Sea Days

 

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 

We are just completing 4 continuous days “at sea”. What happens on sea days? For us, we are up at our usual time somewhere around 5:30 a.m. Sometimes we fix a cup of coffee in the room, sometimes we go up to the World Café where they have a nifty coffee machine that you can access 24/7. You have many choices of just how you want your coffee or tea. If we do go up to the World Café, we typically opt for a latte. 

Then we do our morning stretches on the floor of the cabin. There isn’t a lot of room, but enough to get the job done. We try to get a walk around the walking track on deck 2 where one lap is equal to ¼ mile. We are trying to increase our number of laps, but it is often dependent on how much roll we are picking up from the seas. 

For the last several days, we have had absolutely beautiful sailing weather. The seas have been calm with mostly clear skies. The seas were often almost glassy. 

One evening, we dined at the Chef’s Table. It was the “Mexican” menu. 3 out of the 5 courses were underwhelming. The kitchen here does a great job with Asian spices frequently with a fair amount of heat. The Mexican dishes seem to be bland. The mole with short rib was very good and the dessert exceptional. Some of the best chocolate we’ve ever had.

 

 

We said goodbye to our Christmas decorations, and placed a new decoration on our door. Since we’ll be visiting Hawaii and then Polynesia during January, the tropical flowers seemed appropriate.

We also watched a beautiful sunrise this morning from pitch dark to the sun rising out of the sea. We were just off the shore of Manzanillo, Mexico and were close enough to see the mountains. 

Then we finished out the day with a beautiful moonrise. I think we are just one day away from a full moon.

 

Tomorrow we are due into Cabo San Lucas and are looking forward to hopefully seeing some whales.