{"id":3030,"date":"2014-03-11T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2014-03-11T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:12:22","slug":"in-betweens-at-sea-03092014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"In Betweens \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [03\/09\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swe\"holdingmagicsm\"<\/a>ar we have more sea days on this cruise than ever before. Over 70 of them!\u00a0 Which is great for the passengers but can get slightly wearing for us\u2026sea day are a heckuva lot more work than ports! Especially since we\u2019re lucky enough to have such good ports on this run that the ship turns into a ghost town (I swear I had about a dozen patrons during our overnight in Singapore!)<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think I spend so much time around the ocean that it\u2019s a wonder I don\u2019t just sprout scales and be finished with it!<\/p>\n

At any rate; as of March 1st<\/sup> we are officially half way through the world cruise \u2013 and April is now barreling towards us full force. Five more days and we\u2019ll be halfway through March! No one is quite sure where the time has gone, especially since the beginning of this season was not the smoothest of voyages.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, things seem to have righted themselves and I\u2019ve taken a few big steps away from the edge of that big dark spiky pit I was teetering on the edge of (and who am I kidding, we were all<\/i> on the edge of it, not just me!) and while there are still \u2013 and always will be \u2013 some \u201cproblem children\u201d, some people who you just can\u2019t please, the overall atmosphere onboard really has drastically swung up since Manila.<\/p>\n

One more sea day and then we\u2019ll be in Thailand, where I will once again be attempting to complete \u201cShaughnessy\u2019s great and amazing Elephant Riding Adventure\u201d- which, as you may or may not recall \u2013 was shut down by the eeeeevil Phuket taxi mafia last season. There are a few of us signed up who were there last year, and I suspect I\u2019m not the only one who\u2019s a little nervous! I\u2019ll believe it\u2019s actually going through when I get out of the port<\/i>\u2026but none the less I have faith.<\/p>\n

I also have a near empty library, something that has become quite common for the early evening, and which is truly a relief since the day is usually so busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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