It was a very shaky night on the ship. We were being tossed around all night long, and we did not sleep too well. Our hangovers didn't help! Luckily we were down on level 5, as opposed to level 14. As we began our morning, the captain announced that we had sailed through 60-knot winds and 18-foot seas!
I finally ventured out of the room at 9 am, once we'd fully awakened, to get coffee for us, but then we remained in our room with the Do Not Disturb sign up for a couple more hours. We shared the Valentine's cards we'd both brought along for each other. Actually, we stayed in the room most of the day! We ate lunch in the large Versailles Dining Room, and dinner in the Aqua Dining Room, but it was a different kind of cruise day for us. Very little alcohol, due, again, to the rough seas and our hangovers. They had to postpone the stage show with the dancers due to the rough seas, so they replaced them with a comedian.
I did, however, find time to do my cycling machine in the Fitness Room. But I had to stand there and wait 20 minutes while the two cycles were in use by one woman gently pedaling on resistance level 1 and a man spinning on level 5.
The next day, Thursday the 15th, was much calmer, thank goodness. I awoke at 6 am and slipped out and up to the Fitness Room while it was still empty. Then I got our coffees on the return to the room, where Janet had just awakened. We enjoyed our coffees in bed, and remarked how glad we were that the seas had calmed down.
This was the day we could see Cuba off in the distance for a couple hours. We mostly lounged/read on the 7th-level promenade, and it was off to that starboard side where we saw Cuba. We used my binoculars, so they weren't a total waste to have brought along! (Actually, I used them during the Panama Canal day too.)
By being Latitude Platinum members, we got 30 free Internet minutes, so I used them to catch up on some e-mails. I also uploaded all the photos from the Panama Canal and Cartagena, and then edited them (this is always a long process).
We ate lunch at O'Sheehan's with some friends Janet had made with the people next to her on the Promenade deck. What was sorta funny, though, was witnessing the woman eat BBQ ribs; she had BBQ sauce smeared all over her face, and continued to talk in a very loud voice which only drew more attention to her messy appearance.
I'm forgetting much more about our final full day of this wonderful cruise. I recall that the postponed stage show from the previous night was performed on this night, and it was grand as always. I performed at a karaoke show in one of the lounges; I sang "Operator" by Jim Croce, and came in too early at the beginning of the song. "Oh, the tragedy!" All the other singers were much better performers than I, but I did get a Norwegian deck-of-cards boobie prize.
We had to pack our luggage to set out in the hall before we went to bed, so that was Janet's excuse for not attending my big singing performance. LOL
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