nice, barely noticing the movement.

One of the stewards tells me that tonight we will be able to see Portugal.  Well, it takes about 10 or so days to reach land, say Gibraltar, and from there another couple of days to Barcelona.  So today sometime we will have done 8/12 of the trip or about ⅔, so it stands the reason !  

Just saw another one of those lone, low flying sea birds, dark on the top and light on the bottom, skimming the waves !  And there was even a rainbow in the distance near the horizon.  

I go to b'fast between 7:30 and 8:30 in the large Windjammer Buffet and sit there and eat, and at about 10 to 10:30 Geneva comes up from our deck 11 to the buffet on deck 16 and when one of our steward sees her, he takes her by the hand and brings her to where I am sitting.  

I'm sitting in the Promenade Cafe, waiting for Geneva, she went down to the cabin to get her one-eyed contact lens drops.  At 2:30pm we are doing to see the broadway play "Hairspray" again, they had put it only one time, the evening we left Florida.  Then people complained and they put it on one more time.

The other real fun thing to do on the ship is to talk to other passengers they tell you their story and we tell them ours.  When ever we sit down at a table in the many Promenade or Central Park Cafés, we always sit at a table where an other couple is already sitting.  Or we invite another couple to sit with us.  You most of the time hear the most interesting stories.  Our young dining room steward is from the Philippines, from a large family, when he went home, at the end of one of his contracts recently, his brother had committed suicide and two months later his mother died !!  After that he didn't want to go home on his next leave.  What a sad story tho.  

We are sitting in the Theater at 2:30pm and the Broadway Show "Hairspray" is about to start.  ---  It was funny and well done, too loud tho.  As we were going out to look at the weather, . . . . there in the distance, to the north, were the Azores Islands !!!  The first land sighting since Florida.  

We are sitting with a couple, our age, from England, they got married in Las Vegas, second marriage, 14 years ago !!  We meet a lot of folks that cruise a lot, one couple is an their 62nd cruise, but not all a along as this one.  Another couple cruised around the world, four months, shish !!  They know of some one who has done that for the forth time. Shish, shish !!!

Dinner tonight was just as good as last night.  I had a creamy pea soup, Steak Diane and Key Lime sherbet as desert.  Yum !  Tomorrow, day nine at sea, we turn our watches one hour forward for the last time.  

More later.