{"id":16265,"date":"2026-08-27T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:27:49","slug":"carnival-conquest-2-day-6-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/27\/carnival-conquest-2-day-6-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Conquest 2 Day 6: At sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quiet day at sea. Except for the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we were diverted to save a person in a disabled sailboat far from land. How does a sailboat become disabled? I have no idea. But we did divert and did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/carnival-guests-watch-as-cruise-ship-rescues-man-stranded-at-sea\/216146\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/carnival-guests-watch-as-cruise-ship-rescues-man-stranded-at-sea\/216146\">rescue<\/a> him. It didn&#8217;t delay us at all, just added a bit of excitement to an otherwise dull day at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent much of the afternoon reading and watching movies on TV while watching the ocean go by. Unlike previous Carnival cruises, the movies on this one are actually quite good.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16266\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992892477398079;width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_20260826_214307.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>80s to the Max<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had dinner at a table with a couple from Nashville and a young lady from Geogia who was on her first cruise with her elderly aunt. Good dinner companions. No fistfights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We went to the show after dinner &#8211; <em>80s to the Max<\/em> (it was 80s night). A song-and-dance revue to 80s tunes. Not bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The casino continued to take my money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw Footloose on the big screen on the Lido deck at midnight. Hard to believe but I had never seen this movie before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiet day at sea. Except for the rescue. Yes, we were diverted to save a person in a disabled sailboat far from land. How does a sailboat become disabled? I have no idea. But we did divert and did rescue him. It didn&#8217;t delay us at all, just added a bit of excitement to an &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/27\/carnival-conquest-2-day-6-at-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[50,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4el","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265","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=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions\/16268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}