Just finished our fourth day at sea. According to the captain, we are over the half-way point in crossing the Atlantic. We saw a freighter today, going west ... nice to know we are not alone out here! Very unfortunate for whoever they had the emergency call for tonight while we were at supper. It was on deck 11 and they put the all throughout the ship. First one of those since we departed.
A further bit of information concerning the man who broke his hip on our tour to the winery .... he was from Ottawa (I might have written Toronto in error) and had set out for the cruise with another couple from Ottawa. Apparently, on the flight from Ottawa to Rome, the gentleman from the other couple died on the flight! His wife returned to Ottawa with the body and the other couple went on to the cruise.
On a much brighter note, we are so much enjoying our bridge cruise. Larry Cohen is a wonderful teacher and is a great host on the cruise. He and his wife have made it a point to have dinner each night with people on the bridge cruise. We are due to dine with them on Friday night ... all our friends at the Friday bridge club can think of us on Friday night while you are playing bridge. Today he gave each of us a "gift" .. his teaching CD's. Very nice of him as they are each valued at $20.
Got to love the trans Atlantic travel. When we left Rome, we had 6 time zones to recover and tonight is our fourth time change. We are still one hour ahead of Nova Scotia, but getting close!
It is now Thursday and tomorrow we will be back on Atlantic Standard Time. We had rough seas last night and things settled down by noon. Now it is clear sailing and Eric plans on watching the stars tonight.
We have developed a nice daily routine. Bridge occupies the morning and afternoon until 4:30 when we go to our suite and have a drink on the balcony. We face south, so we have the sun all day. After watching thr sun set, we get dressed up for dinner, but go the lounge before dinner. They have lovely music; in fact it is a young French girl from Montreal who is accompanied on the piano by a cute young British fellow. Then we go to dinner at one of the 3 restaurants. We always choose to share a table and meet some very interesting people. I don't think we have eaten with anyone who is on their first Regent cruise .... they cruise all the time!!
All for now .... love to all
Always so good to read your stories! I'm bobbing in the Atlantic too, but it's just not quite the same. Very much looking forward to your pictures! Sounds like you guys have settled into a nice relaxing routine with a great social aspect to it. Easy to get use to cruising...... :)
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