First Sea Day

First sea day, which means we pretty much did very little. What a difference a day makes in the temperature though. When we left Rio, it was pushing 90 degrees. Today, much cooler, and there’s a fair amount of wind. Ship’s been moving a little all day long too. Not quite enough for them to empty the pools out, but I suspect it was getting a little close. With the wind, sitting outside on the Promenade deck was a little liffy, plus, one side of the Promenade was getting very wet from spray, and even the other was getting some. Annoyingly, the Star Princess seems to have benches along the Promenade instead of chairs or loungers, so it’s not going to be quite as comfortable to sit out there like I like to do.

Since it’s Christmas, tonight was the first formal night. During the Captains speech he was going over the number of people from various countries, and for the Americans, it was only around 720 people. That’s probably the lowest number of Americans that we’ve been on a ship with, except for when we’ve cruised the smaller ships. 400+ Brazillians on the ship, which isn’t really that surprising considering where we started from. I’m almost a little susprised they’re not doing announcements in Portuguese given that number.