Neither of us slept well overnight with the boat moving around all over the place and when we woke we noticed that several things had fallen off shelves and also the bed had moved 12 inches to the right and stopped by the cupboard doors. Wow didn’t notice that.
After breakfast we walked to the front of the ship and overlooked the Captain’s Lair, as we arrived we hit a particularly large wave and their chairs, on wheels would you believe, slid across the control deck and smashed in to another couple of chairs. The Captain appeared at a fast rate and then lots of red flashing lights went for reasons we know not, but we did find out.
Back through the ship we finally passed duty free with stuff all over the place and cupboards falling over, Noel was looking for damaged bottles of whisky but no such luck. Further up the corridor there were groups of Filipinos busy sweeping up water, on the 6 and 7 th floors. We then noticed another group of engineers trying to tie down some relaxer chairs on the 7th floor with wind whistling past and water going everywhere, quite dangerous for them anyway.
We stopped for a few minutes to look out the window and take some photos at which time they announced that several restaurants on the upper decks were closing for safety reasons and that having food sent to your cabin will be quicker as they put more people on this job. It would also appear that some furniture in the ‘Great Outdoors’ Restaurant has either been washed away or more likely blown overboard from the 12th floor. But it is certainly closed down now with rope everywhere holding tables and chairs and imitation pot plants
Noel took some photos of the waves from deck 7 and they were much higher than deck 7 and were quite awe inspiring really, not like the River Wey at all.
Whilst typing this at around
Noel is reading a book called ‘The Hunt for Red October’ by Tom Clancy, a seafaring story no less and there is a quote which says ” a ship is like a prison in which you can also drown” nice!!!
The film they are showing today is ‘Titanic’, actually it’s not it’s called ‘Angels and Demons’ so we went to watch it. If you have seen the film you will know that part of the action takes place in cars travelling fast around Rome, you are in the car going fast around the corner and the ship is lurching all over the place, it’s just like being in a simulator. There are little white bags stacked around all over the place just in case.
In the evening with the Garden Café closed there were more people than places available to eat unless you wait till quite late and so we said ‘bugger it’ and went back to Cagney’s Steak House which was good, but you do have to pay more.
Following dinner a short stay in the Star Bar listening to the four piece string group and then on to the Theatre to see a show put on by the crew which was good and bad in places.
The ship was still moving around quite a bit when we got back to the cabin, there is another hour to be lost overnight which means that by Friday we are already on
Bedtime calls.
