Well, I didn't top up the Travacalm with champagne, but just the same I slept quite late - at least for me.
We got up and had breakfast and then went to have a look at today's "sale" in the ship's store - today it was designer watches. Lots of nice ones but nothing I really liked, so I didn't buy any.
We went and had a look at the photos that were taken yesterday and I was surprised and pleased - a number of them have turned out really nicely.
We then wandered down to the Casino to lose some money on the pokies. While we were there, the captain made a really disappointing announcement - due to the weather conditions, we will not be able to stop in at Newfoundland either. So, today is Saturday, and we're going to be at sea continuously until next Friday morning. He's going to wait around here - to the east of Greenland and therefore sheltered from the worst of the weather - for as long as he can, and then make a dash for New York.
This is really disappointing as we had some interesting shore excursions booked for Newfoundland, and to be honest, 6 days straight at sea is a little bit more that even I can completely enjoy. However, there's no other choice - it's a bit too far to jump overboard and swim to Greenland :-) I guess I'll be catching up on my reading - I've got a book to read about the Civil War which of course features in a few of the places we're going on the next leg of our travels. And, although the internet access here is slow and expensive, it's good enough to allow me to buy more books for my Kindle, so I certainly won't die of boredom or anything!
There are also plenty of 'events' happening but to be honest Paul and I don't usually take part in too many of them. However, there is a series of 'enrichment' lectures going on. There's a man who used to work for the Los Angeles District Attorney office giving talks about forensics - he's not too bad at giving talks so I'll go to the others as well.
Tonight is 'formal night' so Paul and I will have to make a vague attempt at dressing up, as we want to eat in the dining room tonight.
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