November 3 - Lost in Time

I’ve been at sea sailing along the southern edge of the Bermuda Triangle and today  I truly began the day, lost in time.  We didn’t receive a reminder last night that where we are on the planet, we weren’t going to change from daylight to standard time.  Like many of my shipmates my apple devices all happily automatically reset to EST and we’ve all been one hour behind ship’s time.  As a result I got up and dressed too late to make breakfast.  Not to worry though, because it’s impossible to go hungry on this ship.

I don’t have any remarkable photos of exciting sights so I’ll include a few random ones just for the heck of it.

Ignore me and just focus on Patience, the wonderful hostess in the Restaurant

Katarina Rossa, the wonderful violinist who performed two shows

Miami Beach as we sailed away

My cabin attendents made this lovely rose and left it on the counter between my sinks

I decided to try catching up on my blog and got side-tracked once again.  I was sitting in my favorite corner in the Square and a friend came and sat with me.  I can’t resist conversations, so there went the morning. That’s what happened all day yesterday, our first of two sea days.

Yesterday we had our first noon trivia of this 8-day leg of my voyage.  We’re doing cumulative trivia because we have several sea days.  We finished in second place which put us in a good position for the overall winners at the end.  The seas were pretty rocky all day so my muscles had a good workout keeping me reasonably stable.  In the evening I dined with Linda from Texas who I met when we boarded in Montreal and another trivia team member who boarded in Miami on the 1st.  Dinner was good and the drinks were wonderful!   The dessert was the star of the meal. After dinner I went to the show to hear a performer named Jonathan Christopher.  He has performed on Broadway and has a great voice, but his selection of songs was not really my cup of tea.  I’m probably in the minority, but I don’t like the music from Hamilton and he sang several numbers from that.  But different strokes for different folks.

Julia in the Solis restaurant who made us deconstructed Tiramisu for dessert.  It sounds unusual, but it was heavenly to eat.  Ladyfingers soaked in Kahlua, mascarpone cheese spooned over them and chocolate shavings sprinkled on top!

Today we’re steaming along the northern coasts of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.  We’re still bouncing.  If you read this you know trivia is important and a highlight for us serial cruisers and today was no exception.  We were on a roll!  We won by more than 100 points!  I won a Seabourn umbrella (I have several already) which I will pass on to a favorite crew member. The hardest thing will be which one to give it to because there are so many who take such good care of me.

The most important spot on the ship at high noon with Miss Kitty waiting on the table to wave us to victory (my noon Bloody Mary is there too 😁)

 

I’ve written about this area of the ocean a couple of years ago, but I think it’s interesting enough that I like to remind myself of it.  We’re sailing over an area called the Puerto Rico Trench.  Below us  are tectonic plates passing each other. Along part of this area the North American plate is diving below the Caribbean Plate creating an area of subduction.  The result is that this trench has the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching depths of more than 28,000 feet.  The mass of the Earth at the bottom of the trench is so dense that it causes a difference in the gravitational pull at the surface and as a result NASA has detected that there is actually a dip in the ocean level around here.  I find that absolutely fascinating.

That's it for now.  I haven't decided what to do for dinner.  I had an invitation but declined because it was for 6:45 which is too early, and the host is a conversationalist whose talks I haven't been to so I'd have to pretend I had.  More later...