April 21 - At Sea

 We had another hour lost last night.  This morning we didn't wake until 8:40.  Sunrise here is 6:49 am and sunset is 9:41 pm.  On sea day Sundays Regent often has a big brunch buffet from 10 - 1.  We headed there right at 10 and made that our morning/afternoon meal.

Here's Michael sampling my delicious pasta from last night.

There are always beautiful ice sculptures at the brunch buffet.

I only got pictures of a couple of the tables, but it is a fabulous spread.

I missed the morning lecture, but attended the second titled "Alaska: The Last Frontier" by Terry Breen.  She is really amazing in that she is organized enough to speak for 45 minutes with slides, but no notes.  It was a general overview of Alaska and very interesting.  She's probably my favorite speaker of the three which is no surprise since she's been speaking with Regent for 30 years.

Then it was "rest" time.  I don't think I actually slept, but got enough rest to be a bit refreshed to our weekly sibling Zoom call.  Since Jan is still not 100%, they called in from their suite, and we did from ours.  Unfortunately, it was a pretty poor connection so we sort of ended up just listening and not even trying to contribute.  But it is still great to see everyone once a week and catch up on the family news.  Since we've been on this cruise there has been one more grandchild born and we learned that the first great-grandchild (a boy) will be coming in October.  

After Zoom, I went to the 3rd lecture of the day: "Legends of Alaska's Gold Rush" by Jeana Rogers.  We learned about some of the notorious characters who profited from the time, and not necessarily from finding gold, but some were con artists and madams.

At Trivia the 5 of us got 11/15 which was not enough for points.  We play in the Observation Lounge and here are 3 of the bar menus.  I've had the Splendor the last 2 days since it is medicinal with honey, lemon and ginger.  I figure it might help ward off the cold going around.

We noticed when we arrived for Trivia that, for some unknown reason, we had come to a complete stop, but then started up again before the end of the game.  Must have been a stoplight. 😀

We had dinner at Prime 7 with Phi/Carol.  I had the seafood sampler again, but this time I asked if it was possible to have the crab taken out of the leg as I'd had a hard time with it the last time we were there. No problem, Madame.  And they took the lobster out of the shell also.  Nice.

We can now see one of the Aleutian islands off our starboard side.  We have been sailing on the north side of the islands, but tonight we will cut through to end up on the south side so we can get to Kodiak and the other ports.  Another hour forward again!