Yesterday I forgot to mention that we had a change of Captains. Captain Ryan Whitaker is now in charge and he has a great Captain's voice for being a very young Captain in his second year in that role. The rest of the senior offers seem to be the same.
Today was a leisurely partial day spent in town as we had to be back on board by 2pm. We first walked to our hotel, the Sarah Nui, which is near the port and reconfirmed that we could leave our luggage there on the morning of our arrival on 10/28 until check in time at 1pm. From there we found an optician that could fix Angela's glasses (he wouldn't take any money). The bulk of the rest of our time was spent in the local market, and I also found a non-cotton T-shirt outside the market. We were going to walk down to the local Carrefour supermarket, but in the end we didn't as it was pretty warm. We did walk over to the ferry terminal and checked it out. It was sure nice to see the city hustling and bustling after the quiet Sunday the day before.
We all had to participate in the he Mandatory Passenger Muster drill at 2pm. During that drill there was a medical alert that occurred but we didn't learn what it was about. The ship let its lines go around 3:30pm, backed out of the berth, and rotated clockwise before heading out to sea. I watched all of this from deck 13 before moving to deck 10 to try to find a fellow passenger. I wasn't successful.
We ate dinner in the Lido and Angela went to the BBC movie which I had already seen. I stayed and talked with another passenger, and completely forgot about the 3, 4, & 5 star Mariner reception. The evening program introduced the new EXC speakers, and it remains to be seen if this voyage has a similar vibe to the last one. I am guessing that it won't. But we'll see. Tomorrow is a sea day which will be good, but much of the programming is a repeat of what we've already seen. Oh, and I did find the person I was looking for after the EXC presentation.
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