Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas Repositioning Cruise - Day At Sea Journal And Photos - November 28, 2006

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I woke up at about 9:00 AM and have spent the morning writing my journal describing yesterday.

It’s been a slow afternoon at sea. I called mom and dad at 11:30 AM after finishing yesterday’s journal and they were still in bed. I went and bought some of our photos at the photo gallery then went by their room. We got mom ready then went to lunch. The food is alright in the Windjammer Café but once you have been on their Voyager Class ships it’s hard to come back to the Vision Class ships. They have so much more room and you get way more variety on the Voyager ships.

After lunch we went down and looked at the art auction pieces then dad and I checked our emails. There was a trivia contest in the Schooner Bar at 2:00 PM so we decided to go to that first then watch the end of the auction. The trivia was completely New Orleans based trivia. If we had known that in advance we would have brought Clyde and Debbie with us as ringers. There was an English guy, Roy, who was looking for a team to join so I invited him to join our team once the team behind us didn’t let him join theirs.

Roy was as dumbfounded as we were at the New Orleans trivia. Talking to him we discovered he was a navigational officer on the QE II. Mom and dad told them they had cruised on the QE II twice and loved it. Well we finished our trivia and traded answer sheets with another team and miraculously we answered 10 out of 18 correctly. This actually earned us a second place finish to some team that no doubt lives in New Orleans.

We returned to the Centrum and watched the end of the auction from Deck 5. For the first time in four auctions we actually didn’t buy anything. I went to Ben & Jerry’s to get dad a milk shake and saw Debbie. I told her we missed Clyde and her for the trivia contest. She wasn’t sure where Clyde was at this time and came down and watched the end of the auction with us from our balcony seating.

After a grueling four hours of eating, trivia and watching art go on auction mom and dad went back to their room for a nap before dinner. I came back and caught up with the afternoons events in my journal. By the way my tail bone is really sore still.

After catching up with my journal entries I went up to the Solarium to hang out for awhile before getting ready for dinner. I had a couple of pieces of pizza and fries for a snack then did some swimming. The pool in the Solarium is salt water. One thing that contradicted what somebody had told me was they had opened up the roof area over the Solarium. I think it was somebody in the hot tub a few days earlier that told me this. Well they were wrong.

I got ready for dinner and decided to get an email ready to send all my friends. I wrote that I had found a girl in Curacao and was ready to move back there after the cruise to be with her. I added pictures of my new love to the email for proof. The pictures were of my new love Sarah the Sea Lion. That should get a few laughs.

We went to dinner and caught up with everyone’s day. Clyde apparently had been looking for us at the auction when we needed his New Orleans knowledge at the Schooner Bar trivia contest. We gave him at least three of the questions we had answered wrong and he knew them so we would have won. Still placing wasn’t that bad with a team of three Marylanders and one Englishman.

Carol had an interesting day. They asked her to teach a picked her to teach a water aerobics class at the pool. She was paid with a t-shirt and shipboard monopoly type money. John and she were looking for a free cruise as compensation. She might have to teach a few more classes to pull that off.

This was one of the more disappointing dinners. It was English themed. I had a fried cheddar cheese appetizer that was cold and if had been fried it was only for a couple of seconds. I followed that with my Caesar Salad, Roast Beef and the one outstanding item a pineapple sherbet.

Our new friends from Oregon crack me up. John had ordered the fried cheese also and when he was distracted by Eric, Carol stole a bite. Of course it was the first bite and fairly obvious. I joked with John that he can’t get a break with his food and his girls since Alison had eaten his crab cake. Carol said she had taught Alison everything she knows. The next funny family thing, well at least to the rest of the table, was Eric ordering two deserts like the rest of the table had been doing. Dad wasn’t very happy and gave him a choice of which one he could have. Mom and I were the lucky recipients of his extra dessert, a chocolate bread pudding that was pretty good.

They ran up to the family feud game right after dinner but we are taking it easy. I got mom and dad back to their room and then went to send my email. I also bought my model cruise ship and asked again about mom getting on a tender at the Purser’s desk. They said it shouldn’t be a problem. They will help her into the tender and off. It’s only about 9:30 PM but I’m calling it a night so I can get a good night’s rest to push mom around Grand Cayman.