May Day

Our first day at sea was a lazy day for almost everyone.  We have been going non stop since we left on 4-21-13 and everyone was exhausted.  It was fun to be lazy today and get up late.  We planned to meet Kay for lunch in the dining room so Debbie and I got a latte and a pastry at the specialty coffee bar (that doesn’t serve just coffee).  We met Kay in the dining room for lunch at noon and had a nice lunch being served instead of trying to balance the plates handed to us by the crew until we can find a table.  This has been an issue for many reasons but the lines to get anything on lido at the buffet are horrible because you are not allowed to touch anything yourself and must tell the crew member what you want and if you want a sandwich he has to put all every ingredient on there for every person in line so it just takes forever.  We thought this would only last a couple days into the cruise but here we are a week later and it is still a disaster.  Every day there is something else to add to the list of things wrong with this cruise.  People are very unhappy considering this cruise was expensive by normal cruise standards and is supposed to be a luxury line.  Even Debbie who is normally the even tempered one of us is like a volcano  that is ready to erupt at any moment.  I will list out tomorrow the things we have written down just so you can get a feel for what is going on.   We went to the casino this afternoon for a while and both Debbie and I did well playing the slots (this means we didn’t win but didn’t lose much either and had a little fun while we played).  Kay was off listening to a guitar player at the Lawn Club.   Debbie and I decided to go to the martini bar before dinner and get a drink and we did.  The waitress took our cards and disappeared and didn’t come back for 15 minutes making us late to dinner.  Unbelievable.  It has been one stupid thing after another.  Our dining room waiter and assistant are good and pleasant.   We enjoyed dinner and went to the show which was a production show.  It was great and one of the cast acted as if he was a passenger in the audience and was climbing over others and then changing seats.  He actually was very funny and this all was incorporated into the show.  Debbie wasn’t feeling well and I was tired so we came back to the cabin after the show and went to bed.  These are the flowers we bought in Haleakala from the back yard garden for $4.  They had a box there to put the money in.  The last photo was taken from the elevator and you can see the library bookshelves are empty.  Those went with the nurovirus as well.