A quiet, uneventful day at sea.

My quick morning swimming drills in the SkyDome pool. Breakfast with the boys. Kids’ Club for the boys and it took me a good 30 minutes to get a real coffee. I started a work call, then pick up from Kids’ Club. A couple more work calls.

Then late lunch @ The Glass House, a not included “charges apply” tapas restaurant by Jose Pizarro.

“Captain America” at Ocean Studios. Then the boys stayed in to play Switch / the iPad, while I went to the gym. I did an “Easy Run” which took way longer than expected because I decided to use the treadmill distance / pace, which I think is actually wrong – the treadmill said I did 6K while my watch said 7.5K. I thought I might strength train after the run, but I am still aching from yesterday’s strength training, so I ended my session there. I’m shocked that just a week’s break from training has reduced my capacity so much.

Dinner, then “Sky’s the Limit” at Headliner’s Theatre, which was marketed as a virtual reality show, so that’s what I told the boys. Instead, it was yet another musical, by the same cast. As far as I’m concerned, this was by far the worst of the three musicals I had watched on the cruise – no plot (just vignettes of three cities: NYC, Beijing, and London), underwhelming songs – but F said it was his favourite because the understood the plot, and he liked the Chinese bit with lion dance and kung fu. The was so bad, I was actually tempted to leave. I consoled myself by looking at the bright side – that I’ve been so privileged to have only watched great musicals before this trip. Prior to this, I had only known shades of “good”, I didn’t realise how bad musicals can be. But now I do. (Although I quite enjoyed the themes and some of the songs from “Festival” and “Greatest Days: The Official Take That Musical”)

And then we watched more Cobra Kai again at night, in between packing up to disembark. We had finished up Season 5 last night, and I was thinking we could start Season 6 in Malaysia, but the boys were adamant on starting Season 6 straightaway.