Thursday, Day 103 - Apr 19 - Cruising the Atlantic Ocean

We had another restless night. The room is just too warm for us too sleep well. We are having a hard time understanding why they all of a sudden have turned the temperature up! Daniela calls the room to see if we want to meet with the Chief Engineer this morning. Carolyn tells her we don’t see any reason to have another meeting....it is the same problem we had the first week or so and again out of Singapore. We have already met once over it and they fixed the problem twice now! The engineer just needs to lower the temperature back to where it was when he decided to move it to a warmer setting a week ago! The whole ship is too warm. This may have been a mistake and maybe we should have had another meeting, but we just don’t see any reason to waste our time and his too the solution is so simple!

Another sea day with our usual routine. We go to breakfast and Dick goes to hear Terry’s talk, “Atlantic Armada” - The Falklands War 1982 - Maggies War.” There is no Quilling today as we have the mid-cruise refresher muster drill. Carolyn spends the morning reading and she and Dick go get a cup of soup for lunch.

Dick spends the afternoon doing some business on the computer and Carolyn goes to Julie’s card class. She shows us another tea bag folding design. We all like the paper folding cards!

At 6PM there is a special pre-dinner show for the gold and above Seven Seas Society-members, “Down South America Way." We get a drink from the bar and go, but for some reason it doesn’t get started until 6:15PM and the music is really not to our liking so we leave and head on to dinner. We are not too hungry. Vishnue suggests the veal medallions for Dick and Carolyn has cold boiled shrimp and a baked potato. The veal dish looks really good, but Dick says it wasn’t to his taste. It was just OK. The dining room has cooled down finally. Hope they don’t mess with it again. Now if our room will get cooler maybe we can sleep better.

The seas have calmed down some, but walking is still a bit of a chore. However the Captain is saying we should have balcony sitting weather tomorrow.