Indian Ocean sea days

The three sea days between Seychelles and Maldives sailed by quickly. Not only did we have the usual school time – math, ELA, social studies, science, computer science – but there have been other events and activities. On Thursday there was a “beat the officers” competition on the pool deck where passengers could take on the ship’s officers in table tennis, shuffleboard, golf putting, and so on. During this, GM Ludmila hustled the boys off for a whirlwind behind-the-scenes tour of the ship. On Wednesday evening there was an Oceania Club reception. We waffled on going to this, but after Dan and Jorge gifted DJ a captain’s hat we figured we had to go so that he could show that off to the captain and GM.

DJ has been rehearsing with the Sing Out Loud group, and they had their performance on Thursday evening. It was fantastic to see him up there in the front row singing along with the adults. During some of the rehearsals Thomas has been meeting with fellow passenger Nick, who had offered to help him learn a method to solve a Rubik’s cube.

We’re also making sure to get our exercise in. We’ll do 13 laps of the running track after every meal, which is one nautical mile (equal to 6076 feet, or about 1.15 miles). If it’s too hot at midday we’ll walk the halls inside, but it’s nicer to be outside if possible. Since we still haven’t gotten the boys into the gym we’ll also do some workouts in our stateroom.

We’ve gotten well ahead with the schooling, which is good as we’ve got a bunch of port days coming up. Maldives will be followed by two India stops, two Sri Lanka stops, two Thailand stops, and then this leg of the cruise wraps up in Singapore.Read more