Queen Mary 2 - Day 2 at Sea!

Phew! This is a long one! Woke up this morning about 5am ship time (and we set the clocks back again last night) and luckily I was not starving this time. I did better eating smaller meals and snacks throughout the day yesterday which is good. It was sunny and gorgeous outside! I had my breakfast then went for a nice swim which was so much fun. The boat is definitely rockier than yesterday as it was like swimming in a wave pool. If you look at photos of the pool from prior days there is the pool then a big tiled area around it for the water to splash up on that has a high wall around it so the pool doesn't make a huge mess or loose all its water. Well it was so rocky the water kept looking like it could wash me up on the tile part as it was so high above the edge of the pool, then would get so low on the way back. It made swimming more challenging, I would swim and barely go anywhere, but it was fun. Afterwards I had a nice soak in the hot tub with a few other passengers and we were all chatting about our trips and lives which was nice. The one guy from the UK wanted to do like I am doing and come back on the later one, but he couldn't get 6 weeks off work so he has to fly back home.

Afterwards I explored the lower inside decks which were pretty nice. There is an art gallery with some really nice pieces in, a theatre, I found a line dancing class which is not really my thing, but I might join them tomorrow for that just for fun. There is also a planetarium where they have lots of talks and show movies which was quite big. They haven't had a planetarium show yet, but hopfully they do as I would enjoy that. I also spied on the library which is quite large as well and they have all kinds of books in there. Then back to my room to read some until lunchtime.

We get the weather update at noon and we are still going by this weather system to the north of us and the captain said the winds would pick up (they were 20 knots this morning, and would get up to 35 this afternoon/evening), but then overnight we should get back to calm waters for tomorrow. Well I went outside for a walk around the deck before lunch and it is definitely much windier! It was blowing me around a bit and the salt water was spraying up on deck 7 where I was walking! My glasses got covered with salt as so much sprayed in my face on the one side of the ship. Also I could barely get the door open to go outside when I went (and I really have to put some muscle into opening my balcony door)!

After lunch I went to play some trivia and it was super crowded and a nice family asked if I wanted to join them so I did. It was just a quick one round of album covers and you had to write down the album. I knew 3 of the 12 that my team didn’t know, and knew the bands of some of the other ones, but not the album name which helped try and think of them. We did alright, but definitely didn’t win that round, but it was fun.

Then I went to go walk around again before afternoon tea and the decks are closed off! Probably good since the wind has really picked up and the waves are kind of crazy and fun to watch! I keep standing out on my balcony to watch as I love it! I love stormy water and somehow I am still not getting seasick! Fingers crossed this keeps up!

We did go across the mid Atlantic ridge today which gets over 11,500 feet deep!! It runs from South Africa to Iceland so that was fun to know even though you couldn’t see anything in the water :)

After afternoon tea I went back to trivia again and there were not that many people playing so I played by myself and got 11/20 which is not bad! The winning team had 17, so not me, but still had fun!

They said earlier that there would be be 8-10ft waves and all day I was like they don’t look that big…then this afternoon I went out on the balcony and was like oh, yeah, these are some big waves! Big peaks and low troughs! Every once and a while there would be a really big one and sitting here it felt like something hit the side of the boat. Like something bumped into my room.

This evening a band was playing 70‘s music so I thought I would go check it out. At first I just watched as everyone was paired up and I was wearing a mask like always, but then I just said screw it! This is a good song and I wanna dance! So I found some space at the edge and danced the night away! It was so much fun!! Just let loose and did not care that everyone kept staring at me in my mask! I had so much fun!! I did all the things today! And now I am tired and heading off to bed! We shall see what tomorrow brings :)Lue lisää