The ship was rocking and rolling all night again. In fact I felt off colour enough to take a couple of travel sickness tablets, which is a rare thing for me after the first day or so of a cruise. It may not have been travel sickness anyway, dinner last night was heavier than usual and I stupidly crashed on the bed to watch a movie not long after dinner. Hard to imagine for someone on a cruise, but I many have actually eaten too much :-)
We woke up this morning at around 6am and then fell asleep again - in the end it was almost 10am before we were both awake. We went up to Horizon Court for breakfast - it's served unti 11:30 - and we thought that it might be quiet up there by that time, but no such thing - it was as busy as it is earlier in the day.
We had breakfast and then went for our usual coffee downstairs - very crowded there too, but then it's quite reasonable to expect people might be having a morning tea sort of coffee by that time of day.
We then went into the Casino to lose some money on the pokies. Both of us made it almost back to our cabin before we realised that we had started off the morning with me carrying a Kindle and Paul carrying his tablet computer and neither of those items were with us! Paul rescued his from the poker machine where it was still waiting for him; I rescued my Kindle from the lost and found desk.
This was enough to make us realise that further resting was in order so we spent most of the rest of the daylight hours lazing around. The only exception was lunch - the classic Australian meat pie and chips, topped up with the not quite so Australian 'green tea ice cream in a cone'.
We finished off the day with dinner at another of the specialty restaurants - this time the Italian inspired "Sabatinis". We're convinced that their booking program had gone marginally insane, because they told us, and the couple in front, that we weren't booked for that day even though we were all quite sure we were. Wasn't a problem anyway; they weren't booked out so we all got to eat there. But then they decided to sing happy birthday to Paul and give him one of the chocolate mousse cakes that they do for birthdays, even though it's not his birthday until next week and we told them so. And, just as we were leaving, the man at the table beside us said that it was his birthday - hopefully he didn't think we had stolen his chocolate cake.....
Over the next couple of days I'll post some pictures and details about our cabin.
When you walk in the door, the first thing on your right is this - shelves and hangers for clothes. There is a door on the front of the shelves but it has a full length mirror and you don't really want to see a photo of me taking a photo.
On the right is the door to the tiny but functional bathroom.
Basin and some shelves
Toilet and towel racks
Shower
The shower cubicle is really small - the bathmat you see here is a normal sized small bathmat.
There are people on the ship who can't physically use these showers because of the small size - I gather they have to use the ones in the gym which are apparently larger than the ones in the cabins.
And one final shot - this is the same bathmat on the floor, showing just how little space there really is.
Mind you, it's not the smallest bathroom I've ever seen, I'd guess it's at least 50% bigger than the bathroom in our hotel in Copenhagen, where there was no separate shower cubicle at all, the floor of the bathroom was the floor of the shower.....
Just one final note - don't assume there's nothing much to do on cruise ships just because I don't write about doing too many things. That's just our choice, but if you want to you can spend all day running around the ship watching and doing things. I'll see if I can post an example of a day's activities just to give you an idea.
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