The Dr Who Cruise Part 7

Saturday, 10/28 – Dayat Sea

We didn’t have anyreason to get up, so we didn’t set an alarm, and got up when we woke up, whichturned out to be about 8 AM. We went to the Main Dining room for breakfast,where Hubby was able to get Eggs Benedict, which he couldn’t get in the buffet.After hanging around our cabin until 11:30, we went to deck 5 to refill ourbeverage cups with soda at the pizza place. Then we went to the deck 3 MainDining room for lunch.

After lunch, we watcheda little tv in our cabin, then decided to go to the hot tub. Once I got into aswimsuit, Hubby confirmed that I had a bruise along my upper back/lower neck.Left-overs from the massage I’d gotten two days earlier. We found room in aninfinity-view hot tub in the Solarium, a section that is for adults only. Itried to get my bruises submerged in the water as much as possible, but I hadto hang on and squat, and the movement of the water tended to move me this wayand that. The water was agreeably hot, and after about 25 minutes, I decided Iwas done.

While I was getting outof the tub, I noticed a man come into the Solarium with his daughter in astroller. He paused right in front of the sign saying guests 18+ were welcometo rearrange the towels in the stroller so that his daughter would nap. Then awoman came in with her toddler son and stopped to stare at that sign. Sheturned to me and asked, “This is for kids, right?” I told her it wasn’t, andshe turned around and left. The man with the stroller was still there, andlater, as Hubby and I walked to the other side of the Solarium in search oftowels, the man came pushing his stroller among all the adults as if hisdaughter belonged there. Some people just don’t believe the rules apply tothem.

Then we went back toour cabin and packed as much as we could. As usual, we decided to carry themout ourselves, so we could toss the last few items in in the morning. Hubbydecided to go walking, and I decided to catch up with my writing. (Blogs don’twrite themselves, and neither do Works in Progress.)

After a while, Hubbyreturned with two photos. One he had bought from the couple who had organizedthe semi-group photo the night before, and a copy of the official group photofrom D, which was part of our membership. He told me he had been told that theyhad had the readings and autograph sessions at 3 PM, and nobody had known howto get hold of us to tell us, because D didn’t know our cabin number. This wasusually held after dinner on the last night, not the middle of the afternoon,but the last day wasn’t usually a day at sea. So we missed that activity andwere saddened, but we had the photos.

We took the photos withus to dinner, and Hubby borrowed a sharpie from Jon (monster) and flitted fromtable to table getting autographs. In fact, two or three of the monstersapproached him to give him autographed photos that they had prepared for us. Wecame back to the cabin with more photos than we had taken, which left usfeeling happier. Eventually, D will edit all the video and audio he took duringthe cruise into a CD, and we will get a copy of that CD as part of ourmembership. That will include the reading of the stories/scripts, soeventually, we’ll get to hear those, too.

So we set the alarm to get us up to get off the ship and turned in.