On departure from St Thomas yesterday Royal Princess set a north-westerly course through the Nares Abyssal Plain (Atlantic Ocean) after passing the island of Puerto Rico on the port side. Throughout today we will continue on a north-westerly course passing north of the Turks and Calcos islands. Tomorrow morning we will pass 5 nautical miles to the south of Rum Cay before making our final approaches to our anchorage at Princess Cays and hopefully there is not a 2 metre swell like last time and we bypassed the island.

Today is a lay in day of doing nothing, which means a late breakfast like everyone else and we are spoilt by Aurel with a bowl of walnuts and pistachio’s. At 10am there is a Culinary Show in the Princess Theatre (Cooking with Executive Chief David McDonald and Maître d’hôtel) we have seen this before but not the tour of the Galley. We strolled around Decks 7, 6 and 5 looking at the sales in the different shops, plus the big Outlet sales of older cruise products. On Deck 5 in the Piazza was the Easter family fun fair with activities including face painting, games with prizes, arts & crafts and cookie decorating. The kids were having their photo taken with Pelican Pete and the Easter Bunny, I got a nice shot of Yury taking photos.

Just made it in time for the Galley tour on Deck 6 the main galley between Concerto Dining Room and Allegro Traditional Dining. Pity it was so quick it is such a big commercial kitchen with all the different sections for preparing the meals. Could only take a quick video not stopping for a photo.

Had our complimentary Latte at the Piazza Bar watching the tail end of the Easter fun fair before the Ballroom Blitz (Rumba) Dance Class, which didn’t interest us and time past quickly after lunch. Had a laugh at the photos of us taken by our friendly ship photographers, helped them out with their quota numbers for the day.

Formal night again very busy with portrait photos taken on the three decks round the Atrium, plus there was another Wedding on-board tonight (third one for the 30 days we have been on the cruise. The Concerto Dining Room was also very busy Lobster and Prawn night tonight, which was excellent including escargots but they were floating in butter and not in the snail shells.

Too windy on Deck 16 near the pool for our peppermint tea, everyone watching the basketball game on the outdoor screen were wrapped up in rugs. We ventured back to a quiet area in the Horizon Bistro before retiring for the evening.