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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (88534)	11/16/2004 3:21:33 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I got seasick for part of the first day at sea, but not very, just slightly queasy. It was fine after that. We had great weather, and calm seas. I took a dramamine, aka meclazine, when I felt just the suggestion of queasiness and it went away, but unfortunately I kept falling asleep all the first day, waking only to chow down (really, the food situation was insane, it's a miracle that I only gained 3 pounds during that 9 days. (They bill a 7 night trip as a 9 day one; really it's a eight day one, because 2 of the days are partial days.) We were lucky. I would really hate to be on a ship during rough seas, and am very susceptible to that kind of imbalance-sickness. We once took a small plane flight over Victoria Falls and I"m sure it was a fabulous experience, but since I was engaged with one of those paper bags, I couldn't swear to it. It was a nightmare, for me. We know a lot of people who've never been on a cruise who want to go on a reading cruise with us now. But if other people came, it seems to me it wouldn't be a reading cruise. This cruise departed from NY, and was a great bargain, but although there are unbelievable bargains departing from various ports in FL, there aren't so many sailing from NY, I've noticed now that I've gotten on cruise mailing lists. I don't want to fly someplace before I sail someplace. I want to drive to the city, park at the pier, and get on the ship. You are assigned the same table in the main dining room (the 'formal' one with the really good chef and service) for all meals, so you do get on chatting terms with your waiter and assistant waiter; you're assigned to sit with other people (even if you've asked ahead to be seated alone), but the first thing I did on boarding was go to the maitre d' and get us switched to a table alone. If one felt sociable, one could sit with others, though. The few times we did, it was fun. Jollity prevails. Don't get friendly enough with your waiters (whom you do see a lot) to learn about their personal lives and work schedules, is my advice. The ship docked at Hamilton and St. George. We got off, and looked around, and took a hike to an interesting fort, but we'd decided ahead of time not to lose a day of reading so we only stayed out for three or four hours in each place. We have friends who go to Bermuda a lot, and they think that was crazy because you can read at home so easily. Well, maybe they can. But they don't have TiVo, do they? No.