Alaska Cruise - Day 2: At Sea

We have a lot of travel planned this year so I decided not to take a vacation day for these two sea days at the beginning. Meaning: I get to test how good the Starlink internet actually is. (spoiler alert: quite good!)

Had a great night of sleep (8 hours+) - must be rocking that lulls me. It is definitely a more sway-noticeable cruise compared to the Caribbean ones we've been used to. But I got my scolopamine patches so all good!

Started the day with a bunch of work meetings at 8:30...I think it's amazing what Ian can sleep through.  The first few calls I did with video off, but when I turned it on for the last call, the other folks said the video quality was so good that they had no idea I was floating in the middle of an ocean. For the multiple hours I was in meetings, the internet only cut out once! And only for about 2 minutes. 

In between meetings, I managed to hit up breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea. As Ian says, he is amazed that all of the crew members aren't obese with all the food available on the ship.

High tea was pretty good! We convinced the kids to come by telling them that tea with a lot of milk and sugar was basically like boba. 

The scones with clotted cream and jelly and mini tuna sandwiches were also a big hit though!

We also managed to catch the champagne tower toast.

We also joined a bingo game (as expected, did not win, not even close), caught a stand up comedian show, and tried to win some diamond jewelry.  I was only two numbers off in that raffle - so tantalizingly close! 

The musical show tonight was not super impressive. Maybe I've just become a very critical critic for singing over the years, but I think the Disney shows generally had more talented people. Also being able to use the full song repertoire probably also helps. Case in point: Ian's favorite part of the show was the Colors of the Wind segment. 

Tonight the ship crosses the Pacific time zone boundary so our clocks go back an hour. Wouldn't be so bad except that I have a 9am Pacific call tomorrow -- guess I better head to bed on the earlier side tonight too. Adios folks!