Antigua? Nope!

We were suppose to dock early; however instead we have Captain Nash in our cabin.  Well not exactly in our cabin but in our cabin through the Public Address Speaker.  You know something is up when that happens.

The winds that are affecting the entire Caribbean and many cruise ships is preventing us from entering the channel.  It is just too dangerous to enter the channel and dock. 

It is a narrow channel and we appreciate that the Captain is keeping us safe. In all the times we have sailed into Antigua we have never missed it due to weather!  This season weather is affecting a lot of locations.  Not only the Caribbean but the Pacific too.  Eastern and Western and now even Southern Caribbean is dealing with weather.  

So it is a SURPRISE Sea Day.  You know that the crew all received calls very early and told to hit the ground running to prepare for this day.

If you are registered on the Princess @ Sea app on your phone or tablet the updated Patter is very quick.  Many events have been added, including movies, seminars and games.  The Dining room will now be open for lunch too.  The updated paper Patter takes a few hours to get printed and distributed.

Our original plans today was to spend it in the Sanctuary. We head upstairs and even before I can lay down on the lounge chair the skies opens up.  I take cover and after about a half hour we agree to head back to the cabin and we cancel our day up here.  With the rain and the wind all morning we made the right decision.  Note the afternoon did bring bright, hot skies and the Sanctuary would have been nice but by this time we had different plans.

here is a pic of Ricardo in the Crown Grill 

For lunch we agree to head to Alfredos where Ricardo serves us.  Boy is he good!  So professional, attentive and kind.  He remembers us from the Star Princess many years ago. He has been on the Royal for a few contracts now and works every evening in the Crown Grill.

love the Sangria at Alfredos

I get some Sangria and the Calzone minus the ham.  Today’s Calzone had way too much Ricotta for my liking.  I ended up scooping a bunch of it out and eating it with less cheese.

The entire day was very relaxing (just what we needed).  We read, did puzzles, chatted with friends, participated in some trivia, watched the Scategories game.  Which was hosted by Matt who had me laughing most of the game.  

By late afternoon I was back in the cabin watching a movie called Table 19 – cute and glad I could watch it here for free.  Bernie watched the new Blade Runner and said the same thing as I did "glad I could watch it for free".

We meet up with friends in Club 6 for drinks and some good laughs.  Always nice to start the evening like this.

At 7;15 Bernie and I head to Princess Live to take part in the “Before they were Stars” trivia.  We only got 12 out of 25.  Not good, but it was fun and again Matt the Cruise Director makes us laugh.

Again dinner is up at the Horizon Court and it is German Night.  Ari the Buffet Steward sees us and directs us to his station and he has two soda waters waiting for us.  What a great guy. He takes care of us in the Sanctuary and then again at night.   We later sit with Michael, Sandro, Mom and Jennifer to catch up with them.

Colours of the World is being performed tonight at 8:15 and 10:15 but we are not planning on going to see it (it is very good though).  We instead head to Majority Rules where Ryan and Matt host over 50 teams in this game.  We have a good time by handing in obscure answers and laughing with the responses.

After the game we head to Vines for a glass of wine where we run into Lew and Nan and we all sit and chat.

Again I have to say this is what cruising really is about. Meeting people and getting to know them better.  We have sailed with Lew and Nan numerous times before but this trip and it is nice to get to know them both much better.  

In the cabin we watch the Wake Show then turn on the Sleep Soundtrack and crash.  I did try to see if the shops sold the sleep cd but they do not.  I will look at home for the sleep app that they recommend.

Tomorrow is St. Lucia which the Captain says we should be able to get in to.