At Sea Sept 27, 2025

A group photo was taken of our Cruise Gang.  Bottom to top: Elizabeth and Alex, Mike and Valerie, Angie and Maggie, Linda and Mike, Robert and Janet, Kelly and Barbara, Butch and Donna.

 

We saw an acrobatic juggling show the night of Zadar, too.

There was a lovely lighting show waaaayoff in the distance after our discovery of the crepe-making station. We finally found it! We ate them in the outside cafe at the back of the ship.

On the "At Sea" day ( Saturday) I didn't take any photos. I left my phone in the room. We wandered around, ate, took a group picture. Played cards. Took naps. Ate a bit too much, too late. But that Brazilian Restaurant meal was our one "Speciality Meal" that was part of the promotion, so we tried to enjoy it. Lots of meat and a very unique salad bar. But a 9 pm meal is just too late. However, it didn't keep me up late with heartburn, thankfully. 

I attended a presentation on "How to Run a Floating Hotel" that I really enjoyed. 36,000 fresh eggs used on average per 7 day cruise. Yowza!

With ALL passengers on board Saturday, the pool area was crazy busy. 

We found a prominade deck that circles the entire ship outside! 

I learned to play shuffleboard today and played in a "Tournament" with strangers for a few minutes, played with Robert after because he came to watch and cheer for  me, and then I  played later with Mike.  Mike and I also played in a Cornhole "Tournament" in the busy Atrium area. I was just curious to see how and where they would do that in such a space. It consisted of one small Cornhole board (NOT regulation!) set up where performers usually stand and perform music, 12 or so  people who signed up on a clipboard, each person took a turn tossing the 4 beanbags, the game guy kept score, then we tossed again. He tallied up the score for bags got in the hole, and after two rounds, we were done. It took all of 20 minutes or less and the winner got a deck of "Norwegian" playing cards as their prize. So now I know! Haha. Sorry I took no photos. 

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What I wrote in my notes on Saturday when the Internet was "down" :

Saturday Sept 27, 2026 day 4 of Adriatic Sea cruise on the Norwegian Pearl.

This is our at sea day. I think it is the only at sea day that we have on this 10-day cruise. I also think it is a rather odd coincidence that they have a computer glitch with their network on the only day that we have totally on the ship to spend money, gamble, and shop in the stores exclusively. Nobody can leave the ship for excursions. I was getting very frustrated about not being able to log in and look at the online Norwegian freestyle daily newspaper. That tells me the events that are going on for the day. I couldn't make plans for the day because I didn't know what was going on for the day because I couldn't get a logged in! I also couldn't get logged in to read my audiobook. Nothing was working. And yet my device SAID I was logged in. Hmm. Sounds suspicious to me.

 However, Mike did have a tender mercy. His phone has mostly been off. But last night he had a text from Keala Cupp in Las Vegas, but the message never showed, just that there WAS a message.  And he worried about that. As in, it kept him up all night and he was unable to sleep. He was just worried about his friend, Don. Don has had cancer and it was pretty bad.  Once we got me logged out and Mike logged in, we were able to see that the message from Keala and it said Don Cupp had indeed passed away. But he passed away on September 2nd and today is the 27th! That news was a long time coming. I'm pretty sure Mike would have like to have attended a memorial service for him, but we never knew. The tender mercy was that of all the text messages that tried coming to Mike's phone-- ONLY Keala's was readable. None of the others were anything more than a notification that there was a message but content was "unavailable" at this time.

 

We slept in, didn't do ANY reading because we only brought e-books-- which had worked fine until today's " glitch"! We ate a late breakfast outside in the aft deck.

Blue skies, temps in the low 70's no wind because we're barely moving. It's so relaxing and chill .

Even though the ship is at capacity at around 2400 passengers, it's not too bad. Yes, the pool area is full and you have to look hard to find a place to sit in the buffet area. But it's not bad. 

I did attend one presentation on" how to run a floating Hotel" that I found fascinating. 36,000 fresh eggs per 7 day cruise in average. Washers with a capacity of 275 lbs. Each. 

Mike and I took some time to play cards together, enjoy Virgin Pina coladas, ask about the cruise next program and found a couple of our fellow family member cruisers. But only briefly.

We even lounged on a deck on chaise  lounges in the sun for about  20 min or so. 

And don't forget the naps! How we love our naps😃🥱