Our position at noon today.
There is definitely "motion in the ocean" ever since we left San Francisco yesterday evening. We have not experienced seas this rough in a long time. They secured our balcony furniture and the pool chairs. Today we have 40 knot winds and 18 foot swells which is causing the bumpy ride.
Last night before retiring Rebecca put our room service for breakfast request out on our door. Our butler brought it at 8 am but we decided to go down to the dining room instead. The Compass Rose dining room is down on deck 5 and the ride down there is MUCH better than up on deck 10 where our suite is. On days like today it dramatically illustrates that, if you are subject to sea sickness, get a cabin on lower deck and mid ship! I am now in the library on deck 6 as it is much more comfortable here than up in our suite. I doubt if our ride will improve today so glad we will be docking tomorrow in Astoria, Oregon.
At 10 am we went to the theater to listen to Terry Breen's lecture on Alaska. I swear she is a walking encyclopedia on both Alaska and South America. We met and became friends with her on our 2012 Circle South America cruise. Her lectures adds so much to our cruise experience.
This is Terry after her lecture.
They are showing a movie in the theater this afternoon which I may go to. Better than bumping around in our suite. Tonight is the Captain's Welcome Aboard party and dinner. We will be dining with Goran, the F&B Director, and Rose-Mary, the head of housekeeping, this evening in Compass Rose. We ran into the Cruise Director, Lorraine, this morning and she also wants to dine with us something during the cruise. We know her from previous cruises also.
Our stewardess, Rose Marie, is on left and her supervisor.
From left is Alin, Prime 7 Manager, Dino, the Executive Chef, and Goran, F&B Director.
At 5:00 pm our butler delivered some "poppers" (jalapeno peppers stuffed with cheese then deep fried) and a Manhattan for me. Bottle of chardonnay for Rebecca. Ship is moving around so much that I figured I could stand up better if I had alcohol. Getting dressed now for dinner is not easy with suite bouncing around.
