Awoke this morning to a quiet sea as we sailed towards Funchal in the Medeira Islands (Portuguese). And we are all alone as far as the eye can see. In past days there was always some bit of coastline on the horizon – primarily Spain, but also Morocco as we left Gibraltar.
Today is different. We're presently about 240 nm from Gibraltar and still 350 nm from Funchal in pretty deep water (about 14,000 feet) – enough to give us non-swimmers pause. Okay; we just don't think about it. Anything deeper than we are tall is all the same – too deep – which includes most swimming pools!
Leaving Barcelona we spent a day at sea, arriving in Gibraltar on Monday morning to a bit of overcast sky. It was windy, too, up on the rock so our excursion was canceled when the winds caused the gondolas to be shut down for safety. Although the tour was postponed until the afternoon, there was no guarantee that it would go forward at that point, so we bowed out and spent the day aboard ship. There was a brief downpour in the morning, but we were in our cabin at the time and didn't notice it until we went looking for lunch and thought they'd hosed off the decks.
Today will again be a quiet day as we work our way to the Medeira Islands for tomorrow's stop. Our excursion on Funchal has already been canceled due to the effects of Hurricane Earl. So we'll be having a long time aboard ship including the following sea days, until we reach St Maarten in the Caribbean.
Time to enjoy relaxing days, catching up on Disney movies (surprise), eating well, and enjoying the Disney stage shows in Walt's theater. Life is rough! It will be rougher if my Kindle runs out of new books to read. Hope to replenish its library tomorrow while in Funchal. Don't think there will be a connection out here on the open ocean with paying for it!
The only bad news today is that the tuxedo rental company had sent the wrong shirts to us: my shirts were not of the wing collar style; Michael's shirts were of the wing-collar style, but were the wrong size – unless his arms would suddenly shrink about 3 inches in length. A call to Guest Services who contacted Wardrobe and replacement shirts were found for delivery today. However Wardrobe called this morning to tell us that the shirts had regular collars, not wing collars, so we're back to wearing bowties with regular collars, which looks rather dorky. And all the cufflinks and matching studs (both from the rental company and those we brought from home) are useless. Guess we should have ponied up the money to pay for the extra baggage and brought our own formal wear along. Next time we'll know better!
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