This is a sea day. But what I meant to say is that there are a lot of reasons why people fail to maintain their weight or lose weight on a cruise. Now, if the food is horrible, this is not an issue. If it is your first cruise with a particular line, your lack of status usually means that you are spared various offering of food and drink delivered directly to your cabin.
I might have already mentioned being happily surprised when the room service person came back with a number of bottles of water to replace the bottle of wine (sparkling?) that I had politely but firmly refused about the second day of the cruise.
Since then there have been various deliveries of
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- plates of small snacky things
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- plates of canapes
- a cheese plate
Today was the crowning glory –
Just in case you can’t tell – there is a dark chocolate shell, caramel sauce, a chocolate dipped strawberry with almond. Inside the shell is a coffee flavored mouse with a dusting of expresso on top nestled on a bed of chocolate cake crumb.
I can sit in the cabin, stitch, relax and pretend that I am not a little old grey haired lady!
You still have a razor-sharp beautiful mind
And although I’m fairly fit, your trim fit body left me breathless in Greenland
Yes, some of the young ladies by the pool are better at giving the anterior pituitary a jolt, but you’re unmatchable at generating a lasting increase in PFC activity.
Yes, you’re literally a little old lady, but figuratively you’re in a class by yourself.