Go to any lobby of a venue, go out on the deck around the pool in the sunshine, ride the elevator down and look into the Library as you pass Deck 9, or go into a bar or eating spot at a time when that place is not busy with customers, and you will find these masters of the relaxed class of passengers doing their thing.
The veranda of our stateroom was our favorite place to chill out. With plenty of sunshine and always an ocean breeze, it was perfect for all of these personal activities or just for a quick nap in a chair.
The Daily Sudoku and the Daily Crossword were available near the Guest Relations Desk on Deck 3, and you needed to get them quick, because they ran out a lot of the time. I usually managed to pick these up right after breakfast. You could always tell which day of the cruise you were on by the number of the puzzle. You could also use these to remember just where you were on that day. It seems that we were on Day 9 which meant Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, a day where the sea was pretty rough, and we stayed on board because the smaller boats that took people to the Island were bumping along to the shore. The ship's captain had also informed us that no wheelchairs or scooters would be allowed on the tenders, and that people with difficulty walking and with balance probably should not try the Island excursion that day.
There are a couple of other things on our veranda table.
The first, Alexander McCall Smith's book The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, is a book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. I believe this is book 14, and Mayre and I were reading it together during the trip. When I say "reading together" that translates into "Don is reading the book aloud", and we are both enjoying the story. I believe there are now 16 books in the series, and they really define "light reading".
The other reading material is found on my Kindle. I mentioned in a previous post that I was in the process of reading David McCullough's book, Path Between the Oceans, the story of the Panama Canal. I did not finish that book until we arrived back at home, but it was enjoyable from the point of anticipation in seeing the actual canal, the comparison of the descriptions in the book with the reality that we experienced, and the pictures in my mind (and on my camera) as we finished out trip toward home.
The other book on my Kindle that we read was The Moravian Daily Text, a devotional Bible Reading plan put out by the Moravian Church. This we tried to use as our days began.
Books and puzzles, simple things that made the trip.
And kept us from spending all our time in the Cafe…(at the dessert bar)
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