{"id":14644,"date":"2025-04-22T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:20:35","slug":"ncl2-day-17-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/ncl2-day-17-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL2 Day 17: At sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had breakfast at a table we shared with Dorothy, Bonnie and Jill, three widowed woman who cruised together once or twice a year. Then we joined the cha-cha class and did poorly. Guess we will have to continue faking it on the dance floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spent time in the casino – which continued to take our money – then played some knock gin rummy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After dinner we attended a show by an acrobatic couple from the Ukraine. Very impressive. Nicely choreographed and very sensual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acrobats on stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taking a bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We then went up to the Spinnaker Lounge and danced. We sat with Dean and Leona, the couple from Dubai that we had met on the excursion in Costa Rica (and with whom I had gotten stinking drunk). We were joined by Leslie, a lovely transvestite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me, Leslie, Leona and Dean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dancers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yes, that is me, “going down”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marlene took a few photos for posterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two best-dressed passengers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene at dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene at dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had breakfast at a table we shared with Dorothy, Bonnie and Jill, three widowed woman who cruised together once or twice a year. Then we joined the cha-cha class and did poorly. Guess we will have to continue faking it on the dance floor. We spent time in the casino – which continued to … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,122,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise","category-ncl2","category-pacific-ocean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14654,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions\/14654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}