10th November- It’s getting a little choppy out there

It was a little bumpy in the night but seemed to have improved once we finally awoke for our morning cuppa. Whenever we travel we take our own tea making equipment just in case. Many US hotels have coffee making stuff which can be used for boiling water but usually even the tea tastes like coffee. So we have our little multi volt electric kettle, which has sufficient room to boil enough water for two large cups, we also have a pack of our UK brand tea bags and collect water each night from the restaurant as the tap water is seawater that has been treated by an on board desalination plant but it’s no good for tea at all.

Breakfast time, the silver service has stopped as I presume that we are near enough to the USA should there be any health problems. We sat outside and it must have been raining as most of the chairs and tables were wet but we did find one set that was ok.

The navigation channel on the TV is now showing the sea state as ‘Rough mounting waves’ of 14.5 feet whilst the temperature has now reached 24.3 degrees with winds of 33 knots. Should be interesting over the next few days and Jennifer has her sea bands on. With this weather we may not be able to safely do our planned walk later today, anyway let’s see.

Well, the Captain has been on the Tannoy to say that the weather is deteriorating and he is expecting the winds to increase and also the wave height and as a result they will have to close the portholes on deck 4 until further notice. This may not please some of the passengers on that deck. The weather is expected to be this way for the next 48 hours. Please therefore use one hand to hold on to the hand rails at all times to avoid an accident. He is also planning to slow the ship down a bit when it gets a little rougher. Time to visit the bar selling Brandy!!

Yes, it is getting a little bit more rough as the afternoon wears on but we go to see the Yorkshire lass again on the piano and then to see the show which, an American guy sitting next to Noel, said was great. It’s an English group he said, I felt they weren’t after watching them for five minutes and then walking out earlier in the week however we went and they were Spanish and out of tune. Their group name is Fourever and they went on it seems for bloody forever and then the end came and people stood up and shouting for more, Oh No please not, but they did.

The ship was shaking quite a bit by now with winds of up to 40 knots and wave height at 28 feet and climbing.