A Busy Sea Day - October 22

The entrance to Sabatinis Restaurant
A beautiful calm day heading west
The Sanctuary on Deck 17 forward
The 8th and 9th Holes on the Ruby International Course. The greens were fast!

Today we were busy all day. We began with our usual Mimosas for breakfast but we ate quickly because morning trivia was earlier today. Unfortunately we let our victory from yesterday go to our heads and we did pretty badly. We decided we tend to overthink the answers and need to stop doing that.

Next we played a round of golf (okay, it’s putt-putt) up on deck 19. I may be one of the world’s worst golfers! But I did win 6 holes to 3. The funny thing was that after we finished , there was a Ryder Cup tournament and Al stayed to watch the “pros” who turned out to be as bad as we were.

Since it was such a beautiful, sunny day we headed to the Sanctuary and spent a few hours playing scrabble and relaxing on the super comfortable lounge chairs. At four we headed to a party in the cabin of some of our Tidewater friends. We had delicious cheese from Montserrat, a variety of interesting wines, fruit, chips and guacamole. The best part was the company though! (You may notice a theme on these sea days – there’s an awful lot of eating and wine-tasting going on. Monday morning reality will set in!)

Tonight was the last formal night, so when we had polished off the wine, we adjourned to our respective cabins to get dressed for dinner at Sabatinis with our fellow wine tasters. The Tidewater Six met for a lovely Italian dinner. We had eaten a few nights ago in the other restaurant, the Crown Grill, and had such a good time we decided to do it again. Our reservation was for 8:30 PM and we closed the restaurant down at 11:45. Thank goodness we’ve been turning back the clock most nights. These 25 hour days are pretty good for letting us catch up on our sleep!