Day # 12 Sea Day.
Today we got up at noon! We set an alarm but since we lost an hour, we decided to be super lazy. We lounge in our room. The bed is so comfy.
Yesterday I forgot to do a journal entry we were in Costa Rica. I did not get up the boat because I had a raging headache and I felt super nauseous in the morning. It eventually passed later in the afternoon and I was fine thank goodness but I really regret not getting off and doing an excursion because I’ve never been to Costa Rica. Some people are showing me their pictures of an excursion they did and it made me really wish I had done one. Oh well, I guess we’ll have to come back here.
So today when \240we finally got up, we went outside and laid at the pool in one of those very comfy duo lounge chairs with the cushions. We talked to people throughout the day that sat down next to us, many different people. We had lunch. I had chicken skewers and steak skewers and they brought us our muffins and cinnamon rolls heated! We had those first with coffee. Needle ordered a burger for lunch and I brought my chicken and steak skewers over to the lounge chair area. We had our coffee there with our pastries and our lunch there as well.
There’s a married couple on the boat from Vancouver. The man is 90, but you would never know it. He looks more like 70. We have had lots of long talks with him and his wife. They are fascinating. They bought a piece of land 55 years ago in Vancouver and built a house and they’ve lived in it ever since. It’s right on the water and they have 1.5 acres of water. They told us the most amazing things like she brews beer. You would never in 1 million years believe that because she does not at all look like a type that would even drink beer, but she said that she bruise it for him five different kinds, and he only has one glass a day! They’ve told us so many stories that are absolutely fascinating.
There’s another couple from Belgian. They are my age or maybe a little bit older. They are really nice and funny. The husband told Robert that his wife doesn’t speak any English. Which is so funny because it’s not true. He’s a real jokester.
Then we have these friends from Long Beach, Mark and Melanie. Melanie is the one who I swim in the ocean with in one of the ports and we spend a lot of time talking to them. They are also traveling with a friend of theirs with a single passenger he unfortunately lost his wife and they used to travel a lot to four of them, but I guess they with him on cruises. She’s reading a great book that she said she was gonna lend me after she’s finished. That would be interesting. I haven’t read a book in about 20 years!
Then there’s an Italian woman who I absolutely love. She’s probably about 70 but really tan and has been in the pool the whole time and we just laugh and laugh and laugh. She has a Italian name for me and this morning she was looking for me sadly I didn’t get to the pool until noon and she went back to her room because it was raining but she is fabulous and we have so much fun laughing together. She has a thick thick Italian accent and a lot of times I cannot understand her. She lives in San Francisco. She’s lived there for six years and before that she was in LA for 30 years. She was a professor at Pepperdine. She hates San Francisco because of the weather, but that’s where her son, her only child lives and she loves him and his wife so much so she says she’s stuck there until or if they ever move.
It actually rained today for the first time, but our lounge beds were covered so it didn’t matter. People were still in the pool in the hot tub, drinking their champagne. I went in the hot tub. It felt so refreshing sitting in there with the rain coming down.
We went up to the spa and had the most amazing time. I officially never wanna leave here. The people that work up there just catered to you the whole time. Outside of the steam room they have these three large glass containers of different salt scrubs. You take a handful of it and then go in the steam room and rub it all over your body. Including your face. Then you sit there and let it absorb into your body so it’s like an exfoliating scrub and it moisturize you while the steam penetrates your skin! It is so heavenly. As it dripped down your face, you can taste the salt.
Today in the steam room, we actually met another couple! At first we thought they were a little weird, but then we got to talk into them and they were super nice and funny! They live in the Long Beach area so got on the cruise there. They’ve done many other seaboards as well, and they are younger than the average Seaborn traveler. I would say in their 50s. I showed them the salt scrub and they loved it!
Immediately outside the steam room, there are these two showers that are really large and tiled and the rain shower above, I think it’s to get the salt scrub off. Then they have these warm massagers on the sides of the shower that spray horizontally. It is a heavenly experience. Needle laid in the serene room and the heated bed, and I went to the women’s changing room and took my normal every day shower. I left with a robe because I didn’t have a change of clothes other than my swimsuit.
Tonight for dinner we went to Solis. It’s only the second time we’ve been there. Technically you’re only supposed to go once a week. It’s the restaurant that replaced Thomas Keller. It’s a Michelin star chef Mediterranean style cuisine. The food was amazing. Definitely much fancier than any of the restaurants in the ship, which is why they only let you go once a week. I had Poo 🔼 your base and Robert had Blank.
We started with tuna a Greek salad and tzatziki sauce. They brought a gluten-free bread and breadsticks. The dessert was the best part as you can see it was covered in meringue and strawberries.
The Easter Bunny came!!! All this was in our room when we got back!!
