Day 2 - Sailing

We woke up in the morning and headed downstairs for breakfast. There were two options for places to eat for breakfast – one was a buffet type set up that offered the typical breakfast fare, and the other was in the fancy dining room. I had almond-crusted French toast. It was amazing. At this point I was beginning to understand what five star dining truly entailed.

The second day of the cruise (Monday) was spent cruising. We weren’t set to arrive in Barbados until Tuesday. This meant that we had to spend the day hanging out on the boat.


One of the things that I wanted to do on this trip was to get a tan; so, I figured that this was the best day to start on that. I went up to the sun deck and listened to some music and read while I was catching some rays. It was going great until I fell asleep. I fell asleep for an hour and a half with my shirt off in the afternoon Caribbean Sun. I got a very bad sunburn. I think I went through a whole can of Solarcaine that week.

We spent the rest of the day looking around the boat. I went to my parent state room later in the afternoon. They had a balcony room. My dad started explaining to me that they were seeing fish that were jumping out of the water and flying. I got my camera and went out to take some pictures. It was quite fascinating. These fish would jump out of the water and flap their fins. The flapping didn’t give them the elevation they needed for free flying, but it did allow them to glide five to ten feet above the water for ten seconds or so. After that they would reenter the water. They were amazing animals.

We also had another great dinner that night. We went to bed early because we had to be ready for an excursion when we docked in Barbados the next morning.

“It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.”
-Stirling Moss

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