Queen Mary 2 - Day 5 at Sea!

Phew! Today was a day! I am so tired and ready for bed, but first an update. I woke up this morning to super foggy. After breakfast I went for a swim and it was chilly! Not super super cold, but cold and windy! I took some video as the pool, while not super hot, was steaming and the hot tub was really steaming! You couldn't see anything! And I was the only one in the pool again. The sun was trying to come out when I left the hot tub, but it wasn't looking good.

I got back to my room and took a quick shower and opened the bathroom door...and it was sunny and gorgeous outside! I was like wait what? It was just so foggy I couldn't see the water! And now it is sunny and clear! I don't take that long in the shower...and then we had a sunny day the rest of the day. It was chillier - they said it was only 13 at noon as opposed to 20 like it has been, so I had to bundle up to walk around in the sun.

They told us earlier this morning that we will be getting in about 4 hours later than expected as the gale force winds the last 2 nights put us too behind schedule we will miss our tide window and we have to wait for the next one, which worked out for me. I was a little worried I would get off the boat and to the rental car place before they opened...and I didn't want to just hang out in a random spot in Jersey that I don't know with all my things in the early morning. So when they said we wouldn't be arriving until 10:30 I thought okay, perfect I just need to change my pick up time...and realized the place I was going to get it from closes at noon so that would be pretty tight. We were originally going to arrive at 6:30 and I could get off at 7, so if we get there at 10:30 and get off at 11 I still have to go through customs and border control and I have no clue how long that will take. I didn't want to chance getting there too late so I switched to getting a car at the airport as that was the only place that was open later on Saturday so that should be good. Last time that was easy peasy so hopefully it is this time as well!

Then this afternoon I had some banking issues to deal with which took forever and Raymond and I were trying to sort everything out. Banking in Germany is often annoying because you have money, but it might take a few days before you can access it which drives me crazy. This was one of those things and it was super annoying. We finally figured everything out like 2 hours later so then I was like I need to go walk around! And decompress and chillax. So had a nice walk, had afternoon tea, played some music trivia with that older couple I played with the other day which was super fun. They are so nice.

Then I was in my room and sending my friend a message and looking out the window and the water had calmed down so much and I noticed something disturbing the water and was like what was that?? And then saw it was dolphins!! So of course I then had to put on all my warm layers and head outside to patrol! I kept walking back and forth and saw so many little dolphins swimming around! And then on the sunny side there was something in the sun reflections on the water and I couldn't tell what it was because it was hard to see because it was so bright. Well it finally got to where it was closer to me and out of the sun...and it was a shark!! That was so cool! I walked around to the other side and he was over there too! I was like what are you doing shark?? I also saw lots of jelly fish and this evening I saw a seal pop its head up and I think a little bat flew by? I don't know. It wasn't a bird, but are there bats that would be this far offshore?

So that was a lot of fun and a lot of walking/standing until I got too hungry and had to go eat something. When I was walking around there was another lady walking as well and whenever we would cross paths we would compare notes of what we saw and where. At one point she was like I still have to pack and eat some food and all the things, but how am I supposed to do that when there are aninals to see?? I was like exactly!! How am I supposed to do anything else? We were kindred spirits :) There was also a guy sitting on the sunny side and he asked if I saw some dolphins on the other side and he was saying all of them that he saw there. Then after dinner I went back out and he was still there and I asked him if he had seen any more and he said not since I left so I didn't miss anything. I walked around a bit more and another guy was walking and asked if I had seen any dolphins recently as he was out earlier as well and I was like nope! He was like yeah they were everywhere and then suddenly they were gone! We chatted a bit and it was nice talking to a few people about all the fun animal sightings!

I was going to go check out the band this evening, but after all that standing/walking watching the animals my feets are tired. So I came back to my room and packed what I could then went back out to watch the sunset. Tomorrow I get off the boat! I can't believe we will be in New York already! Not sure how much I will update after this, but if I have something fun to post I will :) I head back to Germany the end of July so I will probably post more photos from the boat then.Read more