[05.01.2016 Tuesday]
The new year is already here again and I have not done any sports for weeks. Therefore, I get up today at 6 o’clock, put on my previously unused jogging clothes, take two towels with me to occupy loungers (otherwise there is no chance after 10 o’clock on a sea day to still get hold of which) and run for an hour on the upper deck. I am not alone, a handful of people run with me on the jogging parkour, it is already 27 degrees and we look at the sunrise while running.
The camera team, which travels on board in order to be able to offer an individual vacation film for the passengers at the end of each trip, is currently filming the sunrise.
After showering, I go with Harry on the outside deck for breakfast and sunbathe from 10 o’clock. The current board program offers again all kinds of activities, for everyone there is something whether volleyball, darts, table tennis, dance class, shuffleboard, or even from 10:30 the first cheap cocktails.
Today it is very windy and the sun disappears every now and then between the clouds, so we hold out three hours in the sun and read something. After noon we continue to use the sun loungers. To relieve our board balance we drink self-mixed long drinks from our drinking bottles, read and relax. From 15 o’clock there is once again a bar action “ice chocolate & milk shakes” and so we try the ice chocolate and the Oreo shake.
16 o’clock we are back in the cabin and dozing until 18:30, and again dinner is on the program. We let the evening end quietly, the next two days with excursions will be exhausting and we have to get up very early tomorrow.