Rexie and Rexcat

Rexie and Rexcat
Rexie and Rexcat standing in front of the monastery at Montserrat

Friday, May 18, 2018

Sea Days - six in a row

After leaving Vigo, Spain we have six sea days in a row before getting to Halifax. We have never had that many sea days in a row ever before. It is very different and challenging for the crew to keep us all entertained.

Both of us are sleeping so much. I never thought I could sleep that much, but we are.

The other day, we celebrated Mother's Day on Board. Each woman received a special dessert at dinner.


We have been going to the morning show each day where the Cruise Director, Mike Pack, talks about the ship and what is going on. We have come to really enjoy him and believe him to be a great Cruise Director. He is funny.

We are going to many of the shows and the other night we went to hear Chuck Wagner. Chuck has been in movies and many different Broadway shows. His show was awesome, but even more so for Rexie. Chuck picked her to sing "If ever I Would Leave You" from Camelot.

I was so dumbfounded that I forgot to take a picture while it was happening. Anyhow, Rexie enjoyed it tremendously.


We have also been watching some of the events occurring throughout the ship. One of the more interesting was the egg-drop event. Here, each team had a chance to drop their egg after packing it inside some protection (had one minute to wrap it) from the 5th floor to the 3rd floor. They then had five seconds to unpack it and see if the egg survived or not.

Because of the limited time allowed to pack and unpack the egg, many failed to survive. However it was amazing how many actually made it and the different forms the packing material took. Here is one with a parachute attached. It survived.


The crew are working so hard for us. We told our room steward, Frank, to not make us any more towel animals because we had seen them all before and wanted to let him do a little less work.

However, Rexie is now into elephants and her son, who is also on this cruise, bought her a elephant picture frame for Mother's Day. (see second photo). So, I asked Frank to make Rexie an elephant some day when he had a few moments. Here is what he did. It was brilliant to put it in her shoes. She loved it!

Now, both elephants have a friend until the end of the cruise.

That is all for now. Another Sea Day and then Halifax.

I must be off!

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