Day 35
Today is a
very welcome sea day for me as I woke up this morning feeling worse than
yesterday. Except for a visit to the
Neptune Lounge while our room was being cleaned, we spent the morning in our
room. I tried to nap and Val read until
it was time for lunch.
After
lunch, the second round of the slot tournament was being held so we did go down
for that. Val did very well and moved
into second place. I did get on the
leader board, but it is pretty unlikely I’ll stay there as my point total was
not very high. After that Val was off to
trivia and I went back to the room.
My cold has
made me tired and feeling rundown, but I decided I needed to do something so I
spent some time updating the blog and continued to sort through our recent
pictures. After going to trivia, Val
went to a port talk on our first to ports on the Amazon. I am feeling worse and decided not to go, but
to spend the rest of the afternoon resting.
As the
afternoon progressed, I felt worse and worse and decided not to go to trivia,
dinner or the casino tonight. We grabbed
some snacks in the Neptune Lounge and then Val was off to the evening trivia
and I went to be very early. Hopefully
this is the worst of it and I’ll start feeling better tomorrow. We still have two days before our next port
so I’m hoping to be ready to go by that time.
Monday, March 11
Day 36
Today is
another sea day or rather sea and river day as we’ll be entering the Amazon
this afternoon. I woke up feeling a bit
better, but still not great. I spent the
morning resting while Val caught up on her e-mail. At noon, we went to lunch in the Lido and
then Val was off to trivia. I rested for
a while then decided to do the blog for the day. I also finished sorting through all the
pictures we have taken and eliminated a lot of them and then backed everything
up.
I felt
better in the afternoon and think the worst of my cold is over, but we did
spend the rest of the afternoon resting and reading. In the late afternoon, we reached the mouth
of the Amazon and made a turn to the left to head up the river. The captain said there was a sandbar at
the mouth of the river and we had to time our entry with the tides and current
to make sure we didn’t run aground. He
also said that in the morning we would have to anchor briefly while two river
pilots were brought aboard who will be with us while we are on the river.
We kept
checking outside to see if we could see anything, but the mouth of the Amazon
is very wide and we couldn’t see anything on either side or in front of
us. I’m not sure how they determine when
you are in the Amazon or still in the Atlantic.
We got back
into our usual dinner routine tonight, but we still weren’t at full strength at
trivia as Gabriella now has the cold. I
finished the night with another forgettable night in the casino, but Val kept
up her winning ways. When we returned to
the room we were happy to see a notice that the ship's clocks will be moved back
one hour tonight meaning an extra hours sleep tonight; hooray. Tomorrow will be a day of cruising the
Amazon before we reach our first port on Wednesday.
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