Monday January 11, 2016 At Sea Between Houston, Texas and Costa Maya, Mexico

Monday January 11, 2016 At Sea Between Houston, Texas and Costa Maya, Mexico

We had only coffee and juice in our room. We plan to try the Mexican Buffet again.  As last week this was a day at sea. 

Our itinerary has changed: tomorrow is another sea day, we then visit Costa Maya, Belize and Cozumel with one more day at sea on the way back to Houston.

We went to the Mexican Buffet at about 1:30.  It was better than last week.  The tacos were straight out of the refrigerator but this time we expected that so it was no surprise.  After lunch we went to the Club Fusion.  We watched the last of Bingo.  We played the afternoon trivia game.  Well, played may be stretching it a bit, we only got 6 correct out of 20 questions.  At least we got to check our own answers and were spared the embarrassment of someone else knowing how poorly we did.

After dressing for formal night we went to the Skywalker for Hors D’oeuvres.  The feature was Steak Tartar. Since we had had a late lunch we didn’t partake.  We did chat with a couple from Enid, Oklahoma.  We talked until it was time for them to go meet their daughter and her friend for dinner.  They were celebrating their daughter and her friend’s graduation from college.

Our dinner seating had been changed from any time dining to the second seating in the main dining room.  We went to the Palm Dining Room and were seated at a table for 4.  The others at our table were a young couple from the Washington, DC area.  They lived in Maryland but the other side of the street was in DC.  It turned out that he is a policeman at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC.  This was their first cruise and the first time they had been on a vacation without their 5-year-old daughter.  We had dinner and dessert before Joe and Nicole had to leave, they were signing up to be contestants on the Match game that started at 9:45 and had to be there early.  After we finished our coffee we went and watched the match game.  Joe and Nicole had not won the drawing for contestants.  The game is patterned after the TV Newlywed game, but featured a newly, intermediate and longtime married couples.  A little racy at times but pretty funny.

After that we returned to our cabin.  Gerri read for a while and I tried my hand at some of the Sudoku games in my book.  Only the more difficult games were left.  Earlier I had completed a puzzle from the ship that was rated tricky.  I was deluded into thinking I had gotten better at the more difficult puzzles.  I had been delusional; they were still beyond my skill.