Friday January 10

This is our first selfie of the vacation taken from our balcony while the Island Princess was still in port at Fort Lauderdale. We had a great evening meal sitting at a table next to a couple from Montreal who were speaking a mixture of French and English. Huette was the woman’s name and we talked about the cycle of naming children. She said Huette was once a popular French name for girls but now like Linda there are no little Huette’s. Her husband was Louie and he was very knowledgable in wines so he and Steve got on well.

The evening show at the theater was Steve Morris a guitar comedian who was an opening act for The Beach Boys for over 20 years. His comedy routine was hilarious but then he sang his favorite Beach Boy tune and he really had a great singing voice. He will be doing another show later in the cruise which we will make a point to attend.

Today since breakfast we have been busy. First a lecture about the history of Cartagena our first port. Then I went to the Knitters gathering and reconvened with Steve at 11 for line dancing.  We are now taking a room break watching the rather rough seas. The temperature is 81 but the wind is gusting at 51 knots.  We have sailed 365 nautical miles and we are north of Cuba now.

This afternoon we are going to a Discovery at Sea lecture titled Rome’s Eternal History. We thought this might be interesting since we are planning a visit to Rome in October. Then we will be attending the cruise critic meet and mingle followed by trivia. Dinner is the first formal night followed by the cast show titled “Do you Wanna Dance”. 

Hopefully our non-lunchtime downtime will be my blog time so more pictures from today will be posted tomorrow.