Cruising the Indian Ocean, Day 3

Last night returning from dinner, either Clay's 6th sense of washer availability, or his new bossiness, kicked in and he decided we should do laundry now. Only 1 set of machines was in use when I got the hamper down there so it worked out well. The seas changed again over night. Instead of yesterday's chop, today we have big rolling 12 foot swells. The captain says they are predicted to decrease by half to maybe 6 feet. He says they still can't keep the water in the swimming pool.

A happy development. Our cabin stewardess quietly placed some odd turquoise-colored cans in our fridge. They are Coca-Cola No Sugar. They don't have the word Zero anywhere on them. In their continuing vein of changing formulas and obfuscating the fact, the ingredients listed are the same but the words of the ingredients have been replaced with numbers. I'll take one to Marketplace to have for lunch and we'll see if it seems the same to me. The yogurt situation remains abysmal and unchanged. So one step forward...

There is a new class at 10 am today, chair yoga. I am planning to attend. We are planning to go to the popcorn movie, Pork Pie, this afternoon. Tonight is casual again and we've already approved the Waterside menu. We turn the clocks back another hour tonight so it promises to be an extra long, lazy day.

I tried the new Coke No Sugar at lunch and I thought it tasted exactly like Coke Zero. So good for me. Day 3 and iceberg lettuce returned to the salad bar. Just in time for me as there was nothing else on the buffet that I wanted to eat. Good lunch. Poor dessert selection and we went to Scoops for ice cream. Clay says he'd picked ice cream for dessert tonight as that selection looks weak and now that means we have to go to Bistro after 7:30pm when they put out their dinner buffet with dessert of among other things a molten chocolate fountain. We have lots of time to think about eating!

We both spent a bit of time out on the balcony today. The only sea life either of us saw was flying fish. Clay really wants to see a whale. Me too, another.

We had a bunch of mail on the bed this evening. We had a letter saying they had changed the date of the WC event Mardi Gras Jazz to actual Mardi Gras isnstead of the previously announced Ash Wednesday. They will have Waffles on the Bridge on Wednesday morning 2/27. We'll get a timed invitation. They are showing the Academy Awards live on our TVs and in Stardust at 7am on 2/25. We can expect a mandatory face to face onboard immigration inspection when we reach Mauritius. And we'll be arriving later than scheduled in Richards Bay. None of this should really cause us any issues.

We had 2 invitations. For cocktails in the captain's quarters tomorrow at 7pm. Cruise Critic meet & mingle on 2/25 at 5:15. No RSVP required, we'll probably attend. We recently missed our Signature TA's hosted cocktail party for this segment. They are hosting a lunch at Mt. Nelson Hotel in Cape Town on transition day that we have RSVPed to attend. It will take from 11 am to 3pm according to the bus schedule so that is a full day. If we hadn't already been to Cape Town and not visited the hotel, we probably would not blow a day having lunch.