First Full Day on Board

Our first full day aboard ship has been a spectacular day as far as the weather goes – temperature in the mid-20’s and sunny all day. For a day at sea, the scenery has been amazing. A geography lesson………there are approximately 1400 Greek islands (only 169 of them are inhabited) and we have been sailing past many of them today – they are all volcanic by appearance with lots of mountains visible on all of the ones that we have been sailing past.

We finally got some sleep last night – about 10 hours of it and then had bacon and eggs on our veranda this morning – what an absolutely decadent way to live! The ship has been great with us – providing us with some clothes and excuses. They have given both of us some T-shirts and they kindly offered me some formal clothing for this evening. Unfortunately, when the clothing arrived, I didn’t care for it, so we will not be going formal tonight – we will have 3 more opportunities to be formal during the cruise. Apparently, we have been excused from the dining room dress code until our luggage arrives, so we aren’t feeling guilty – just sad because we really do enjoy formal nights.

Once again, I am writing this post sitting on our verandah while waiting to go to dinner. Tomorrow should be a good day – Corfu and hopefully when we return to our cabin, our luggage will have arrived. If it has, then tomorrow’s post will include pictures.