And into the weather we go – Day 263

by The Philosophical Fish

Not many photos today since it was mostly just open ocean and weather patterns. The elevator rug proclaimed he day of the week, which….as I mentioned….became weirdly useful as the week wore on.

Hanging over the rail at one point I was looking forward and trying to decide if I was looking towards land…or into weather.

Weather.

Not land.

We explored the breakfast options. Lots to choose from, everything appetizing….amazing considering I’m not really a breakfast person. This was probably a bad thing since I usually don’t eat anything until around 10am. Probably good that there is no scale in the room to remind me of that fact.

Although there is an app that tells us what’s available on the agenda each day, I really like the fact that a little newsletter arrives on the end of the bed each night that provides the same information. I still like a paper agenda and, much like the BC ferries, the internet isn’t really great and would be better if simply not available at all.

On that note, it took me about an hour yesterday evening to decide that the wifi was useless enough to not warrant any use. And that was somehow liberating. My photos could stay not he camera, I didn’t feel compelled to check emails, or Facebook. The blog could wait until I was home.

Epiphany.

I could read a book!

We took in a show – an excellent artist doing a John Denver tribute.

It was supposed to be a dance group, but the captain had announced that we were heading into some weather and the ship would be pitching this evening. So the dance performance would be rescheduled to another evening.

Good thing too, because pitch it did.

For the non-boaters.

Pitching is the for and aft movement of the boat. Think see-sawing. It’s the movement of the vessel across the axis in a forward up-down motion.

Rolling is a sideways circular back and forth motion. I tend to think this is the one that probably makes people seasick, but not being one who has ever been seasick…I’m guessing.

Yawing is a side to side movement, like an elephant weaving its head back and forth.

Oh did it pitch.

And it was kind of fun. It was dressy night for dinner, and we’d explored the main dining room, where we opted to eat dinner for the rest of the cruise, except for birthday night when we ate at the premium steakhouse restaurant on board. High heels and pitching vessel made for a walk to and from that included a lot of laughter. We both appreciated all the years of boating that contributed to an automatic balance correction for every step. Though I admit that navigating the staircases in three inch heels was amusing. Sometimes the step was where I expected it to be…sometimes it was closer, and sometimes much further away 🙃

We stopped in at one of the several drinking establishments, picked up a glass of wine, explored the library, the atrium, and found a piano bar…where we settled in to listen to an amazingly talented pianist. Eventually we wandered back to our room where we found a cute little polar bear on the end of our bed.

And that’s about all that day two on the ms Zaandam included.

And it was fabulously relaxing.

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