Let me begin today where I left off yesterday afternoon. We were about to go for our life boat drill. Well, this one was not very painful. On all previous Regent cruises this drill has taken 40 minutes but today it only took 20 minutes. We had plenty of time to return to our suite and dress for dinner. We enjoyed happy hour in our suite while dressing.
At 6:30 we met Allison & Joe Trum in Prime 7 for dinner. Last time we cruised with them was in 2013 on our Beijing to London cruise so we had a lot to catch up on. You will see some photos taken at Prime 7 in today's link.
Room service delivered breakfast and showed up right on the requested time at 7:30 this morning. Rebecca did her treadmill workout while I showered and went out to take some photos. I have been having a problem with my foot so did not do my usual hour workout on the treadmill. Maybe tomorrow! As you will see, the spa area is huge compared to Regent's 3 other ships.
I am also blown away with how luxurious Explorer is. I'm normally not impressed with artwork but Regent spend a lot of money for the art. Chandeliers are also impressive. There's really not much we do not like!
Agustin is our suite steward from the Philippines. He came in to clean our suite so we took off for lunch up in La Veranda. I sent some things to laundry last night and Agustin returned them at noon. That was fast service!! We get free laundry service as Titanium members. This afternoon I went to a 2:00 lecture in the theatre by Dr William Fowler. Between 1814 and 1914 more than 30 million people crossed the Atlantic to come to America and Canada. He discussed the greatest migration of people in history. I enjoyed it as he is a very good speaker and was a university history professor. After the lecture I went to The Cafe for an afternoon cappuccino.
Explorer has a culinary arts kitchen which is used just for cooking classes. I signed up for a class on preparing fish dishes for tomorrow morning. It is a two hour class and costs $89. You will see photos of it in today's link.
This evening is the Captain's Welcome Reception at 6:00 in the theatre. There is a reception line to meet the Captain but we were advised that there will be no shaking of hands or hugging due to flu back in the US. We have met Captain Stan on another cruise so may not attend this.
Here is today's photo link. I have over 50 photos on it today. Cut and paste it to another browser, then click on the first photo. That will enlarge it and you can then see my captions on right side. Arrow through rest.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/seBOskkKQFWN96Jf2
