The sounding of the ship's foghorn woke one of us up in the wee hours of the morning. We are not strangers to that sound, having been brought up in San Francisco . The fog is a factor that we chose to mostly leave behind us, when we moved to the East Bay back in 1973. Only 35 miles east of SF, we have more pronounced seasons of the year. It can be hot in the 100's in summertime and drop to below freezing during the winter.
After breakfast in a very busy Pinnacle Grill, we paid a visit to the front desk to try and make heads or tails of our account. The front desk gal was quite helpful and printed out the account for us. Although not totally itemized, we found it jived with our invoice. In fact, in today's "The Daily", we have been asked to review our shipboard account now, so you would have time to make corrections. This leads us to think perhaps many other guests have had problems like us. Those guests that are on this five-day segment will only have a few days to fix stuff.
During the Captain's noontime talk, he mentioned that the seas were behaving much better, and we had a following wind from the north aiding in our transit. This evening, he said the ship's speed would be reduced to 9 knots, a requirement due to the whale migration activity. There have been some unfortunate accidents with collisions with the humpbacks in past years. We did keep a watch out for the telltale spouting , but we saw none.
The Zaandam will sail under the Golden Gate Bridge around 6:15am tomorrow morning. The bow will not be opened since it is still dark at that time. Some folks did go to deck six forward to possibly take some photos, but from we saw from our veranda and the TV screen, there was too much fog. We sure hope that fog lifts and we will have a nice day in the city, as well as a clear sail away at 5pm.
For us, it was a day of relaxing for a change. The sun did peek out long enough that we could sit on our veranda enjoying the warmth. Many ship activities kept the guests busy with a series of art classes in the Queen's Room. We believe that these types of activities have been added to the Legendary Cruises. The usual games and lectures continued as well as promotions in the Shops.
Everything was back to normal in regard to our dining room table at dinner time. The powers-to-be have continued to apologize for the mix-up. We chose this particular railing table because it is located on a turn, giving us more room in between the chairs surrounding us. Our meals were good, although one of us substituted the chicken noodle soup in place of the French onion soup. A chilled soup popped up on the menu for the first time. And finally, the chefs here have seen fit to add real noodles to the chicken soup, and not the spaghetti that refuses to stay on a spoon. We both enjoyed a spring roll, followed by meatballs and spaghetti and one chicken fajita with all the toppings. A new dessert popped up with a serving of rice pudding. Very good for a change.
Tomorrow, we look forward to a day walking the city around the waterfront. We know the area well.
Bill & Mary Ann
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