At sea

Sunday 4th September

We woke about 10am but by the time we had sat on the balcony and taken our time, the breakfast had all been put away. We ended up getting a hamburger and fries from the Mast Grill.

After sitting in the sun for a while, we went to watch the dance class downstairs. Their version of Salsa was very strange. They counted in groups of 12 and they changed feet at odd times. It must be a result of dancing on stage, and starting each group of steps facing the audience. Where the natural way to turn into New York-style steps would be right foot for ladies, they made it left foot. The dancers, consequently, were doing a range of turns! We had a good laugh watching them. Some arm movements looked more like exercises than dance movements.

The rest of the day was spent by the pool. I sat in the shade reading until a chair next to David came available. We lazed in the hot tub and swam in the pool. We did quite a bit of people watching.

One disappointment was that we could not find a bar open that served Tanqueray 10 for David or even pomegranate mojitos for me. After paying the extra for the Premium package, we could not use it until the evening!

David offered to do my hair for dinner that evening, and created a spiky style that came forward onto my face instead of back from the face. 

Dinner was not great. We did not want any of the starters and David was disappointed in his beef Wellington.

We went downstairs where the orchestra was playing and managed to dance a merengue and a quickstep. We really did not know what to do after that, as there was nothing interesting on. We tried the Sky Lounge but found there was a game there. We saw it through and then spoke to Justin, the Activities Manager, about dancing tempi. He told us that Celebrity is trying to phase out ballroom dancing as it considers it to be old-style cruising. What a pity.

David was tired and we could not be bothered waiting around for a brief show at 10.30 so we went to bed. Unfortunately the TV was playing up and would not retrieve the film David was halfway through watching. He went to sleep while I read. Within 10 minutes he started chuckling and then talking in his sleep. It was incredibly funny. I took note of everything he said and read it back to him the next day. It all seemed to be based on incidents from his childhood and was all true.