It's a sea day which means up earlyish to be ready for registration in the craft room from 8.30 until 9.30. When we get there, there's usually quite a few people waiting, so we try to get them away as quickly as possible, registration sheet for the morning on the table on the left, afternoon is on the table on the right. By 8.30 they've all signed up, and we've only a few places left for each session. But we have to wait until 9.30 before registration is finished.
I say we. I mean Peter. I opted for a wander around the ship to see what little flying things may have landed on it overnight. It was surprising really how many there were. Mostly they were the same moth species, but it kept me happy, wandering around to see what was there. I try to be very discreet when I'm taking photographs, but the crew have given me wierd looks when I've got the camera pointed at the ceiling, or the walls, or the corner of a window.
I meet up with Peter in the craft room for the last minutes of registration, then it's up to deck 12 for the anything you like breakfast. The first art class is at 11, so we have a few minutes after breakfast to get ourselves together before we head to the craft room again to set that up.
My job is mostly putting out the water and equipment before going around the full class to get cabin numbers. Saga are operating a track and trace system, so they want to know who sits near who, so that they can monitor potential Covid cases should anyone test positive.
The class will start and I will leave at a few minutes past 11. I usually sit in the library, doing things like typing out this blog, researching ports, reading etc. I can hear Peter and if there are any problems I can nip in and help sort them out.
The morning class will finish about 12.15, and we'll clear up. And then we go back to the Grill for more food. Because all the entertainers are sitting in the same corner, we'll end up chatting for a while.
The afternoon class is not until 15.30, so we usually end up going back to the cabin for a short nap, mebbe a cuppa on the balcony before we're off out again, up until now, we've been having Covid tests before we go to craft room. So far all negative, and it should stay that way I hope.
Set up the art class again. Leave Peter to it again. Mebbe sit in the library again, and then clean up the craft room again. We usually get back to the cabin about 5, and just chill, if it's not too hot, on the balcony. The Mediterranean has been very calm until now, and today it was unusually so.
To our delight..... Dolphins. Only a couple of them but we spotted them as we approached the boat and Peter managed to film one leaping out of the water quite close to us. As we sailed on, we were able to see them through the binoculars, playing in the bow wave.
The ship has been absolutely dawdling to be honest. I think that because Saga had to change the itinerary so late, they ended up with days between ports that normally only take an overnight journey to get to. The captain has been filling the time with things such as "drift measurements" - turning the engines off and seeing how far and in which direction the ship drifts. We've also had some very slow sailing past the islands in this vicinity, just to give us something to look at.
We go for dinner around 7 - 7.30. Today we sat alongside Tia and Jerry and enjoyed beef stroganoff. We plan to watch the show later, so with a little time after dinner we decided to promenade along the Promenade Deck. The sky was beautiful, I didn't have my phone, but Peter managed to get some photo's of the gorgeous colours on his.
The show tonight was a singer called Phillip Browne. He was brilliant! A very deep base voice, he sang Nat King Cole classics and Old Man River in such a lovely tone it almost brought tears to my ears. Wonderful!
One last promenade around the deck and back to the cabin stateroom to chill before bed.
As me sister would say..... "This is the life...."
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