Day 3, At Sea

Evening all. So today was spent "At Sea" which roughly translates to eating, sleeping, more eating and more sleeping. We both slept exceptionally well last night and didn't wake up until 8.15 this morning. We were straight down to the restaurant to be served breakfast. Ooh how I've missed the Lemon Danish Pastries, so much so I had 2 which I thought was really good of me as I turned down the third one :). We have been very lucky with the weather today, beautiful sunshine all day and fairly warm, around 20 degrees, I was even on deck in a T-Shirt, I'll take that. I've been storing it up for the coming days. We spent the morning on deck, Sharon watched some garbage film about weird kids in some hotel, I took that as a que to sleep a bit more out on the deck, wake up and go get a hot dog. We then had a wander around the ship and a drink or two to keep us going before having lunch outside at the back of the ship. The lunchtime briefing from the captain wasn't the best news we've ever had, he pointed out that tomorrows forecast was heavy rain, thick cloud and winds of up to 60 miles an hour with waves around 4 meters. Whilst he doesn't think it will affect whether we dock at Lerwick tomorrow, he cannot guarantee it. So Bridget, I fully understand Uncle Tony's thoughts about Lerwick and its weather. He also advised to check everything was stowed safely as we are going too sail through some rough seas during tonight. Fab !! We spent the afternoon looking for the hidden door on one of the decks to get us out on to the top of the bridge, deck 15 front is the place to go. We were out there by ourselves and the view was simply beautiful. So quiet and not a soul in sight. Afterwards we went in the hot tub out on the deck for a couple of hours, we had them all to ourselves and the sun was shining, it was lovely. Another crappy film on though, this time about weird animals which escaped all over the world. There's a theme developing here - weird things on the Telly, King Arthur tonight so that's out !! After getting out of the tubs, we had a small snack and spent the last couple of hours soaking up the last bit of the sun at the back of the ship with a cuppa and a cake before heading back to the cabin to get ready to go out for dinner. So as you've probably guessed, eating sleeping and soaking up the sun was today's job, very relaxing and we are loving it. It's currently 10.30pm and we are about 170 miles to the East of Edinburgh heading North, no sign of the rough seas yet. So that's it from us, anyone trying to contact us will be struggling, we cant get any texts or phone calls and email isn't playing ball. Internet is extremely slow and very limited. Over and out for tonight, back tomorrow evening all being well, unless we've sunk in the storm !!Read more