Notvery good or exciting photos... its all on to stay upright let alone record theexperience.....
In the middle of the Norwegian sea and it was extremely wavy.... at at best it was 5 meters and at worst it was over 8. There were a lot of quite sickly people on board. To be fair we weren't too bad but we did have to resort to sea sickness tablets.
We crossed the Arctic Circle and the ships entertainment team put on the crossing ceremony. To be honest I had forgotton and when I walked into the Lido deck tbere were so many people there I thought we must be getting ready to abandon ship🤣🤣🤣. But no, it was worse - the team were all dressed up as neptune and pirates and after chasing various staff members round the (emptied) pool, to behead and ice them - they then started inviting guests to have ice cold water put down their backs to celebrate crossing the circle. ... I declined. But its another one of those surreal ship experiences....
I went to a much depleted art class where people were a tad fed up about how much rough the sea was. I think that was why the captains cocktail party was so poorly attended and also a very quick affair... not quite as much drink on offer but the canapes were tasty.... it was formal night so we were a bit dolled up - we went into dinner... the plates, cutlery, tableware kept skidding about the table - water glasses giving scary indications of the angles we were leaning into... not condusive to eating really.
The ship was pitching and rolling - the skies were cloudy and stargazing was cancelled so I took to what should have been my safe haven - my bed, and had an early night. Dr Fred sat stoically in the chair trying to read.
However, For us in the front cabin the movement was fairly extreme... there were times we felt we were levitating off the bed again. But more troubling was the noise, it's a combination of things moving about in the front of the boat, in the space next door to us... possibly the anchor, possibly some seriously heavy machinery. I don't know but it sounded like it was crazy in there - but there's also the water hitting the side of the ship which just BOOMS. Above us more crashing and banging. The boat just shuddered and juddered and swayed and at one point things started falling off the table. I was starting to catastrophize... should we get dressed just in case 🤣🤣.. it wasn't a particularly pleasant experience, I think this is probably the last Norwegian Cruise I will ever do.
The photography speaker on board claims we are almost certain to see aurora at the weekend - the forcast is good in every sense of the word so hopefully this will make this worthwhile.
Meanwhile we stagger about..... looking for our sea legs 🤣.
That looks a little bit tamer than the equator ceremony I sent you the pics of :)
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies re the sea state, sounds like your cabin might be up near the chain locker. I kind of used to like the wave slaps and the hitting the "speed bumps" but they can be rather disconcerting. Hope things calm down and you get some good rest. As for the food may I suggest (if possible) building a defensive outer-wall of mashed potato or rice around your plate and putting the rest of the meal in the middle - much less likely to lose stray peas etc that way :)