On The High Seas

The last two days we have been cruising through the Atlantic Ocean to enter the mouth of the Amazon river. January 18th saw us in high seas with wind gusts up to 60 mph. Needless to say most of the ship was sick and the entire day felt like a disneyland ride, like the whirlybird. Today is much calmer, but I must say that you can definately feel all the chop and swells of the ocean. While in transit we are getting on a pretty regular schedule. I try to workout in the morning with the elliptical and other routines. I have hereby suspended all running while on the ship. I have learned that to run on a treadmill while being tossed around by the ocean is not possible. The only way it can be done is by holding on with both hands, but this hardly feels like running. I was able to get in a 5 mile run in Dominica. This was interesting for a few reasons, first the cars drive on opposite sides of the road, and secondly the roads are very narrow. It rained during the run, but at 80 degrees it felt great. Back to our regular shipboard routine- I go to work at 7:30 and meet Jennifer and the kids for breakfast around 8:15. Jen teaches the kids and I work in the AV booth until 11:15. At this time I go help out with the kids school and Jen takes a break to work out and have lunch. I take the kids to lunch and hang out with them until 1pm. At this time the kids go back to their schooling with Jen while I go back to work. We all meet up in our room at around 4:30pm and relax before dinner. After dinner I have a lot of work to do as we do the production of speakers, DVD's, etc. These presentations keep me busy off and on from 7pm until 9pm. I have work study students getting trained however, so I won't have to be at all of these events in the near future. We are finding ourselves real busy on the ship, and this us look forward to getting to ports. I have a new appreciation for the size of the Atlantic Ocean and its power in general, and we still have to cross it later this month. That will end this post. Take Care,