Day four or five depending upon if you count Southampton. (Southampton, at sea, at sea, Cadiz, at sea)
Let’s just say this day did not start out great. As mentioned previously, we got this fancy doing portable shower chair. Throughout its short history we have had trouble with it. I actually thought this time he had it fixed but that turned out to be not the case. This time, unfortunately, I ended up on the floor. And so did Mary. Mary transferred me into the chair and we’re working our way towards the bathroom. The transition from the main room to the bathroom has a home that you need to get over and at the top of that home is an aluminum transition. You really have to talk to get me up that little Kellen over that transition. Well, the aluminum of the chair was not strong enough to handle that so the one leg bent. When the one leg bent it through my balance off and I ended up falling into the side of the cabinet. Mary fell on top of me so we were both on the floor. Thankfully neither of us was hurt but there was no way she was getting me off the floor by herself. Not only did the leg abound, but the socket that it fits into was torn in half. It would probably be strong enough if you are going on a flat floor, but trying to get over that transition was just too much for. So now how do we get off the floor? Mary called the general number and explain the situation. I don’t think they understood at first so she had a call back and explained it again a little differently. This time I got their attention and the guy came to the door pretty quickly. It was not a medical emergency. The first guy called a couple of the guys and all of a sudden there were three people here. They lifted me up and threw me on the bed and disappeared. That’s what we wanted. It is the first time in probably 20+ years that I’ve been on the floor. Thankfully I still bounce pretty well. That was the start of our day. We will have to deal with the shower chair company when we get back.
After that fiasco, Mary got me up and we were ready to go by about 1030 or so. Mary wanted to go play bingo at 1130 so we headed that way first. We picked up the pictures at the picture lounge and then went to play bingo I guess there were three games and Mary didn’t win anything. That’s okay I guess. It’s the first time in several cruises since she’s played bingo. After bingo, we went to the dining room on five for English pub lunch. We both had fish and chips. I had a beer called Gem Ale I’ve deftly had better, but it was a new experience. The food was good. They had some type of bread pudding for dessert which was bizarre at best. Of course, we got into a conversation with people were sitting next to so we were there for a while. More people from England. Talking about health insurance – yada yada yada. After leaving them decided to go to a presentation on the camera called GoPro 7. It’s a pretty fancy video camera for capturing moments. We sat through that presentation about 45 minutes. It’s an interesting camera. I want to see how much it costs here on the ship. I might take the dive although I’m not sure. After the presentation on the camera we made it back up to the room. Mary closed her eyes for a few minutes while I start working on this log. By this time it was already time for the 330 bingo. I decided to stay back and work on this log. I ended up taking a micro nap though. We had some intentions of going outside today but based on things we did the fact that it was cool in the wind we decided to stay in. Mary did some investigating after the 330 bingo and found the sanctuary and gym. We have plenty of days to explore these more. On the Princess homepage it says it’s 86 out there but that doesn’t account for the wind off the sea. The lady we talked to at lunch that might be able to see dolphins so that’ll be something to look for I guess. Mary came back from bingo – she didn’t win – and she is sitting beside working on something right now. We’re going to get cleaned up and go to dinner.
We went down to the dining room. On the way there, there was one picture stop. We got our picture taken in our smart casual clothing. From there we went down to five to the dining room. We were seated in the same aisle that we sat all dinners so far. They pulled the bottle of wine that I did not finish the night before. We each had a glass of that. For an appetizer I had a salmon and crawfish dish. It was an actual crawfish on my plate but I didn’t know how to do it. Later, a lady seated across from me actually ate her crawfish. I saw her take it apart the way you should I just didn’t know this. For my entrée I had an Indian inspired dish. It was spicy shrimp. They serve with the yogurt sauce to calm down the heat. It was actually very good. Mary had salad and the chicken dish. She seemed to like it. I know mine was good. She had ice cream for dessert. I had some type of tart that was named decadent Drambuie a but I didn’t taste any Drambuie in it. We did run into some people that we talked a while. From there we walked down to the fixture place to discuss the go Pro camera. We wanted to go to the comedy show, but it was too busy. Instead, we walked back up to the casino. We wandered around there for a little while before I sat down and played some roulette. I only went for about four rounds. I made $15 and decided to get out of there. Walked over to the poker table but there was nobody there to play. We talked to the casino manager for a while to learn his history. Mary put some money in a slot machine. She did not make any money. We decided that at 930 we would go back to the camera place to buy the go Pro. We spent about a half hour with the lady. She said it all up for us. We spent time trying to figure out which attachment wanted. I ended up getting the jaw device. After playing with it today it seems like the right device. By time we were done with the demo it was about 11 o’clock. We need to go to bed. That was the end of day five. Going forward I’m going to go assumption that Southhampton was day one.