Cruise Ship Day 2, 3, and 4

Day 2 of the cruise was something that I am not normally accustomed to: relaxing and having someone waiting on me. It was an odd feeling. I didn’t really feel that comfortable, because I was in unfamiliar territory but I tried my hardest to relax. I sat on the deck of the ship, in the shade and just looked out at the surrounding water. It sure was a new experience. I had never been on a boat for more than an hour and now, it had been nearly a full day at sea. It wasn’t a bad feeling, just different.

Anyway, the first full day on the ship consisted to just laying around and doing what I could to stay hydrated and not hungry. They played island music the entire trip and it was kind of relaxing to hear the horribly covered Bob Marley songs. Since it was a big ship and cell phones didn’t work 100% of the time, I had to keep track of the family by keeping an eye out and constantly looking around. Often times, the wife and I could go a couple of hours of looking for but not finding anyone else in our family. With that in mind, you’ll understand when I say that that day, my wife continuously popped into and out of my life. Let’s just say that, with the exception of a little gambling in the Casino and dinner, not much happened on our first full day at sea.

But let’s focus on dinner. Tuesday was the Captain’s Dinner, which meant that you had to be wearing a suit and tie in order to attend. This night ticked me off more than any other night. Not because I had to dress up for the occasion, but because every three steps, a crew member from the ship stopped me and the wife and proceeded to take ten to eleven pictures of us in our “funeral wear”. It was annoying and my legs were throbbing after the 10+ miles that I walked in NYC and the cruise ship. By the time dinner rolled around, I was nearly too tired to EAT!!!

Me and the wife so wanted to create a baby that night, but I was way too tired and she had a headache. It wasn’t pretty.

The next day, though was our first stop on our six day cruise: Saint John, New Brunswick. Prior to the trip, my father-in-law and brother-in-law and I each signed up for a beer tasting tour so that we could get liquored up in Canada. It turned out though that instead of touring local pubs, we ended up taking a tour of Saint John that ended at a pub where we had one drink each. After that, the three of us ended up walking around Saint John and getting a good overview of the place. Just to give you an idea of how small the town was, Saint John reminded me more of Lynchburg, VA than Richmond, VA. It was small, but beautiful town.

That night was mostly the same activities, such as visiting the casino, and then dinner and then sleep. This turned out to be a good thing, because on the next day, the wife and I awoke to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax is perhaps one of the most beautiful places in the world that my eyes have seen. It was just a shame that I was too tired and too sick to enjoy it.

I love my in-laws. They are the nicest group of people I could have blessed to have as in-laws...but they don’t have a working comprehension of how to take vacations. This is vacation on my family: rest all day, party all night. This is vacation on her family: go here, do that, rest all night and do it all over again the next day. When they go to a new city, they see EVERYTHING they can see in one day. Good for them, bad for me, because (as it turned out on this trip) after two days of walking EVERYWHERE, I was too tired to enjoy myself the rest of the trip.

Me and the wife did disembark from the ship and visit the shops in the hanger, but that was as far as I went. With that said, while the wife and everyone else in my family toured Halifax, I returned to the ship and really relaxed for the first time all week. I ate some ice cream, stared at women in bikinis and then went back to my cabin for an all day Law and Order marathon. At around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, my eyes started to fade and I was just entering that half-way state of sleep and consciousness when...

Tomorrow I will continue and finish the saga of Vacation 1138: Too Tired Too Have Fun.