December 05, 2008 – At Sea

The clocks had been turned back 1 hour before going to sleep last night. It was cloudy & windy with mild swells in the ocean and we quit our walk after only 40 minutes. Shortly before lunch time Captain John made an announcement that there was a “lazy whale” on the port side. The whale was head down in the water and his tail was sticking up out of the water, but it wasn’t moving. It stayed there for about 15 minutes as we sailed by. A bit later as we were eating lunch in the Compass Rose we saw several whales jumping out of the water off the starboard side, but they were too far away to get good photo shots. After lunch we had a couple of rounds of Pooch with 2 new people joining us. The overcast windy skies continued throughout the day and rain came in during trivia (which we won again.) During trivia we saw another whale with its tail sticking out of the water. The evening’s dress code was formal and we were invited to Cruise Director Paul Reynolds’ table for dinner with Mark, the Guest Relations Mgr and 2 other couples who are friends of ours. The show was singer Elaine Delmar who has been on Regent several times before. And then we went to bed.