At sea

Saturday 27th August

We woke this morning at 10am. However, as the clocks had gone back during the night it was the equivalent of 11am. The lights were still not working. It was okay in the room because of the sun streaming through the balcony window, but pitch black in the bathroom. David enjoyed the sun on the balcony while I got ready. We both put on our swimming costumes with other clothes over the top. After breakfast we went out to the pool. We were too late to find a sun bed in the sun, but I spotted a couple of empty sun beds in the shade, and an empty spot by the bar, and got permission to move the beds into that position. It was a wonderful spot. We stayed there for 4-5 hours, sunbathing and swimming when we got too hot. Halfway through David had to apply sunscreen to his chest, as he hadn’t done so earlier when he had his shirt on. It was too late. He ended up quite burnt. I too had patches of red in places. However, it soon went down.

When I had had enough sun, we sat in Café al Bacio and then showered in order to attend a band session downstairs at 5.30. The band was late starting due to technical difficulties, and most songs were undanceable, being the wrong tempo. We managed one Ceroc dance.

The lights in our room finally came on around 6pm. When chatting to someone in Guest Relations, I discovered that we should have had emergency lighting in our room the whole time. She took a note of our room number to rectify the problem. Since then I have noticed that there is a permanent dim light in the bathroom. That would have been a big help in the previous 18 hours without lights.

We chose to sit at a table for 2 at dinner, but ended up chatting with the couple at the next table, and saw them around the ship from time to time for the rest of the cruise. Afterwards we went to the show. It was the best one we have seen on Celebrity. It had good dancing and colourful costumes and an attempt at a story.

David fell asleep while watching TV. I read for a while but was probably asleep by 11.30. We both slept well.