Thwarted, Again

Last night was some rough sailing. There were barf bags out today. We didn't know if that was partly due to the Captain's complimentary cocktails from 6 to 8 pm last night or the ship's motion. Terrace was pretty empty last night and this morning.

Today we pulled up in sight of the Dominican Republic to our anchorage. We dropped a tender and opened the tender dock in the hull. The rough surf washed over Riviera's dock. The Captain canceled the port. Country #97 will have to wait. It looks less certain that I'll make it to 100 countries by 2/26. The real irony here is that we were ashore on the same island in January but this island is occupied by 2 different countries! We visited Haiti then and missed Dominican Republic today. You can see it from here, but it doesn't count. Ship happens.

I got a bonus needlepoint kit. The CD announced that all canceled excursions would be refunded automatically. When RCI cancelled Jamaica they refunded excursions and port fees and taxes automatically. We'll wait and see what happens here on Oceania. They are still struggling to catch up with accounting errors due to our gaining Silver O Club status and them deciding to combining our 3 cruise bookings once we got onboard. We'll see.

The CD said they'd issue a new Currents with sea day activities but it hasn't come yet. Clay has been spending the bulk of the last days and nights listening to audiobooks that all came off hold to him at the same time. Hopefully, he is caught up and we can watch some movies with our bonus sea day.

The Captain mentioned trying to get to our next port early. He doesn't know if the port will allow it or not. We've visited Philipsburg, St. Maarten before and have a ship's tour booked there so it won't matter to us. St. Barts is our next tender port and we won't care about missing it either.

We have a dinner reservation for Jacques at 6:30 pm tonight. Otherwise, we have nothing on our schedule today. For fun, you can look at some example menus.

I'm going to assume that Clay won't have any photos today and that nothing else newsworthy will happen and publish this now.