Days 3. & 4

Happy New Year!

We have settled and into ship life and have spent two days a bit like this. 

Buffet breakfast. I’ve been trying new things and the bread pudding with butter milk (custard) is delicious. But today I thought I had better rope myself in and had fresh fruit and yoghurt. Lance has been into the bacon and eggs and today had a bacon and egg muffin. A pretty good buffet selection each day. Yesterday at lunch they brought around complementary lemoncello!

Then it has been off to the pool for a couple of hours until lunch when the temperature goes over 30. But we do manage a Pina colada at 11am. 

The afternoon is a combination of a coffee or a beer either in the atrium or on our balcony. The  first day we wandered through the ship and the higher we got the hotter it got (closer to the sun). Bathed in sweat we definitely needed a cold beer. 

The evenings are spent on a variety of bars following live music around. We are starting to meet a few people. One night the captain shouted every one a glass of bubbly in the atrium!

One lady that we hadn’t meet but spotted looked like a nasty lady off Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. About 65plus she has thick straight very blonde hair in a French plait. Blue eye shadow and eyes that look pretend smiley but with something sneaky in there. Anyway we have seen her doing her ballroom dancing and then last night she was in a dinner queue behind us and was quite rudely vocal. Low and behold she was at our dinner table. I just kept humming the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang tune quietly to Lance. 

Last  night was New Years Eve and we settled into a spot in the Atrium at the Crooners Bar. This was a great spot to watch people as it was "formal dress". We ended up with another couple Graeme and Lorraine from the UK and saw the new year in with them. It was a great night. Bed at 1:20 and the alarm went off at 5:45 am for the next adventure.