Why? sometimes it is as simple as knowing what city to plug into your electronic device in order to have it give you the correct time as you sail across an ocean or fly from one continent to another. But then, I have a tendency to set most of the parameters on my electronic devices manually. Admittedly this has become more an more challenging as the device designers are increasingly restricting access to as much as possible. I don’t think the time zone setting challenge is just restricted to those of my/our age group – I have met more than a few quite a bit younger who have the same issue.
Of interest, it doesn’t seem to be an issue for the crew. Of course, they are not walking around with their personal phones in their hands, starting at the screens every other minute. The ship obviously has rules which the crew is respecting/obeying. It also might help that the crew on the ship are all experience and were selected for this first sailing.
Why am I bringing this up? Two reasons – the first relates to the fact that six hours of change had to be accounted for on this cruise. Spain being on European Central Time and Miami on US Eastern Standard Time. The second is that we have yet another hour of difference to shed between now and Monday afternoon.
I just double checked our time in Freeport. It is late afternoon (1600) on the day before we dock. Why? It seems more than a bit silly to me – a few hours in port when most of us are more interested in organizing and packing.
Otherwise – knowing your way around the ship also pays off. There is comfortable seating protected from wind and rain on the aft decks of 5 & 6. I sat there for a while this afternoon before attracting a chatty woman whose husband apparently has been ill for most of the cruise. Dinner was back on Deck 7 at the Star Grill – I had a reservation card appear in my door this morning. Ok – I hadn’t made a reservation but why not? I assumed that a couple of friends had made it and included me. Finding them on deck just before 1900, it turns out the same thing had happened to them – and none of us had made reservations at all…..Dinner was lovely anyway.
On the cross-stitch side – I had started “The Coffee” by CrossStitchwithArt on Etsy a day or so ago. It was one of half a dozen patterns that I was considering. Obviously with fabric and floss substitutions.
Where I started this morning.
And where I finished this evening.
