Cruising the North Atlantic Ocean, Again

Clay was up walking deck 7 before sunrise again. The light around the curtains woke me shortly before he returned about 6:20 am. Breakfast at Marketplace started at 7:30 am. They had no bananas today for Clay's usual sandwich. Fortunately, he had already announced he intended to surprise me with his breakfast this morning. He'd evidently planned a ham, spinach and mushroom omelet with cheese. They were out of spinach, too. I had yogurt, honey and granola as usual since they've had a paucity of yogurts without full fat or citric acid.

We have evidently left our miraculous smooth sailing seas behind. We are in some rougher water now. It isn't terrible but we're feeling it. The swimming pool still had water in it this morning but the waves were big enough to cause wet decks and closed ropes across the entries. Oh well, it was fantastic and appreciated while it lasted.

Mid-morning Clay spotted whale blows while reading on the balcony. He didn't really see any whale parts even with binoculars and neither did I. We must have seen at least a half-dozen different whale's blowing though given the timing and spacing. My online searching indicates perhaps they were dwarf sperm whales at this time and place and blow description. Exciting. It has been days at sea without any sign of life other than fishing boats.

We have rejected Waterside's menu tonight and have reservations at Silk. That will make 3 straight nights away from Waterside and Clay fears it will cost us table 6 there. It won't bother me as we have less than 2 weeks to go now with 2 more Black Tie nights.

Clay went online to doublecheck our first flight home and found that somehow we don't have assigned seats. In our fare class there were only 5 seats left. The only 2 together were an extra fee over the normal seat choosing fee for the exit row. I balked. BA can give us any 2 seats they have left unassigned at 24 hour prior online check in at no extra charge. It is just over a 2 hour flight from Nice to Heathrow so if we have to sit apart, I won't like it but I'll survive for 2 hours.

There was an unannounced specialty theme at Marketplace buffet at lunch today. Filipino. Clay liked it. He found this morning's missing spinach in abundance at lunch. I found some lukewarm butter chicken. We avoided the special desserts and went to Scoops instead.

I'll assume nothing else of note and post this now.