Sunday, February 8, 2009~~~Somewhere on the way from Panama to Aruba OK, OK, enough is enough! We are having very rough seas (from the TV display) with 54 knot winds hitting the ship head on (the equivalent of 60 mph). This has been going on since about 10 pm last night. The movement on the ship is so bad with heaving and shuddering and yawing and the occasional pot hole that I got very little sleep last night. Although the winds are not as high, I think the movement is greater than when we went through Drake's Passage. Per the Captain at 9 am, we can expect this to last until the evening. As I said before, I think weather has become Captain Giske's personal albatross!

Last night we had a fantastic dinner in Silk Road, as usual! Mark Merchant, the ventriloquist joined us for dinner and the three of us managed to finish off a prodigious amount of sushi and sashimi! Hyperion Knight, a pianist, was the entertainment, but we skipped it in favor of a quick opportunity to visit my money in the casino.

Today is the Asian Buffet and the day before yesterday was the Nuevo Latino Buffet, we've stopped going, just too much food! It also seems like everything is so compressed in these 11 day cruises.
Tonight we have dinner in Prego with Cornel and tomorrow is Aruba.

If I could stay on longer, I definitely would, so I'm not eager to leave the ship. But I miss Samantha and the boys: Lennox, Alex and Julien and my mom. So I am beginning to think about packing and winding down our wonderful, wonderful journey.
love,
Rock and Roll Girl