I woke up refreshed after a much needed good night sleep, ready to confront the breakfast stampede. I opted for scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee - quadruple strength, killer coffee, as I discovered. That stuff was steaming hot and rough as guts. I think the crew must have designed a special brew to keep them awake, alert and to prevent them from going insane from spending long periods of time on the ship. Claustrophobia, which usually doesn't effect me, set in pretty fast. Despite the enormity of the ship, the dim lights, low ceilings, crowds and endless corridors were starting to drive me crazy - and it was only the beginning of day 2...
After breakfast those who wanted to gathered for a game of trivia, which I really enjoyed. I soon discovered that another way that the crew pass the time is to develop dirty minds - one trivia question was supposedly "very, very hard" ... it turned out to be a question about when Viagra was invented. At the end of the trivia we were told that there were a few "ship prizes: to be won, and a number of people cracked up laughing. The guy who said it looked up and repeated "ship prizes", emphasising the P in ship.
Lunch was some kind of soup - pumpkin, I think, and a roast beef, ham and cheese roll, and then we went to watch a live comedian. Comedy doesn't really amuse me, but I got a few laughs, so it was worth going to.
For dinner I had a blue swimmer crab cake with a lime vinaigrette and some julienned vegetables followed by a fruit platter for dessert.
After dinner it was time for the Gatsby Party - something I had been looking forward to since booking the cruise. I had bought my outfit - a reddish purple satin pants suit which Hannah unstitched to make a dress - the day before the cruise, and was looking forward to wearing it, along with a sequinned purple strip of stretchy material, which I wore as a headband.
The party was fun, and it was interesting and amusing to see people dressed up in all their different elaborate outfits. After a fun night of dancing, I was more than ready to tumble into bed as soon as it finished.
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