Day 2 and Puerto Villarta
The second day at sea was quite the lazy day.
I did start the day with a stretching class, which was a nice way to get going. Then it was off to breakfast in the main dining room, where I enjoyed a Danish breakfast with bread, ham, cheese, and 2 sunny-side up eggs that ran over and soaked it all - that was very nice.
I spent the next part of the day running around seeking people to play boardgames with, holding my Settlers box up as I wandered through public areas, but no dice. Literally.
I ended up going to a cooking class, where the instructor didn’t really teach; he was an active chef, so more gave orders. When I looked over and saw two men trying to separate eggs, and realized they had not been given any more instruction than “separate those eggs,” I knew it wasn’t so much a class. As a group, we worked our way through ruining several dishes that we then cooked and ate. On the plus side, they had provided bottles of wine for us to enjoy, so the taste of the food wasn’t so much an issue when we came to the eating part.
A few hours passed, which meant it was time to eat again. After dinner was a magic show. The young magician had an entertaining stage presence, although his large illusions were standard, ending with the transformation illusion you’ve seen many times before.
Games of Tichu and hearts rounded out the evening with our traveling companions.
The next day, we woke up to Puerto Villarta. Here's the view from the ship where we docked:
It’s a built-up tourist city, and we took the taxis down to the main tourist shopping area (going through some areas that I would not want to walk through to get there). We wandered down the shopping area, and were very pleased by the art and sand sculptures on the beach. We caught the last part of the flyers show, but we are scheduled to see more of that tomorrow. We didn’t buy anything, and went back to the ship area. Ken went to the boat, and I went to Walmart with hopes of getting a local shirt. While they did have some, they were tool small for me - even the 3XL didn’t fit. (this is always a problem when I travel; the local XL concepts don’t match my shapely curves). There was also a shopping mall that I wandered through, but didn’t need anything from the Dockers store, GNC Health, or any of the other American chain stores.
Back to the boat for a lazy afternoon - I swam a bit, bubbled in the hot tubs, enjoyed the steam room, napped on a ceramic heated bed, then came back to the room and napped some more.
And soon, it’s dinner time!
I did start the day with a stretching class, which was a nice way to get going. Then it was off to breakfast in the main dining room, where I enjoyed a Danish breakfast with bread, ham, cheese, and 2 sunny-side up eggs that ran over and soaked it all - that was very nice.
I spent the next part of the day running around seeking people to play boardgames with, holding my Settlers box up as I wandered through public areas, but no dice. Literally.
I ended up going to a cooking class, where the instructor didn’t really teach; he was an active chef, so more gave orders. When I looked over and saw two men trying to separate eggs, and realized they had not been given any more instruction than “separate those eggs,” I knew it wasn’t so much a class. As a group, we worked our way through ruining several dishes that we then cooked and ate. On the plus side, they had provided bottles of wine for us to enjoy, so the taste of the food wasn’t so much an issue when we came to the eating part.
A few hours passed, which meant it was time to eat again. After dinner was a magic show. The young magician had an entertaining stage presence, although his large illusions were standard, ending with the transformation illusion you’ve seen many times before.
Games of Tichu and hearts rounded out the evening with our traveling companions.
The next day, we woke up to Puerto Villarta. Here's the view from the ship where we docked:
It’s a built-up tourist city, and we took the taxis down to the main tourist shopping area (going through some areas that I would not want to walk through to get there). We wandered down the shopping area, and were very pleased by the art and sand sculptures on the beach. We caught the last part of the flyers show, but we are scheduled to see more of that tomorrow. We didn’t buy anything, and went back to the ship area. Ken went to the boat, and I went to Walmart with hopes of getting a local shirt. While they did have some, they were tool small for me - even the 3XL didn’t fit. (this is always a problem when I travel; the local XL concepts don’t match my shapely curves). There was also a shopping mall that I wandered through, but didn’t need anything from the Dockers store, GNC Health, or any of the other American chain stores.
Back to the boat for a lazy afternoon - I swam a bit, bubbled in the hot tubs, enjoyed the steam room, napped on a ceramic heated bed, then came back to the room and napped some more.
And soon, it’s dinner time!