Second Sea Day

Our second day at sea we were steaming somewhere between Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland . Still cool and foggy out there.

So we stayed inside and did various on board things. I went to a couple of Explorer series lectures: one was on the 3 ports we would be seeing- Corner Brook, Red Bay, and Nanortalik, Greenland; the second was about the early years of Winston Churchill and his rise to fame as both an army officer and a writer of books and for newspapers. Both were very interesting and covered a lot of ground.

After lunch I went to a Cruise Critic Roll Call camera club meeting- the cameras there were well above my point and shoot. I then hurried off to a 2pm wine tasting expecting to meet Deen there. Sat with Bonnie and Geoff from North Vancouver and had lovely time tasting 3 reds and 2 whites. No Deen....... She was in a cooking class that didn't finish until after 3pm and then she joined me at the wine tasting which sadly for her was over - luckily there will be more! Her cooking class she very much enjoyed and thought the people there were all a hoot. She thought that even I (a non -cook) would enjoy it.Again luckily this too will be repeated.

A nap was next on the agenda and that took us up to dinner time. Our dinner companions, Keese and Henny from Victoria and Diane from Vancouver are all very experienced cruisers ( 4 star Mariners) and are fascinating to talk to. We went with Diane to the Ocean Bar for post dinner drinks and even sat with the band for a while - 3 guys from Las Vegas who now make their career playing on cruise ships. ( NB to Ron G- one of the band uses his iPad for his music as you did). They'll be doing a world cruise starting in January as is Diane, all on board the ms Amsterdam.

One of the interesting aspects of the Ocean Bar is all the single women who gather there for dancing. The ship has 4 male social hosts whose job is to dance with the ladies gathered there. There are an amazing number of single passengers ,mostly older women.


Pictured below are Deen on the right and Abra from Washington state on the left. Abra is the Roll Call organizer.



This next photo is Mike and Neesh from New Hampshire and was taken on the formal night with pre drinks in the Crows Nest bar at the top and front of the ship. Mike is also known as Saltdog or Salty and is a fellow blogger and an actual working engineer.



Later today I 'll do a a separate posting of our day in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

From RCD's iPad

Location:Gulf of St. Lawrence