Sea Days

Hello from our last sea day as we make our way back to San Francisco.

The weather has been beautiful but cooler than Mexico. These last three days have been pretty much uneventful, which is probably a good thing when you’re on a ship in the ocean with thousands of other people.

I’ve spent a lot of time on my balcony. 

Now that we’re heading north and I’m on the starboard side of the ship I’m catching sunrises, too.

I’ve spent some time on the promenade deck. They have automatic doors to get outside so it makes for easy access with a scooter.

I’ve been watching the World Series outside on the big screen at Movies Under the Stars.

I tried out more of the pizza on deck special of the day. The four cheese was light and tasty.

I had a Bridge tour one day. I don’t know how I got on the list, but I’ll take it.

I reported - on multiple consecutive days - that an elevator wouldn’t go to deck 15. Every morning they said they were on it. By the next day, it wasn’t working again. I stopped taking a fresh picture and just kept showing them the same one again and again.

One thing I haven’t done these last three days is swim. The spa pool has been closed and a couple days I even found the terrace pool closed.

I guess one unusual thing did happen. On October 27 the ship decided to celebrate Halloween.

I watched a dad and his little kid push hard
on this cake until it broke. It’s fake, but still.

Tomorrow we’ll be back in San Francisco for another turnaround day. Immigration for in transits is being held on the ship and I haven’t yet decided if I’m going out and about for the day. 

See you tomorrow!

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Hello from Cabo!

After yesterday’s alcohol-fueled day I woke up this morning refreshed and feeling like a new person. Not excited enough to take a tender to go on shore, though. Really, who wants to go get a tender ticket, wait for the ticket to be called, try and get an elevator down to Deck 4 on the scooter, be crammed onto a tender in the hot sticky weather with 100+ other hot and sticky people, to go a port where I’ve been there enough and don’t have anything else new to do? Not this gal.

Instead I was at the spa pool before 8:30 AM and camped out there for the day. I should start calling it the Cocoon pool. If you’ve watched the movie, you know a lot of old folks swim in that pool. Same here. Not that I’m complaining because it definitely makes for a quieter environment.

After I did as much swimming and sunning as I possibly could do, I stopped by Movies Under the Stars to see how the football games were going. I’ve been on a lot of Princess cruises on football Sundays and I’ve never seen it so empty. It was just too darn hot to be watching a football game out on deck. 

I spent the late afternoon on my balcony, watching the jet skis running around in the water. Usually I’ve spotted lots of whales from the ship but it’s just a little bit too early in the season right now.

I had my last comped dinner at Crown Grill tonight. Had to go back for the sea bass! Here’s my before and after. It’s so delicious but just too much for me. 

While dinner made me miss the sunset I was in time to see some colors left in the sky. Late nights in port when the weather is warm ranks up there with the best days on a cruise ship. 

In the evening temperatures felt more comfortable and lots of folks were outside on deck. It also made for more comfortable football viewing as well. 

Packers v. Steelers

We’ve got three sea days coming up as we make our way back to San Francisco. I’ll probably be back in a couple days to wrap up this cruise before our next voyage - to Hawaii! 

See you in a few days.