Quick Update

I'll try to be short and sweet today because, you know, Current Events.  (You try REALLY HARD not to talk politics on a cruise unless you know who you're dealing with, but sometimes, you just can't help it.  Most folks were talking about what will happen to upcoming Caribbean cruises.  Windstar has a ship docked in St. Martin that is supposed to be unloading passengers and loading up for the next cruise, but the Venezuela not-official-war-thing has resulted in closing the airport there, so everyone is sort of wondering how Windstar is dealing with that.  I am keenly aware that the impact on Caribbean cruises is not generally your first, second, or even third thought when your government is trying to effectuate regime change in South America, but we do have friends headed there, and are sparing a thought for their safe travels.

Updates on previous posts:

We ended up only two points down in "progressive trivia."  (Conveniently, they decided the picture-of-a-crewmember thing was a multi-way tie, so we didn't lose any ground there.)  Today was "Authors" and we won that, but we're not sure how many points we gained on the team we're chasing.

Weather wasn't quite as bad as yesterday, but NOW they've closed the deck around the lounge with all the windowed walls.  I know this because it looked so much better, I thought I'd give it a try, but was stopped by this sign.  (It reads, "OPEN DECK CLOSED DUE TO STRONG WEATHER CONDITIONS.")

That was FORWARD.  Things were way better AFT.  Indeed, hanging out on the aft decks was permitted and awesome.  Here's that view of my feets on a lounge chair everyone posts.  (I'm still fully clothed, which explains the shoes, but still.  Lovely view.)

Dinner service was getting pretty speedy the past couple days, but was super slow tonight again.  (We spent three hours in there.  Prolly 90 minutes of that was waiting for the entrees after they'd cleared the soup/salad dishes.  We were having a good time and all, but also, you know, hungry.  We think the kitchen staff is overwhelmed.  It has been suggested that some of the crew have succombed to seasickness, which would explain it.  Also seems like maybe they're just understaffed.  It's hard to complain when you see the staff absolutely hustling their butts off and still not being able to get everyone served.)

Also, the dinner menu they posted in the daily app was in no way the dinner menu actually on the table.  Second day in a row that happened.  But the app has limits.  I think my "favorite" part is that the daily schedule always opens with a line about something cool to see in your port city that day, and a suggestion that you take a photo there and tag it on social media.  This is my favorite because we're not stopping in any ports.  So it just has fun facts about the Atlantic, then suggests that would be a great place for a selfie.

I think we've just been told to go jump in the ocean.