Sunday, January 6,2002
The best kind of day…

Erin and I have spent a fantastic day thus far, without actually doing anything. We slept relatively late, due to the fact that we went to a late movie last night (A Knight’s Tale) then we went to the gym for a half hour treadmill session. They’ve got nice machines there. Anyway, after showering, we watched Junkyard Wars (which I’d never seen before, and kind of wanted to see) then went for a soak in one of the nearby hot tubs. There is a pool complex of sorts with two hot tubs and a small pool fairly close to here (practically right above our cabin, but not quite) after a brief soak, we came back to the cabin and had a nap for a bit - it was getting quite hot out.

Something I forgot to mention about the flight from Toronto. Just as we were flying over Miami, the pilot broke the bad news about the Canada Russia game at the world juniors. After he was done his announcement, a stewardess “translated” the announcement into French. She had “us” losing to the United States, which I found quite amusing for two reasons - 1) we weren’t playing the US. and 2) we were flying into Miami, so it’s not a given that the majority of the passengers were Canadian. I found it funny anyways. I’m glad I took French through high school. I can’t speak it very well (read at all) but when I hear it spoken, I can generally understand what’s being said.

Anyway, that’s enough of a side-track. Back to our day. After the nap, we went to the buffet place and got some pineapple and watermelon to eat, not a whole lot, just enough to tide us over until a (planned) late supper. Tonight is Formal night onboard, so we (Erin) ironed the wrinkles out of the stuff we’re going to wear tonight. We went for a bit of a tour of the ship after that, going to a couple of places that we hadn’t been yet, specifically the business center (where Internet access is available, but really only Email and Web) and some kind of children’s center where people dump their kids for the day. Then we came back here to grab our books, and sat on the deck (well, not literally, we were sitting on deck chairs) for a while to read. Erin’s getting showered up for tonight, while I write this, then I suspect we’ll go out and watch the sun set over Cuba (which we’re travelling by right now) I’m hoping I can get a good picture or two at any rate.