Somewhere on the Pacific Ocean – 7th Apr 2026

Slept about the same as usual, not much, lol. The ship is mildly rocking most of the time, but when the mild got a little stronger the unused hangers in the wardrobe rattled. They don’t anymore!!!

The blue dot shows where I was at 5 am this morning!

Headed up to the pool around 7.30. It was amazingly rough looking. With the rocking of the ship the pool waters were really splashing around. After a chat with the lifeguard we decided that the Solarium pool would be better for me as it had sloping stairs to get into it! As that didn’t open until 8, I sat around until the barriers had been removed from it.

I’ll try and get a better photo tomorrow. This also was very splashy. It had much better access and even better no one under 18 is allowed in the Solarium. The ship is overrun with children!!!!! I don’t know why, but I was surprised that it’s a salt water pool. Trying to exercise in it was quite a laugh, but I managed 35 minutes before I got too cold to continue. The sun hadn’t got to it yet so the water was quite cool.

Back to my room for a shower and change and then I went to the Crown Lounge for a continental breakfast. This is accessible to members of the loyalty programme that Royal Caribbean runs. Also no children!!!! Had smoked salmon for brekky, very nice!

There were a couple, from Indiana, celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and were asking everyone, in the lounge, to sign their memory book for them, to read when they get home. I did my bit!

Then back to my room to nap, read, play games, do a bit of family tree and start on Maria’s mainly edge jigsaw!

This was the towel critter left for me! Cute little bird!

A picture taken along side the ship from my balcony.

Dinner was a bit strange. It was touted as Flavours of France, but the Coq au van was made with pork as was the Cordon bleu! However the potato gratin was definitely potato and the Salmon en Croûte was salmon!

Everything is taking a lng time to charge up with this American 120 volts, unlike our good old Australian 240 volts! Plus I only have one outlet available, so can’t charge overnight as using it for the CPAP.

Have to put clocks forward an hour tonight. Will be interesting to see if the phone picks up the locational change.