Tuesday October 22, 2013, At Sea between Madeira, Portugal and Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Our third full day at sea.  When we left Madeira we expected rougher seas than we have experienced.  The Captain announced this morning that we were steering around a yet to be named tropical depression.  We may expect some rain showers tomorrow morning.

We started our day as usual with coffee in our stateroom.  We only had the coffee this morning because we planned to have lunch.  We attended the taping of tomorrow's Wake Show.  One of the guests was the executive chef for Princess cruises.  He has worked for Princess for 40 years.  He is from Italy and the restaurant we have enjoyed so much, Alfredo's, is named after him.

Lunch was fish and chips at the Wheelhouse.  Well mine was fish and chips, Gerri had fried prawns and chips.  After that we went back to our room and Gerri caught some rays on the balcony while I took a nap.

The plan for tonight was hors d'ouvres, sushi, at Club Six followed by dinner.  We met Lou and Mona at Club Six.  Before dinner we checked out the latest photographs and had some more taken at another scene.

Dinner was with our regular group,  Gerri had turkey breast and I had surf and turf.

After dinner we went to see an impressionist, Joey Van, in the Princess Theater.  Followed by another show by the Mentalist, Brent Webb, in the Vista Lounge.  These activities involved a lot of walking.  Our dining room is on deck six at the rear of the ship, the Princess theater is on deck 6 at the front and then it was back to the Vista Lounge on deck 7 at the rear of the ship.  Only a little more walking to our room amid ship and on deck 9 to call it a night.

Of course tomorrow is another sea day.  According to the Captains announcement we will reach the halfway point in our crossing at about 3 AM.  Before going to bed we noticed that the sea was a little rougher, but not bad. We also turned our clocks back another hour.