Day 2 - First full day at sea

Saturday, June 18, 2011
North Sea, England, United Kingdom
Day 2 18th June 2011

In the North Sea


After putting the clocks forward an hour last night and getting to bed late we opted to order breakfast in our room rather than rush to get there before 9 .00. Good job we did as a bit of a restless night. Sounded like it was raining but turned out just to be general creakage. Tina woke up with a start feeling a bit off due to change in motion of the ship but almost straight away it was stabilised so back off to sleep. Too hot though so tonight we will attempt better climate control. Breakfast was great, you can actually order everything you would get in the restaurant but we just opted for cereal. Got up late and decided to go and try out the cha cha dance class. Arrived to find it packed and no room left on the dance floor. Watched for a bit and then headed off to find a cuppa. It was quite strange watching 6 lines of people swaying back and forth while they learnt the first step! 

On route decided to head into the Kings Court buffet restaurant for a spot of lunch. It's all about eating it seems....... Queue in an orderly fashion and have people push you from behind as if they hadn't been fed for a week lol!!!! Food typical buffet fare and barely warm so will be back to the Queens grill tonight . Okay for a great Greek salad though.  

Decided to do a deck tour, as the entertainment is a bit on the light side. A talk about Rolf Harris, a ship tour, or a spa product talk. Not exactly riveting. Started at the lookout on deck 14. Sadly it is raining so a bit grim but would be lovely in the sun. Thanks weather. We worked our way down. I know we are on one of the biggest liners but there isn't actually that much to do. All bars and lounges really. We found the inside pool which seemed to have a fair few beds left so will try that tomorrow after we have been to Stavanger. The gym looks great but we haven't stopped eating for long enough to be able to use it today. Feel so full even though we are limiting ourselves to half portions. Having trained to be able to run the 3 laps round deck 7 - 1.1miles, we would be lucky to make it round once as most people are just meandering so you would be forever stopping to get passed. Back to the treadmill. Didn't realise there would only really be 2 decks to walk round out of 14 .

3.30 and yes more food. It's time for afternoon tea. We wanted the tea so just had to have a little sandwich and half a scone each as well. We are at least walking up all the stairs. Back to our room for a little rest on the balcony as the rain has stopped and the sun is trying to shine. Bit too cold though so retired to the sofa instead. The room really is great.  

4.45 and in comes Julian with the canapés. Well it is time for pre-dinner drinks. Still a bit of champers left from yesterday and just waiting for the slimline tonic to arrive for the gin. Well you have to save calories where you can on here haha........ Tonight is the black and white ball so looking forward to dressing up, although leaving the cabin is quite hard, a little oasis and so quiet. There are apparently over 2800 passengers on board but you wouldn't know it. Only one couple on the dance floor last night. Let's hope tonight is better.

Dressed for formal dinner which was fun . Our dinner table is quite entertaining, the barrister gave us a story of a slasher he defended, apparently the girlfriend took the mickey out of his manhood so he grabbed a knife from the bedside table, as you do, and slashed her throat so much he almost decapitated her. Charming. We were part way through our steaks. The guy got manslaughter not murder seeing as how he was provoked.... We dropped in on the entertainment and caught the dancers dressed as pizza chefs but didn't stay long. Then headed for the disco which was ok but we were too chicken to dance as again hardly anybody on the floor. We had a cocktail instead but with no glasses between us to read the menu just took the ones in big type! back to the cabin, need to have a few more drinks to get up on the floor.... 

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