{"id":44,"date":"2015-05-30T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-08-22T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:17:06","slug":"seasickness-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/seasickness-and-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasickness and Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday May 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up at 5:30 am. The sun was already up. Went up to the Lido Restaurant (buffet), to discover that there was almost no one there. Food wasn&#8217;t ready, either. Apparently, continental breakfast started at 6:30, with full breakfast at 7:00. Coffee was available, so I brought a cup back to the room.<\/p>\n<p>I walked deck 3 outside, and also went to the bow, which was as windy as Pali Lookout. It still wasn&#8217;t cold, and there was no need for my jacket, although I did notice that most other walkers were bundled up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-44-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ToTheBow.mp4?_=1\" \/>To the Bow<a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ToTheBow.mp4\">http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ToTheBow.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Usually, I use Gimp to edit my pictures, but I discovered that my newly-loaded Gimp 2.8 doesn&#8217;t work well on my old XP laptop. Fortunately, I already had Photo Impression 6 loaded, so am using that. There&#8217;s no updating software at sea, at least not without paying outrageous prices for internet access. I&#8217;m beginning to think that maybe shipboard access is reasonably fast, maybe 1.5 Mbps, because so few people use it. I think I saw only 2 people on laptops, and even then, I&#8217;m not certain that they were on the internet. I&#8217;m not, that&#8217;s for sure. I&#8217;m writing blog articles offline with Zoundry Raven.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:30 am, Merrianne and I went up to the buffet for breakfast. There was lox, capers, tomatoes, and onions.so I had a kind of Lomi Salmon. I also had a couple pieces of french toast, and 2 glasses of orange juice. We were encountering rougher seas, so I was starting to feel it.<\/p>\n<p>I went back to the cabin to lie down, but only got more seasick when I got up. Fortunately, Jackie had some Bonine, which Merrianne fetched for me, as I was unable to walk around on my own. The medicine seemed to help a little after just 5 minutes, but not fully. I took a nap, and when I woke up at nearly noon, I was fine.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lunch\" alt=\"in the Rottendam dining room\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/lunch2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four of us had lunch at the Rotterdam dining room. I got the &#8220;asian style&#8221; burger. Kobe beef, it was not. They like to cook their meats well done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On Deck\" alt=\"On Deck\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/DeckWinds.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After lunch, we strolled the deck. The winds were still blowing, although not nearly as strongly as in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In the afternoon we attended a talk in the auditorium about wildlife.. It&#8217;s the sort of thing I usually find fascinating, but I found myself nodding off. Did you know that the Brown Bear is the same Species as the Grizzly?<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"tea\" alt=\"high tea at the dining room\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/tea.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was a free tea in the dining room every day. Merrianne and I tried it, then I went back to the cabin to sleep more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"dinner\" alt=\"formal night at the dining room\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/formal.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For dinner, we went back to the dining room with Jackie and Steve. It was the formal night, so I put on my suit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ShrimpAndEscargot.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/alaska2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ShrimpAndEscargot.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I had the shrimp cocktail and Merrianne had escargot for appetizers. It was a fine meal, but I&#8217;m anxious to escape the confines of the ship tomorrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday May 28, 2015. I woke up at 5:30 am. The sun was already up. Went up to the Lido Restaurant (buffet), to discover that there was almost no one there. Food wasn&#8217;t ready, either. Apparently, continental breakfast started at 6:30, with full breakfast at 7:00. 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