Sea Day 11

This is our next to last scheduled sea day. We have strong wind and waves from the starboard side again. It seems it doesn't matter which direction we are traveling in, the weather is coming from our side. According to the Captain, that and our full tanks are causing us to list to port. That's on top of the rocking, rolling and wobbling. The Captain announced that the tropical depression that he talked about last night grew up overnight and is now Nate. He says it is affecting us and will continue to for the rest of the cruise in all likelihood as we follow it to Florida. He reminded us that it was 6 foot swells tendering into San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua and that tomorrow there are 9 foot swells predicted for Grand Cayman. Tendering to Nicaragua was a nightmare we won't soon forget as it was horrific. We never did hear if independent guests ever got ashore there as the tendering of medical evacuations and excursion guests took precedence. It was 2 hours after clearance before we left and there were several tours to leave after ours so if independent guests did get ashore that day, they didn't have much time there. Clay has already said we should just stay aboard which is what I'm sure happened in Nicaragua. If it hadn't been my 79th country, I wouldn't have tendered that day. If I hadn't been booked on a ship's excursion, I am sure I wouldn't have tendered that day. We've already been to Grand Cayman and have nothing booked there. They could skip it entirely and we'd be happier about it. So, we'll have to wait and see. If he could get to Miami on Sunday with less rough seas, I wish the Captain would just scrub Grand Cayman and do it. I can't believe too many people could be upset as we didn't even have Grand Cayman on the itinerary until after we boarded. It was Key West on Saturday before we boarded. Stay tuned.

The big deal today is brunch buffet in the GDR in place of breakfast and lunch. The string quartet is playing. We didn't go. They kept normal breakfast and lunch in Terrace. We'd prefer dinner in Terrace tonight but it will depend on how much rougher it gets I think. We might have to go to GDR to stay low. Again, we'll see.

We've been watching movies. It hasn't been easy. Regatta has 3 movie channels. Each channel shows 3 movies in a rotation every day. Like today we have not seen and would like to see, Going in Style, but it airs at 5am, 11:30am and 6pm. So we were asleep, at lunch or at dinner when it aired. Out of the available films, a half dozen are in foreign languages, some are documentaries or horror films and we won't watch them.  There is a DVD player in our cabin and a list of DVDs. Unfortunately our DVD list and the one at Reception are not the same. We requested Emma and we were given disc 2 of 2 and they don't have disc 1. Then there is the issue of the remote control for the DVD player doesn't work so it gets even trickier. Come on Oceania. At least watching movies in the cabin should be effortless. We've worked to watch about 25 movies onboard.

We have Internet now so I will post this and if anything noteworthy happens later, I'll be back.