British Isle Cruise--Day 14

August 8, 2015—Day 14, At Sea

It was a sea day—finally!  And the sun was shining again when I woke up, but it was still very cold out.  We decided to go to the dining room for breakfast for a change instead of the buffet.  There were very few people up early so the dining room was pretty empty when we got there at 7:30 in the morning. 

After breakfast, we hung around a little while waiting for the casino to finally open at 10:00am.  Unfortunately, we were told that due to the ship’s navigational position, the casino would not be opening at all this morning, and it may not open this evening either.  It was originally scheduled to be open from 10:00am-noon, then again from 7:30pm-8:30pm—not much time for a sea day—guess the captain decided not to go too far from the coast. 

The public areas on the ship have been very chilly, probably due to the norovirus situation.  Because it’s been so cool around the ship, the only really warm place is in our cabins.  This was also the reason we decided not to participate in formal night—none of us wanted to take off the multiple layers we had on to dress in a thinner formal dress.  This will be the first time that I didn’t participate in any of the formal dinners on a cruise (so it looks like I have definitely over packed). 

Since we weren’t going to do the formal night, I decided to just relax the afternoon away in my cabin (where it was much warmer) to read and I ended up taking a short nap.  The next two days would be very busy, so a nap was just fine.  It was nice to be able to curl up in a warm bed for an hour and just doze off. 

We left our cabins at a little before 6:00pm and were headed toward the buffet when the cruise director announced that the casino would be open for an hour, so we quickly turned around and headed there.  Since it was formal night, and since some folks had already gone to dinner, it wasn’t very crowded.  I ended up losing a little of what I had won previously, but still enjoyed it.

Afterwards, we had dinner in the buffet, then back to the cabin to curl up in bed with another movie.  Tomorrow we would be in the port of Invergordon, near Inverness, and we had another all-day private excursion planned.  Thinking about the next day, I let the ship rock me to sleep.