Frugalapolis

This was our first sea day and a chance to sleep in after our journey to Montreal and Quebec City. The temp was 11C (52F) with strong winds 29 mph and 5 ft waves, a mostly cloudy day. Today Hurricane Michael would make landfall in the Florida panhandle. We were lucky it was not headed to our home in Tampa Bay, but there were many people on the ship from Florida who were worried about it.

This cruise was not a typical combination of guests since it was a repositioning cruise. There were many older guests, lots of Canadians and Floridians since those were the starting and ending ports. There were only seven children on the ship. When they had the love and marriage show and were looking for contestants for newly weds the newest married were six years. It was a wonderful mix, and the experienced cruisers were much more tolerate, polite and friendly than a ship full of families and new cruisers would be.

Breakfast everyday was in the windjammer where I had salmon lox, and Scott had an omelet. I was able to eat fish everyday for breakfast and dinner, and resisted the bread the entire cruise. I only gained 4 lbs, which I have lost already.

First activity of the day was the cruise critic meet and greet where we met fellow members of the cruise critic forum and our facebook group, plus there were raffles of prizes, drinks and excursions from the ship staff. I won a nice back pack!

Enjoying the hot tub in the Solarium, surprisingly was not used much, it was cold so I think people were in their rooms reading.

The lonely lifeguard on the pool, most of the week no one was in the pools.

I started out with good cards in the poker run, but didn't end up with a winning hand.

Charlotte was in the facebook group, loved her card glasses. We sure enjoyed the Diamond Club free drinks, didn't spend any money on this cruise for drinks.

Hanging out for the Captains Welcome Aboard Reception, free champagne for all in the Royal Promenade. The Headliner showtime was the Las Vegas Tenors in the Lyric Theatre. They were a group of guys who sang cover songs. It was entertaining, but I guess not that great because I didn't even get a picture. We did stop in the casino to use our free spin to win coins - three each, and I won a Casino Royale tshirt. It was my lucky day.