Thursday, October 17, 2013, At Sea between Barcelona, Spain and Madeira, Portugal

Today is a sea day.  We get to rest from shore excursions.  I slept in.  Gerri got up and did our wash.  We have many more cruise days before we reach Elite status and our loyalty rewards will include free laundry.  This cruise has many more Elite status passengers than usual.  Probably because this is the maiden trans Atlantic crossing of the newest and largest Princess ship.

Gerri went to get her nails done in the early afternoon.  I went on deck and had a slice of pizza and an ice cream cone from Swirls.  I also read a little.  At 3:30 we met back at the cabin and then went to the filming of the Wake Show in the Princess Live Theater.  There were about 30 of us at the filming.  It was a lot of fun with the Deputy Cruise Director Dan keeping things moving with jokes and give a ways.  We didn't win anything...sigh..

We went to the Princess lounge for hors d'ouvres.  Today was guacamole and chips plus the assortment of vegetables and cheeses.  The early seating dinner were already dressed for the formal night at sea, so we felt under dressed.

After getting dressed for dinner we had some photos taken at one of the positions set up around the ship.  We went to dinner at our regular time.  Our table was full and most of us had lobster as a main course.

After dinner we went back to our room.  Tonight we set our clocks back an hour.  Tomorrow is another sea day.  We should pass through the Straights of Gibraltar tonight at about midnight.  Too bad I would liked to have seen that during the day time.