Day 2 - At Sea

This was our second day at sea - it takes a long time to sail to Jamaica!

See our previous post as this day, too, involved a lot of lying in lounge chairs and strenuous lifting of forks. However, out on the deck today were a couple of interesting things: an ice carving demonstration which is made even more interesting when you see it being done in 90 degree weather. This guy started out with a block of ice and in less than 5 minutes, with water just pouring off as it was melting, he created a dragon! Hard to tell what exactly it was from the pictures, but it was cool.

Also, while I was sitting in my poolside lounge chair, looking out to sea, I noticed something in the water a good distance out from the ship. I couldn't tell exactly what it was, but it was leaving a noticeable wake behind it and it was swimming faster than the ship was moving, which was pretty fast. I got up to take a closer look.

People were starting to crowd around by now and I stopped a bartender in the area (they're ALWAYS in the area) and asked him what he thought it was. He said it was a whale and didn't seem too surprised by it. Maybe that happens more often than you'd think in the Caribbean. The whale swam alongside the ship and eventually overtook it, cut across to the other side of the ship and continued on it's way. Eventually it was out of sight.

That evening, we ate a very yummy dinner - I don't remember what, exactly, but they were all yummy - and saw the Carnival production "Les Formidable." This was one of their best shows all week and the singers and dancers really did an awesome job. I don't have photographs of any of the shows as they don't permit flash photography or videotaping of them.

We returned to our room that evening to our turned down bed and the towel animal of the day.

We turned in for the night then. We were exhausted, as all that food and sun really zaps your energy and we had to have a good night's sleep and get ready for Jamaica the next day!