Queen Mary Day 1

Today I woke up at 7 which was really nice. I went to bed early last night, but I forgot I have an alarm that goes off every hour until 10pm so that woke me up and it took me a bit to get back to sleep. But this morning was gorgeous and was nice walking around on deck. Then I actually made it to the watercolor class which was so much fun! There were a few rows of three tables for two people a bit apart from each other, and I sat at the one on the end, a couple from Mexico who now live in DC sat at the middle table, and a guy from the UK sat on the other side. He was really funny and the couple was very nice and we had a great time. The Mexican guy wasn't going to paint, he said he couldn't draw or paint, he could only draw buildings and the UK guy was all if you can do that you can do this! The UK guy had been on the boat a while and had taken the classes every day and so we bullied the other guy into trying. Well not too much bullying, he caved in and decided to try pretty easily. I think he had a good time too. We all had so much fun.

I don't know that I love the picture, I didn't love the example one the lady had, but it was fun painting again after such a long time! I am definitely going to go again tomorrow and hopefully my fellow passengers will be there as well. The painting tomorrow looks so much more difficult than the one today so we shall see how it goes!

I thought the class was only an hour long, but it was two hours! I had eaten breakfast early and I am trying not to eat all the things so I didn't have a giant on, just fruit and bread and veggie bacon and sausage. Well...tomorrow I will definitely have to have a snack before class! By 11:!5 I was getting really hungry and starting to get sick. I thought it was just because I needed food, but then I came back to my room and dropped my stuff off and then I was fine so...maybe motion sick because I needed food? I don't know. We shall see how tomorrow goes and if I start feeling sick again! It doesn't make sense that I would as it is on a lower deck and more towards center and I'm fine in my room that is up higher and farther forward...

After class I ate way too much at lunch as I was starving, but there were these delicious spinach turnovers that were very tasty...so then I was so full I didn't want to do anything and I sat and read for a bit before chatting with my friend online (which was really nice as it has been forever since we chatted!). By the time we were done chatting I was trying to decide if I was hungry enough for dinner or if I wanted to go walk around deck some, and I was standing on my balcony looking at the water and a dolphin swam by right under my balcony! Close to the top of the water so I could see him! Well then I had to go up on deck and spy on the animals and there was another one that swam by as soon as I got up there! I was too slow with the camera, but if I see more maybe I won't be next time!

I wandered the deck some, but didn't see any more and then decided I should eat some food before it got too late. I was going to spy on the show downstairs, a dancing thing, but I have an advanced copy of the new book by one of my favorite authors so I have been sitting here reading instead.

Oh, and this morning when I was walking around 8 (when I normally was swimming on the way over) there were so many people in the pool! It was full! I wasn't going to swim today, give myself a bit of a relaxing day, but if I had wanted to I would have had to wait for someone to leave! Plus there were a lot of people jogging on deck which I don't think I saw anyone jogging on the way over. So maybe this is a sportier group this time. We shall see tomorrow if they are still swimming and jogging if the weather is not as nice!Read more