What do you do on a sea day that follows visits to six new countries over a span of nine days? Nothing. You do nothing at all. To be fair, too, the Freestyle Guide didn’t have a ton of activities for us to choose from anyways – a seminar with the captain, a trivia session, Read more
We have sea day routines down pat when we’re sailing through warm waters. Most of our days look the same, and we’re okay with that. But even though our Norwegian Getaway was leaving a warm port was sailing towards another warm port, the waters in between were downright frigid, vacillating between the upper 40s and Read more
It started slow and then ended all at once. I feel like I say that a lot, but I feel like it’s true of every cruise we’ve been on: the anticipation, the first few days, it feels like suspended animation. Everything moves so slowly, so deliberately. And then, the wind picks up and moves everything Read more
On our last cruise, when we were onboard the Vista, we couldn’t get enough sleep. We were up early in the morning almost every day and we lamented about the early wakeups. But on this Sunshine cruise, we were getting too much sleep. So much so that we were waking up ahead of our alarms, Read more
There’s a comfort in the formulaic way we approach sea days. We wake up, we grab breakfast, we find loungers and we sit out for hours, soaking in the sun as much as each other’s company, but often in silence. We have lunch, we take a nap, we play a round of trivia, we drink Read more
