Another Sea Day Oosterdam

It's Friday and we continue our journey towards King's Wharf!! We've had several time changes and are now two hours ahead of EST. Yesterday we had a day of attending all the activities. I started with a 5K walk around the Promenade Deck. Then breakfast in the main dining room. At 11 AM we attended a cooking demonstration where they showed how the Canelletto specialty restaurant makes Spaghetti with Clams and Shrimp.

 It looked and smelled delicious. Lunch was in the Lido buffet. They had some tasty Nori Goreng and some Korean braised pork!!  

At 1 PM we played trivia. The theme was travel and we got nine out of a possible 19 points. At 2 PM we attended a talk with one of the 3rd officers who explained her duties. Most ships we've sailed on have watch duties of four hours on and four hours off. Here on the Oosterdam they have five hours on, then a break of two hours and then three hours of watch duty. Then they have other responsibilities such as training, security and provisioning support. She also had an interesting chart about the epaulets you see on officers shoulders

. If you ever see an officer with a "fisheye" then that person has a maritime license and can steer the ship. Other departments such as hotel and medical don't have that identification on their epaulets. 

At 4 PM we played a very humbling round of trivia. Some extremely tough questions and we struggled to get a single digit score. However we hopefully learned something. Or learned something we'll forget. 

Dinner was in the main dining room. They had a Beyond Meat coconut curry meatball main which was packed with flavor. No dessert. After dinner we headed to the Lido deck for the Lido Fair. We played most of the games and won some raffle tickets but we didn't win any prizes. However it was very fun!!

Today we started with breakfast in the main dining room followed by a walk on the Promenade Deck. Then some outside time on Deck 9 where we played Five Crowns. Lunch was in the dining room where we had tasty carnitas quesadillas and andouille burgers with blue cheese. We played 1 PM trivia where the theme was science. We had one of our better rounds with 11 out of 19. Now we're relaxing on our balcony. Very warm breeze and calm seas. The captain indicated that tomorrow we'll inevitably catch up with the storm he's been trying to avoid. With all of our course corrections, the ship had travelled an additional 300 nautical miles from its planned charted course. We still should arrive as scheduled into King's Wharf on Sunday morning. 

Dinner tonight will be in Canelletto which is the Italian specialty restaurant. Maybe we'll try that dish shown in yesterday's demo? After that we may see the production show called Disco Fever.