Yesterday we left the Canary Islands and began our 11 days at sea. We have not had great luck with the weather so far on our trip. Mostly we’ve had overcast skies and jacket temperatures.

I’m not complaining, mind you. We are really enjoying the adventure, and much of our sailing time has been an adventure. The seas were not as rough as they were at the beginning of the trip, but 18 foot swells still make for difficult walking around the ship, bed boards up at night so that people are not flung from their beds, and a number of crashing dishes during meals. Several people have tipped over backwards in their chairs and one of those had to have stiches – ouch! My biggest tragedy was when my wine ended up in Lawrie’s lap last night at dinner…heavy sigh. It is a surprise that more people are not sea sick. Despite the crashing dishes, the dining room is full at every meal.

Most people are not getting a lot of sleep. Being rocked to sleep is one thing, being flung from bed board to bed board like a ping pong ball is not quite the same. None-the-less, we are at sea, one of our favorite places to be.

Charli