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It's Sunday morning, it must be another sea day. Today was supposed to be a Cabo San Lucas port day. We were originally just going to go and wander and explore, so nothing too disappointing for us to miss since we had no solid plans anyway. We would later learn that Hurricane Odile has now strengthened to a category 4 hurricane, with wind speeds from 125 - 135 miles per hour. It has also shifted it's track. It was supposed to move west of Cabo San Lucas, but instead it's following the coast up and looks like it could be a close shave for Cabo. They are talking about 45 - 50 foot wave swells and flooding for the area, on top of the wind. I'm glad we're not there. Puerto Vallarta is getting some large swells as well.
Stacey wakes me up at 5:20 am again and we go down to deck 4 to do some laps around the track. There's more people out there than the morning before, mostly walkers but a few joggers as well. I'd see even more out there about an hour to an hour and a half later jogging. Everyone's trying to work off some desserts.
The ship is rocking up and down like a teeter totter and it's noticeable as you go around either end of the ship. My calves and knees are feeling the exercise from yesterdays jog and are not cooperating with my brain as well as yesterday either. Stacey gets into power walking mode and though I do my best to keep up for a lap, my legs are tightening up from the knees down and giving me grief. I jog a little to keep up. It seems that jogging doesn't hurt as bad as walking, but as soon as I stop they start to seize up again. Stacey catches up and passes a couple of slower walkers as we get to a narrow spot on the track around the end of the ship and I get stuck behind them as she rounds the corner. By the time we get around to a stretch where I can pass them, Stacey is nearly a full length down the ship away. How'd she do that??? I jog to catch up and find out later that she had jogged a little too. I stop at 3 laps and go up to the top deck for water and the hope of a breeze to cool off and Stacey joins me a lap later. The ship's rocking is tiring.
After a quick shower and breakfast we go and catch the morning cruise director show. Very entertaining again. I head over to watch the seminar on the Panama Canal by Captain Puckett, a former Panama Canal Pilot, who has transitted the canal 1479 times. This will be his 1480th crossing. Very interesting guy. Stacey waits in a line for a commemorative pin of our ships crossing the canal. The ship is starting to rock a little harder now. We had been told at the morning show that today would be the closest to the hurricane that we would be on this journey. We were going to go and catch a demonstration on cooking salmon, but Stacey is feeling nausated so we go back to the cabin for a nap.
Due to having extra sea days they are showing classic movies in the movie theatre everyday at 2:15 pm. We missed Casablanca yesterday, but after resting for a little we go and catch Singing in the Rain. How many can say that they saw that movie in the theatre? After the movie we just hang out until the Rich Purpura magic show in the main show theatre. Funny act with the kids and audience involvement. We go after that and get ready for dinner at Animator's Palate. The ship is really starting to move now. We are starting to cross the tail of hurricane Odile and though we are well out the path of the storms forward fury, the ocean and wind is still churning behind it. The water doesn't look that bad, though you can only see so far into the darkness. The up and down motion has been joined by some side to side as well.
Everyone at our table showed up for dinner today, including newlyweds David and his wife Ryan. She is looking much better today. Surprising given the current motion of the ocean. Stacey and I aren't feeling too badly either, but it definitely is difficult to walk and impossible in a straight line. The full table doesn't last long though. Mallory, the cast member from the Disney Dream ship, leaves to go back to her room. She had been playing a game on her phone for a while before dinner and the motion of the ship had done the rest. Kind of like reading a book in the back of a car on a winding road and then trying to eat after. She wasn't up to it.
Dinner was very good again. I went for black truffle pasta, butternut squash soup and a grilled red snapper dish. Mmmmm. Stacey had salad, with roasted zucchini and peppers, a jumbo shimp salad and a grilled salmon dish that she loves. Her dessert was a fruit plate that Ismet added two bowls of berries to make a mickey head out of. Cute. Ismet really pushes the food, bringing out plates of food from the menu for the table to try that no one ordered. I had a mango mousse for dessert and he brought me an extra sundae as well. I didn't touch it though, I was already very full and didn't want to overdue it with the extra ship movement.
We left dinner and staggered immediately from the very back of the ship on deck 4's Animator's Palate to the front of deck 4's Walk Disney Theatre to watch Heath Hyche do a comedy variety show. He didn't get as many laughs as I'm sure he'd like, but I think most people in the theatre were focusing more on the ships bobbing around. There is a Rocking Rowdy line dance party after the show at 11 pm but we head carefully back to the cabin. Try to do a line dance in this weather? Won't be a straight line. Just have to stand there and the ship will do the dancing for you.
By the time we get back to the cabin the rocking is making you just want to flop on the bed and close your eyes, so we do, after taking some gravol, and moving the clocks one hour forward. We'll be changing time zones during the wee hours.
Goodnight all.
WYWH (with calmer waters)
Kim =) and Stacey :)
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Marlen Hey what a contrast of life here..Packing, purging, selling stuff, furniture...wow! Never buy a house and sell your own inside of 4 days.. Hectic.. Notaries, banks, reak estates on both ends, endless phone calls on our stuff for sale, and texting...But we are selling what we want and all "subject to" are off.. Now we are trying to speed things up. Our possession date in Saanich too late. Oct 31 Cant stand sitting around here in empty rooms, bare walls, and stacked boxes Gonna lose it! So we are going for new owner taking our house and paying us Oct 6th. Then give 4 days to transfer money by notary or layer to us. Then we asked Saanich owners to speed up too. They said no prob. So we can take over that place Oct 10. YaH! Now to book the movering truck to come get out stuff by Oct 2, final cleanup here, and we are on the road to PG Will spend time there with T and C and kiddies a couple of days. Then hit the road to island. Will stay at the Surf to wathch the water view, right near ship terminal where you guys were!!! beautiful spot with kitchenette. Then we will move in to our new place Oct 10. Unpack.....ugh. Don has to fly to PG for work meeting Oct 20, 10 days later, but I should be mostly settled by then. WIWT instead of here. Im wiped and my brain wont shut down at night. Up at 3 am sometimes. Somebody hit me with a large rubber mallet!!!