Queen Mary 2 - First Day at Sea!

I woke up this morning at like 5am ship time (we will set the clocks back an hour 5 of the 6 nights so we are on New York time when we get in...which I have a hard time adjusting my sleep so we shall see how this goes...) and I was starving! Continental breakfast doesn't start till 6, and I didn't realize until later that I could have ordered some tomato soup from room service, so I waited till 6 to get some food and felt a bit sick by then. I figured it was because I needed to eat as I used to get really sick if I didn't eat soon after getting up, and once I had some fruit and bread I was much better, but I had ordered breakfast in my room so I didn't want to eat too much. I thought I had ordered a ton of food, but everything came and was so tiny! So that was good so it wasn't too much food.

Then I had a lovely walk around all the outer top decks. It was pretty nice up top and no one else was up there that early. That is where you can play shuffleboard and they give dance lessons and stuff if it is nice out. It was sunny and beautiful!

Then late morning it got so spooky out! Visibility was low and I loved it! We get a weather update every day at noon and today they said we are skirting around a low pressure area in the next 24 hours and the waves will get slightly bigger (10 ft they said which seems big to me...), but after that it should be smooth sailing again. So hopefully that is not too bad.

Today I have been relaxing. I was surprised that I could still read since I can feel the boat rocking a bit, but it has been really nice. I love having my balcony door open and listening to the wave. Lunch was all the veggie - steamed veggies, veggie curry (which was surprisingly spicy!) and fried eggplant - yum! Then afternoon tea of a "scone" which didn't look great, but I thought I will try it and it was super tasty! The chocolate cookie was meh, and the other thing was odd. It had raspberry jam in it and I have no clue what the outside was made out of? It was light and airy, and not bad just not a texture I was expecting.

After tea I went to spy on the pool and the water was not ice cubes! It was pretty warm so of course I had to get in, then sit in the hot tub for a bit! It was so nice. It is windy and cold outside, but wonderful in the pool!

This evening it rained a bit, but not hard. Just enough to get everything wet. Dinner was pasta and lots of steamed and roasted veggies - so tasty! I love that they have so many veggies for me to eat! And a few different desserts - I decided to try a different chocolate mousse and a strawberry mousse. Neither were very good, but that's fine. I don't need dessert.

Took a walk near sunset and found they put lights on in the bar area on the upper pool! There was no one up there cause the weather was not great, but still fun. And there was also a hint of sunset in the clouds. It was windy and not too cold, but then as I was finishing my walk it started raining and the wind was picking up. We shall see what tomorrow holds! Czytaj więcej