Day 6 – At Sea (May 4)

The winds were strong in the morning and the sea still a bit rough but things died down somewhat as afternoon came. The ship isn’t pitching as much and the sea is much calmer. We passed through a brief shower and then a period of pure sun today, but mostly the ride had has been partly cloudy since we left Florida. The temperature has been in the mid to upper 70s.

We like spending part of the afternoon in the solarium (see picture), which is off limits to children and is blocked from the weather by a roof. We met a doctor and his wife yesterday who were from Peubla, Mexico. We were able to communicate partly in English and partly in Spanish.

The prohibition of children is not very restrictive as there are hardly any on the ship. It is a much older crowd than we have seen on other cruises, but I was warned before that the longer the cruise, the older the passengers would be and that seems to be true. We don’t see much of the older crowd as they are at the first dining and we are at the second.