The Dr Who Cruise Part 2
Monday, Oct 23 – A Dayat Cocoa Key.
We got up at 7 and wentto the buffet for breakfast. The ship had docked at Cocoa Key, but hadn’t givenout any newsletters to tell us what to expect. We didn’t know when we could goashore, or even what deck we needed to go to in order to do that.
Sunday, I had walked12,250 steps, far more than the 2K I sometimes manage at home. My legs hadached all night and were still ackey, so I took a pain pill. But my legs stillbothered me at 10:40 when we left the ship to look around the island. It wasn’tlong before I admitted I needed to sit for a while. I found a lounge chair andsat down in the shade. Hubby went off to look around.
About 1 ½ hours later,when he came back, my legs felt much better, and I was more alert. He was tiredfrom walking almost 10K steps already, so he sat down to rest. I checked mysteps, and I had already walked 7K steps. Hubby rested for about 15 minutes,then we walked back to the ship.
We went to GuestServices to ask about internet service. We had brought a laptop for Hubby towork on, but we couldn’t get Word to work because it ‘couldn’t confirm we hadan account with Microsoft, so please connect to the internet.’ What a bummer.We don’t usually buy an internet package on a cruise ship because the serviceis so lousy. But he couldn’t work without Word, so we bought internet servicefor 1 day to see if that would solve the problem. After all, I had used thelaptop for a couple of weeks when my desktop died, and it had worked fine, butit was always connected to the internet during that time.
We took to our cabin theinstructions for signing in, and I sat down to work with the laptop, getting itonto the internet. Hubby laid down on the bed and fell asleep. He almost nevertakes a daytime nap. He woke up about an hour later and asked how I was doing.I was done, and Word was working perfectly. He rolled over and went back tosleep for another hour. So I changed some color settings to see if he could seethe cursor any easier. He had complained how hard it was to see a white cursoron a white background. I played some games, but the color was odd; red cardswere black, and black cards were blue.
Hubby awoke about 3,and we went to the pizza place for a bite to eat. After returning to our cabin,he worked on his stories, and I worked on my blog.
About 6 o’clock, weleft to explore a section of the ship we hadn’t been to yet, the Boardwalk. Ithad a carousel, a candy shop, a hot dog stand, a hamburger joint, a sports baror two and a rock-climbing wall, so it didn’t take us long to explore it.
We still had a ½ hourbefore meeting the others for social hour. We thought about going to thefloating bar and riding it from the 5th deck to the 8thdeck, but it had already left deck 5 and hadn’t yet reached deck 8. So wereturned to our cabin and got the special tumblers that proved we had abeverage package, and then came back for social hour. With a group as large asours, it’s hard to find enough chairs in any 1 bar, but we did the best wecould.
We had a nice dinnerwith 2 actors who played various monsters on Dr Who. Hubby did his interpretationof a social butterfly, flitting from table to table to talk to members of thetalent and some fan writers about some ideas he had for a story. After dinner,we returned to our cabin, worked for about an hour, and then turned in.
