Well overnight the weather started to create some ever growing waves and initially it was difficult to see how high t hey were but it was moving the ship around quite a bit and and making it difficult for sleeping as every now and again you felt you would fall out of bed which would not be good.
Before leaving the suite again we had have a go about the failing air con in our room as last night it was set to minimum and still reached 26 Cent, so gave them hell and ten minutes later three engineers turned up with a complete new unit so lets hope that works.
Getting up in the middle of night to visit the Loo was also a challenge and if you can imaging somebody very, very drunk trying to walk by holding on to anything you can find to hold on to it certainly was a challenge. Anyway being bumped around all night meant we were up much earlier than normal and so we headed up the La Terrazzo the Italian Restaurant where they serve a buffet breakfast and place was a bit quiet and the waves were getting higher. As the Captain and crew had recommended not moving about the ship so we decided to stay in the room and watch the sea go by and watch the news and read books and Noel to watch some videos.
The Behring Sea is well known to be rough at certain times of year and if you have seen on Tv the series about the crab fisherman who operate from Dutch Harbour you will fully understand how bad it can be. The Captain came on the intercom at midday to give us an update and said they had hoped to take a different line closer to the coast but as the Russian and Chinese Navy were have war games in the Behring Sea a large part of where he had intended to go had been closed off to commercial shipping and so we have to carry on as before.
By lunchtime the sea was getting really high and we are on Deck 5 and a good forty feet above the water line and the waves were smashing in to our balcony, great if you want cold swim. They were also planning to empty the swimming pool and hot tubs to reduce upper weight and improve stability although they have full time stabilisers. We also continued watching the antics in Washington with regard to the apparent sexual assault??? and its all set up for next Monday for an official hearing which the lady in questions first of all wanted to attend but now is saying she want the FBI to investigate this. You must be joking. The FBI investigate Federal matters and not this type of thing and have already concluded five separate investigation in to this guys as part of his appointment. Anyway how can you investigate something which probably did not happen and when you cant remember where and when. We also have seen somewhere that she said she had a witness but the this so called witness said he did not see anything to do with this matter and what's she talking about and then at the end of the day a Democratic Senator was beginning to indicate he did not trust her anyway. Talk about Monty Python…
Going to the Loo is interesting at its like riding a bucking Bronco in the crazy house at Southend Pier. However to watch guests negotiating the hallways is also fun as they stagger from side to side clutching on to anything that is stable and when you reach and open space a look of panic is visible, will I or will I not make it across the next 25 feet to the wooden handrail
We continued with a quiet afternoon and have booked for dinner in the Italian again tonight as Jennifer prefers this restaurant as she has a good view of the horizon which helps her overcome any risk of sea sickness but so far she has not been affected and her wrist bands seem to work very well.
Well we arrived in the Italian Restaurant which was quite empty either because people were in the lower deck main restaurant or were in their cabins anyway the Maitre D said, The Chef is on his way and shortly afterwards he arrived and said what to do you want tonight, I can do anything you need, amazing!!!. Anyway I was so impressed with what he prepared for me the other evening which was a mixed seafood Linguine which was bloody brilliant i said he could he do it again for me please. No problem he said and once the ‘secondi’ course was being delivered he arrived at the same time and said I only used lobster, even better I said and it was really very good again.
After dinner we went in the bar/lounge for a nightcap and that was deserted and we thought everybody may have gone to the show but apparently not as it had been cancelled due to the weather. Oh well one more day at sea and then we arrive in the Soviet Republic of Russia, winners of the US Presidential election. Ha
