The ship’s clocks went forward last night in line with Gibraltar time, so we lost an hour’s sleep. And though the ship bounced around a little, I still slept better. The classes start at 9.30 and we have to set up beforehand, so Peter and I are normally in The Grill for breakfast by about 8.
Whilst we were eating, the Captain announced that the ship had changed direction. This was because we’d turned to head for La Caruna on the Spanish Coast as of the passengers needed a medical evacuation. A helicopter was on its way.
Before the helicopter arrived the crew had to evacuate The Grill and the cabins near to the helipad for safety reasons. We were already downstairs setting up in the Coast to Coast restaurant, but many of the passengers were told to leave their breakfast and go to the main restaurant to finish. We had a few people late because of this.
The rest of the day went as expected. The sea got a little calmer and the weather warmer the further south we travelled. It won’t be long until everyone is on the outside decks. It was still too cold to spend much time on the balcony though.
The dress code tonight is formal. Everyone gets dressed up in their best togs, the ladies in full length dresses, and the blokes in black tie. I own many dresses for these occasions, but I’ve only brought one this time, thinking that the cruise would only have two formal nights, but there are four! No worries. My dress is a full length burgundy number that I picked up from a charity shop, with a very nice expensive looking gold designer shawl, that I also picked up from a charity shop. Peter was supposed to wearing his tux, but it turned out he’d left the trousers at home, so he ended up wearing his blue suit. He felt a little underdressed, poor man.
We sat with the craft tutors at dinner tonight. We were a little puzzled as to why there were two, but it turned out one (English lass), was there to show the other (American accent), the ropes. They seemed a nice pair, although the English lass was quite a forceful character. For instance, I’m not sure we entirely agreed that medical emergencies were exclusive to Saga, having been on so many other ships, but she was quite insistent that only Saga has helicopter evacuations due to the age of its clientele.
Another thing discussed was the points system – Saga and many other cruise lines ask their passengers at the end of each cruise to mark the entertainment. Peter is aware of this but doesn’t worry about it. I’m confident he must score well because cruise companies keep asking him back. Our English crafter tried to explain this to Peter, adding that when a crafter/artist/lecturer gets really high scores, then he or she can more or less pick their future cruises, (as opposed to be offered the ones that are left/no one else wants). Yes, Peter replied, he’d sent his wish list for next year a couple of weeks ago, and he’d got an email this morning telling him he’d been put on the first two that he’d asked for, and the office would let him know about the rest.
“Oh!” she replied. LOL
We finished the evening in the Playhouse watching “Richard and Adam”, they were a couple of Welsh brothers that won (I think), Britains Got Talent back in 2013. They were good, we’ll watch them again. Another sea day tomorrow and we’re getting into a routine.
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