First Day at Sea

Surprisingly enough, I was able to get up in time to make it to morning stretch, which seems to be a yoga-lite.  Fine by me.  A little more challenging when the floor lurches a bit, but mostly not balance-intensive, which is better for me anyway.  Troy made it up in time to have room service deliver breakfast.  We then did a morning round of trivia to get the brain waves going.  Out of 15 questions, we got a grand total of six correct.  We did not do well with baby animals (baby alligators are hatchlings, as it turns out) and several other categories.  To really ramp up the friendly competition, the group in front of us got 15/15.  Apparently, they had heard it all before.

After trivia, Troy was feeling a little seasick, so we went back to the stateroom and dozed for a bit.  When the Dramamine kicked in, we nursed our wounded trivia pride in the hot tub for a while, and then read on the deck.  Pretty gorgeous weather – cool and sunny.  We went to the buffet for a late lunch and roamed the decks looking for shuffleboard.  No such luck on shuffleboard being an option.

At 4:00, we went into the Rendezvous Lounge to wait for the progressive trivia tournament to start, and we had the opportunity to hear the end of the passenger choir’s first rehearsal.  I just think it’s awesome that that’s an option for participation on board.  Now all they need are some arts and crafts, and I’m set.  You’ll be happy to know that Troy and I performed considerably better during the progressive trivia round, missing only three of the fifteen questions.  These are the ones we missed.  I’ll put the answers at the bottom.

·         What color is most common in the flags of the countries of the world?

·         What color is slug’s blood?

·         What is the only word in the English language to end in –mt?

After trivia, we had our first formal night in the dining room.  I once again had French onion soup, and lamb medallions for the entrée.  Very tasty, and we sat with a couple from Australia, and a couple from Southern California.  Learned some about Australia (was able to drop some knowledge from the history of the periodic table of elements book that I’m reading (The Disappearing Spoon)), and generally had a good time.  Both couples were veteran cruisers.

The next “event” was the Captain’s Address.  Captain Tasos is the youngest captain ever in the Celebrity fleet and had a nice sense of humor.  He introduced his senior officers, and talked for probably five minutes before the event turned into “Production Spectacular: Hollywood!” which was a singing dancing number that was very high energy and had a whole lot of costume changes.  We finished the night off with Emily and the Nightcaps.  And by “finished the night off,” I mean, we were two of four people who hung around to hear Emily and the Nightcaps go until “late.”

Tomorrow is Excursion the first!  We’re going to Rostock, Germany and doing a tour of the town and the brewery.

More later!

Answers:  Red (we said white), Green (we said yellow), and Dreamt (we said... nothing)