Seasick

Yesterday I had my first bout with seasickness of the whole voyage. We were experiencing some 12 foot swells, so it was not surprising that my stomach was affected. It was a bummer that it came on this day though, as last night (Monday June 21st) Wade and I attended the Captain’s Dinner. First, we met in the Glazer Lounge on the 7th deck for h’our deurves and then made our way to the main dining room where we sat at a table with the Hotel Director, a fantastic German man who now makes his home in Thailand, a couple of Lifelong Learners from Georgia (SAS hosts several senior passengers each voyage and dubs them LLs), a history professor and a surgeon from Oregon, and a teacher from New York who has spent the last several years in New Orleans with the Teach for America program (yes there’s a teachers-at-sea program we’d love to tell our teacher friends more about – just ask!). The company was delightful and the food amazing, but I was unable to eat as much as I’d have liked to do the rolling ship. Still, I’ll recount the menu for the foodies who follow the blog. First course: asparagus and mushroom risotto. Second course: cream of vegetable soup with crab. Third course: traditional Greek Salad. Fourth course: fillet of beef with peppercorn and béarnaise sauce, stuffed baked potato and zucchini. Fifth course: Strawberries in a crème sauce drizzled with powdered sugar and presented with a caramelized cherry in the middle. Emma was a bit insulted that she did not receive an invitation to the dinner, but our friend Valerie and her son Caleb had Emma over to their cabin to play until bedtime. Then she stayed on her own in our cabin for about an hour (she was FINE GranGran) listening to music on her Macbook (Thanks Grandma!). Wade and I ducked out a little early because it was her first time to stay alone. We arrived to discover she’d cleaned up the place for us – what a fantastic kid!