Day at Sea

Friday May 16

This morning was our first day at sea on this cruise so we took advantage of it and had a good sleep in to help us catch up after the early starts we've had on the last 3 days. Princess Cruises have a lot of organized activities so we joined the Buchanans and Brooks for the "Hole in 1" competition. Burgess holed one on the short hole but the winners holed the long distance hole so Burgess missed out.

After lunch there was a Champagne Ring Toss. Burgess had already won a bottle of champers in this competition on Day 1 so we had every confidence in him winning us another for our "happy hour" and he didn't disappoint. Al went close with his first two rings then was successful with his third so he also won a bottle so that takes care of another happy hour.

Tonight is the first formal night and before dinner the Captain hosted a Champagne Waterfall Party with the drinks on him! There were 365 glasses in the waterfall and you could help pour some champagne into them and have your photo taken with the Maître d' Hotel at the same time. The queue was too long for us to be bothered so we watched and enjoyed the nibbles and drinks.

The Maître 'd Hotel starts pouring the champagne

The Captain introduced his chief officers and made the welcome speech then we left for dinner. The food is very good and there's certainly plenty of choice so some discipline is definitely called for. At least we'd done a few laps of the decks today and used the stairs to go up and down the 8 levels between our deck and the Horizon Buffet so we felt we had earned our meal!

The Captain making his welcome speech

 

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