Paul's birthday Cruise Day 3 - Thursday 1 October 2015 - at sea.

Morning

Woke up to similar confusion about the time as with yesterday, but worse today because I hadn't advanced the time on all my electronic things.  The clocks were meant to go ahead another hour overnight, and I'm pretty sure that when I woke up it was around 7am based on this new time.  Paul was still sound asleep so I let him sleep on - I'm typing this about an hour and a half later; I've had breakfast and checked out the activities for the day ahead, and Paul is still asleep.

Afternoon

No real plans for today - we walked our 'mile and a bit' around the deck, lost a bit of money on the pokies, had some lunch, and are now lazing around reading - in the cabin / on the balcony.  It's a beautiful day today and really hard to believe that w're on the run from bad weather - up on the top deck quite a few people are in the swimming pools and more lazing around.  This is actually a pretty good ship for this sort of cruise - later in the season it will be really hot in the sun but there are quite a few places where you can laze around (and even swim) in the warmth but not in the direct sunlight.

A few more random comments about the ship so far

• I've got no idea where all the people are.  The ship is full, no question; they were boarding almost 2800 passengers in Sydney.  I was a bit concerned that we'd find ourselves desperately hunting for a seat particularly in the Horizon Court (the buffet) and the coffee shop downstairs, since these are regular trouble spots, but no such issues so far.
• Another 'Japanese' touch - like most Princess ships there's an icecream bar where you can get free soft serve icecream in a cone.  Often they only have two flavours - chocolate and vanilla.  Here there's a third flavour - green tea.  Yum.

Evening

Formal night tonight and we made the effort - Paul in suit and tie and me in (as I've talked about before) the sort of sparkly stuff that women agree to pretend is formal for the purposes of a cruise.
We finally went to our proper dining room and met our table companions - very nice people; no doubt I'll talk about them some more during the trip.
For now though, nothing much else to say, we're doing our best to do as little as possible, and succeeding!