Friday January 8, 2016 At Sea Between Belize City, Belize and Houston, Texas

This was a full day at sea returning to Houston.  We slept in and ordered coffee and a light breakfast in our cabin.  I spent quite a while finishing computer chores and then went to the library to finish them.  The internet connection is surer and faster there.  I still have trouble using Gerri’s new computer.  It does things like shrinking the font for no obvious reason.  I am sure I am touching something, but haven’t figured it out yet.

Gerri went to the pool are for about an hour before the humidity got to her.

Earlier in the cruise I had asked for a shout out to all geocachers and those interested in geocaching to meet.  The cruise director’s staff had arraigned for us to meet in the Wheelhouse at 3:30. These shout outs are usually on sea days.  The trouble with meeting today was that we had visited all the ports of call for the cruise and we were headed back to Houston.  Thus it was too late to plan anything about going caching with others aboard.  Since we are on this same ship next week I plan to ask for the shout out to be on the first sea day of that cruise.  Of course I have already logged a cache in the ports except Costa Maya where we will be next week.  There were 16 people at the meeting.  There were couples from Montana, Utah, Texas, Ohio and Australia.  The experience levels varied from interested to very experienced.  We exchanged a few travel bugs and had a lively discussion for about an hour before the meeting broke up.

We checked our cruise pictures and since there was no hors d’oeuvres party tonight we went to the cabin and enjoyed the sunset from our balcony.  This was one of those evenings that brought us to love cruising.

At 7:30 we went to the Captain’s Circle reception in the Fusion Lounge.  This event gives us a chance to meet the ship’s captain and bridge crew.  They also give a little spiel on future cruises and recognize the 3 most experience cruisers aboard.  We are far from such recognition.  The days at sea for those recognized was from 840 to 1030 days at sea.  We have about 170 days.

We went to the Island Dining Room and were seated with a very nice couple from the Dallas area.  We had a good meal and lingered over coffee and conversation until about 10 PM.  We returned to our cabin and read before calling it a night.