Life at Sea

Lee and I have always loved sea days and this cruise satisfied our desires....we had four days at sea at the beginning of the cruise and five days at the end. I know most people think that all you can do on those days is eat, drink, and lie by the pool....but let me tell you the real story! There are fitness classes, lecture series, spa tratments, enrichment classes, English Tea, etc. and we took advantage of almost all of them. We had world affairs lecturer Professor Louis Rene Beres who presented lectures on the middle east; Dr. Herb Keyser who presented lectures on Hollywood and its stars; Bill Rickert, former criminal trial lawyer and retired judge of Ohio, who gave fabulous talks on forensics and DNA; Celebrity lecturer Senator Bob Graham of Florida who shared his insights on citizenship, 9/11, and the upcoming 2016 election, just to name a few. By the way, Lee and I had a chance to schmooz with Senator Graham and his wife Adele. They were the nicest people...Adele wanted to get together for drinks after one of our shared shore excursions but we had to take a pass since we had dinner plans with our new cruising buddies Bob and Majie. Here is a picture of our cruise buddies who were a sheer delight to spend time with!

I took a Yamaha Keyboard class on our sea days and was just delighted with the program....I think a keyboard is in my future, Michelle! We attended fabulous English Teas...there was one devoted to Mozart and all the staff was in period costumes including the string quartet.

I have more to share but I will leave you with this funny story....We always have breakfast delivered to our stateroom...our room attendant Michael was just fabulous and got a kick out of our first breakfast request...apparently Lee filled out our form and added the words "for two" and guess what? We received two of everything on the menu! OMG! LOL! We became experts after that scenario.