Queen Mary day 7

Phew today was a day! I couldn't get to sleep last night so I woke up super late this morning (almost 9) and was so tired it was like there wasn't even a thought of trying to go swim then. So I got some breakfast and went down to the watercolor class to see if there was anything else I could try and paint today (it was just a day to finish up things you didn't in class) and I got there and the teacher was super sick! I was like well...maybe I will just sit in the back of the room and find something to paint myself...so then the teacher is all I am super sick, don't get too close in case it's catching, but if you are done with everything and you want you can come up and gather round and paint a face with me! So lots of people went up and got in nice and close and I was like does no one care about getting sick anymore?? Like even before covid I would have stayed away as I don't want to get sick...it is so odd to me. So I was sitting in the back and got my stuff out and the lady sitting behind me kept turning her head and coughing basically on me and I was like okay. This is not working out today, I am tired, I am going to just go back to my room.

So then after relaxing for a bit I thought I would go see if the pool was free to swim. It wasn't at first so I walked around deck a few times, and the clouds were crazy when I was walking around, and then the upper pool cleared out and only one guy was swimming laps in it so I said perfect! And jumped in too. Well after a bit this big group of older German people decided to get in the pool and I thought there is not enough room if they all want to lap swim...we shall see how this goes! Well they didn't want to lap swim, they just wanted to hang out, and the other guy got out just as they were getting in. So no problem, I started swimming as close to the one wall as I could figuring they can have the rest of the pool. Well...they decided to spread out perpendicular to me so I literally could not swim to the other side!!! It was like really? You can't spread out parallel to me? It is not like the depth really changes and it is really shallow on the one end or something...so they finally gave me a tiny space to swim by and I checked my watch and it had been almost 15 min so I said fine. I am just going to leave (as one of them started coughing up a storm - luckily the wind was blowing their germs away from me). So that was fun, but I did get a swim in. I just don't understand how people can be so self centered...

So then after lunch I went down to the little art show and I figured some people from class would be there and we would chat a bit or something, but no one was there! So I left, then went back to pick up my pictures after a bit and headed outside...and as soon as I stepped outside I thought this one wave looked kind of funny...and it was dolphins! They kept swimming right up close to the boat! They were playing in the waves and swimming all around!! It was so much fun! At one point there was a big group of at least 10 swimming around! There were also rainbows in the splashes from the waves of the ship which I enjoyed as well.

Then trivia today was all movie related! So I was the ringer on the team! It was funny what movies the couple I played with had never seen or heard of! (That is the three of us in the photo). They were so nice and afterwards the lady asked if I had seen the photo scavenger hunt and I hadn't so she was showing me and I knew where a couple of them were and she knew where a couple of them were so we wandered around trying to find the other ones and I went by a lot of places I hadn't been before! I thought I had explored everything, but definitely not! I didn't find them all, but I found lots of fun things (like puzzles set up for anyone to work on if they wanted). So that was fun.

Then this evening Dana Monique had another show so I went to that and had a blast. Dancing and singing and just having so much fun! Everyone was up and dancing and it was another great evening!

So this morning was lazy and kind of annoying, but this afternoon was wonderful and so much fun! Tomorrow we get to Southampton in the morning and most people are getting off (they said 800 something were staying on so like 1,800 people getting off). I plan on getting off and wandering Southampton a bit, maybe get some lunch, then back on the boat. I'm going to wait to see about swimming until I get back on board as I don't want to do too much and be exhausted on my last day! So we shall see how it goes :)Læs mere