Queen Mary day 4

Not many photos today, but it was a great day! Was up at 7 and for the first time I could feel the boat rocking slightly. We've had really flat water up until now I couldn't tell we were moving unless I looked outside (on the way over it was way rockier in comparison and much windier! And cooler!) I had my early mini-breakfast, went out to have a swim and the pool on deck 6 that I normally swim in had too many people already so I went up to the other pool on deck 8 and no one was in there! So I swam there and it was really nice! They play music up there as there is a bar as well so it was fun listening, though I again didn't pay attention and swam 20 min! I was really trying to not do that as I was going to dance this evening, but oh well. I never used this pool on the way over as it was WAY windier up there (and it was really windy on 6!) so I might try and swim up there again. We shall see how the weather is. We didn't turn the clocks ahead yesterday so I am guessing that is why it was so busy so early...

In class today we made some bookmarks which were fun, easy projects. The UK guy was back again which was nice. Apparently he goes to both of the classes even though it is the same thing both times (and he works on other paintings at the second class). He asked if I would come back for the afternoon one and I was like well...this room makes me a little sick so probably not. I just paint in my room. Also I was painting on the other half of the paper where I did my whale painting from yesterday as I had enough room and a lady came over and was like can I take a photo of your whale painting? It is so so good! It is amazing! I love it so much! I want to show it off to my daughter! Of course I was like yes, please do! But oh, that made me so happy!! That was such a high! So great day even if nothing else happened!

This afternoon I finished up my paintings and read a book I love then went up to play trivia with the same couple again. It was much easier this time so it was fun. There was one question - how many red stripes are on the American flag? They both turned to me as they are British and I was like okay, let me think. They were like so how many stripes in total? Do they mean something?? I was like yes, there are 13, but are there 6 or 7 red ones?? So that was fun - I contributed again!

This evening when I was getting food a lady came up next to me and said "Hello friend!" I was dishing up food so I said hello! How are you? And she was like good, blah blah, nice mask! And I looked and she was wear the same one I was! I was like oh! Yes! Mask buddies!! So that was fun. I always try and smile at the other people wearing masks, but they normally want nothing to do with that. I always wonder are they sick and have to wear it? Or taking precautions like me? But most sit down in the dining hall and take it off to eat so either way is not the best. But oh well. they can do what they want.

It was not foggy this morning and a gorgeous day all day. There were some clouds and they looked so soft and fluffy, but with darker undersides and I was like they look like our watercolor clouds! I did want to get back into painting and this class is definitely helping! I like it as well because I go in and there is something we are going to be working on and we do it. When I am at home I will just look at things forever trying to figure out what to paint...but I am going to try and be more decisive and just paint the first thing I see that I like. We shall see how it goes.

I wrote the above before the evening entertainment as I really thought I wouldn't do much. When I was boarding the ship I accidentally stepped in front of someone as I was reading the papers they gave me and not paying attention. I was like so sorry! Once I realized and we got to talking and she was very nice and I was asking about what she was doing on board and she is a singer! She would be performing! I was like oh, fun! And we talked about that some. She is on 38 boats this year! That seems like a lot, but it would be fun. Well she had her show tonight so I thought I would pop in and check it out. I really wasn't expecting much as most of the entertainment is not the best, but can still be fun, but she was amazing. I really thought I would pop down and spy and then come back to my room as I was kind of tired, but she was so great I ended up staying for the whole show. I was standing in the back dancing as she was singing such fun songs and people were standing in their seats dancing and the applause was so much more than I have every seen at one of these shows! Afterwards everyone was talking about how great she was so that was a fun surprise! She was also on season 20 of The Voice and was a semi-finalist - Dana Monique was her name.

Since I was already dancing and ready to continue I thought I would go over to the 70's band and dance to that! I mean I like 70's music! well...they played a lot of not very dance friendly songs so that was a bit disappointing. Like slow, but not slow dance slow? I don't know. It was the same lady singer from the way over, but the guy changed and he was much worse than the last guy, but if they are fun songs and I can dance I don't really care (as long as it is not painfully bad which it wasn't). But these songs were just meh so I danced a bit and now in bed almost on time. Tomorrow they are playing big band music so I am going to have to go check that out as I do love big band music. Alright off to bed for me! Such a great day!! Czytaj więcej