{"id":338,"date":"2006-02-25T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/vacation-blog-day-3-a-walk-off-the-coast-of-cuba\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T05:15:32","slug":"vacation-blog-day-3-a-walk-off-the-coast-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/vacation-blog-day-3-a-walk-off-the-coast-of-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Blog Day 3: A walk off the coast of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 am was painful. I spent a good part of the day fighting off sleep. Jet lag sucks.<\/p>\n

It was rather windy out today. On deck the relative windspeed was over 45 mph. That made a nice walk an interesting exercise. They have this “Ship Shape” program where you earn a “Ship Shape Dollar” for every activity you participate in. At the end of the trip you can redeem your dollars for some schwag like a hat, t-shirt or bag. I suppose this is their response to anyone who’s got home after their cruise, weighed themselves and vowed never to go on a cruise again. In any case it’s not a bad thing and I’m sucker for collecting stuff, so I did the one-mile walk on the top deck for 1 SSD. (I think they should take back a dollar everytime you visit a late-night buffet though.)<\/p>\n

While I was up there I thought I would take out the GPS and see where we were. We were a few miles North of Cuba and you could see it in the distance. I recorded a track log of my 6 laps around the track to complete a mile. It looks suspiciously straight.<\/p>\n

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While the food is free most of the time, drinks are not. At lunch they have lemonade and iced tea, so I’ve made a point to stock up on that. I grabbed some and brought it back to my room in case I was parched again that night.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day was pretty relaxing. My Dad won $115 at a nickel slot machine. We played mini golf on the top deck. The wind was blowing so hard the ball would often roll on it’s own. I came in second to my Dad by one stroke after completely blowing it on the 3rd hole.<\/p>\n

I was glad I brought some FRS radios. We used them quite a bit to keep track of each other on the ship.<\/p>\n

We spent more time exploring all the decks. The lowest floor you can go to is two where they have the medical facility. I find myself wondering more and more about how this whole operation works. Where do all the staff eat? What are their quarters like? Apparently our dinner waitress has a room on deck zero. Considering the median age of the passengers here, there must be a morgue on the ship somewhere and I bet it gets used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8 am was painful. I spent a good part of the day fighting off sleep. Jet lag sucks. It was rather windy out today. On deck the relative windspeed was over 45 mph. That made a nice walk an interesting exercise. They have this “Ship Shape” program where you earn a “Ship Shape Dollar” for …<\/p>\n

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