New Zealand Cruise Day 3 - another sea day

Another big day of absolutely nothing at all - wake up; go and eat; laze around; go and eat; laze around; go and eat; laze around; go to sleep (well, I haven't done that last bit yet.)  Tomorrow though, we start 7 straight days of going ashore - so there'll be a lot less lazing around.  Tomorrow is the Bay of Islands and there may even be pictures in the next blog entry!.
Anyway, tonight was 'Elegant Night' - most cruise lines allocate a few nights per cruise to this sort of idea.  Some other cruise lines call it 'Formal Night'.  Basically, you're not supposed to be out and about - and specifically not in the Main Dining Room - unless you're formally dressed.
And, on cruise related forums, there's a constant low-level stream of complaints about cruise lines not enforcing formal dressing. For example, on our last cruise (on the Coral Princess) we went into the dining room on a couple of formal nights, and got more that one filthy look because Paul didn't have a suit coat on and because I was dressed somewhere around 'dinner at a good restaurant' style - which is nowhere near 'formal' enough.
However, they've advertised widely that they've "Aussified" the Carnival Spirit, and this is one place where it shows.  This time there was no need for Paul and I to try to fit 10 weeks worth of clothes into our suitcases, so Paul has brought a suit along, and I'm still basically dressed the same as on the Coral Princess.  But, based on the people we saw at dinner, if anything we were overdressed.   The Aussie standard for formal dress suits me just fine!
In fact, so far it seems to me that the Aussified Carnival Spirit is my sort of ship.  Unfortunately the places it goes are currently REALLY limited.  This year is its first full season in Australia, and apart from three trips to New Zealand (this is the first one) they are going exclusively to the South Pacific - and Paul and I really have seen enough "tropical island paradises" over the last few years.  So, no matter how much we enjoy it, we aren't likely to cruise on this ship again unless they start taking it to other places.