1st full sea day

I would prefer to have titled this one “A relaxing day at sea” but I’m still in a twit over our missing luggage. It’s quite inconvenient not having our “stuff.” And it didn’t help when I got an email advertisement from Luggage Forward (the company that lost our luggage) titled “Start 2026 Without the Baggage.” Oh, the irony! They managed to get 400 pieces of luggage from various cities, states and countries on to this ship, but only ours went MIA.

As an update, there has been a flow of communication between Luggage Forward, Oceania and us. The last message sounded at least somewhat hopeful. “In the most recent update that we have regarding your bags, it seems that the labels attached to the luggage has misrouted the luggages to the wrong agent who would be handling the luggages to be delivered onto the ship. Our Logistics team is currently in the works of getting the luggages back into transit and to deliver your bags onboard on January 11th to your ships next port of Bridgetown, Barbados.”

Mystery solved! It was the labels fault! The exact same labels that Luggage Forward sent with instructions to attach to our bags. Hmm…

I’ve always assumed the plural for luggage was luggage. But according to AI “in specific contexts, "luggages" might be used to describe different types or collections of luggage.…..to be more precise when referring to multiple items, use phrases like "pieces of luggage," "suitcases," or "bags". Ok, perhaps we do have luggages missing?

IF our bags do manage to arrive on January 11, that will be a one week delay. In the meantime, we can buy anything in the onboard clothing shop for a whopping 25% off. How nice. The shop carries mainly After Five and beachwear. No underwear or anything one might actually need. I know, I know, I’m sounding tacky.

In other news, I had not 1, but 2 desserts at lunch. I must settle down. We both had tea and scones (and sandwiches) in the Horizon Lounge mid afternoon.

 

our friendly servers

 

*We met a chatty couple at lunch who wanted to talk politics (not going there). We'd like to make friends, not enemies.

*We also had a nice visit with a lady we met on the 2023 World Cruise that has since lost her husband.

*Ronnie exercised twice today (the same number of desserts I had at lunch).

*We watched the sun set from the balcony of our cabin.

*We joined a Trivia team and won 2^nd Place. I contributed only 1 of 15 answers (what's the only vowel that’s not on the top row on the keyboard). Ronnie contributed several.

*We attended the onboard entertainment show (Evolution Motown) after dinner tonight. They were actually quite good and it was fun to see several hundred old people dancing to music from our era!

So that was Wednesday at sea. We have one more sea day before we reach our first destination.