(Written May 17, 2011)
The Plague of Vomiting in a Formal Dress behind us (and hopefully any further Vomit Plagues), we’re still afloat, beautiful blue skies with scattered stratus clouds over head, unrealistically blue water all around. No more ship sightings, just open sea.
As of 12:00 ocean time (today two hours ahead of Eastern USA), the captain reported the following:
Longitude and latitude: 30.20 N, 61.45 W
Heading: .075 true ENE
Speed: 21 knots
Wind speed: 27-30 knots
Travel since yesterday: 475 nautical miles
Distance to next port: 2287 nautical miles
Closest land: Bermuda at 182 miles to the northwest
The Captain also informed us in his mid-day update from the deck that we’re traveling over the Bermuda Rise, which contains many extinct undersea volcanoes. Hmmm, my first thought was this, they were extinct, yes, but then Vacation Disaster Girl- who can wake up volcanoes as far away as Iceland as she prepares to fly to Europe, thus shutting down air travel for days—hasn’t traveled over them. Good thing Ed the Weatherman assured me the chances of the ship getting swallowed up by a giant tsunami caused be an undersea earthquake were slim, or I’d be a little worried about volcano-induced side effects…
Monster One is much better today. Sitting up on deck ten in the sun and wind reading Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman, though you’d think she’d lay off the vampire books being surrounded by so many potential Eastern European vampires, including our head server from Romania. Who, by the way, is short of short and portly and with his entire happy and bizarre nature reminds me of that old Saturday Night Live “wild and crazy guys” bit. He comes to the table and talks and before he walks off, snaps his finger, points his finger to the ceiling and says, “Sorin out.” So I’m also thinking of Sasha Baron Cohen here, but SNL (was it Belushi- I don’t think so but he reminds me of him as well) seems better here.
So nothing exciting. Seeing how we’re in the middle of the ocean (okay- technically not the middle) I guess I shouldn’t have expected more. That’s not to say the Monster One’s predicted “Al Qaeda war on the fishes and the sea” won’t happen. Still many days to go.
I do have to say that this morning, when I went to eat alone and Ali saw me alone he immediately asked how Monster One was, did she need anything, etc, and he was full of advice about how to combat sea sickness. This is one of the reasons I like cruising Disney- the staff is very good and they go out of their way to be on top of things and provide excellent service. So now, as per his advice, she’s wearing those ugly wrist things and has felt all right most of the day, though she avoided the Asian buffet (probably a good thing) and only ate cereal for breakfast. Good thing she paid for her own trip.
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