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Today has been a pretty rough day at sea. It’s interesting to see how everyone is handling it. Pretty much all of the stewards, and the purser are so sick that they can’t even think. One of the deck hands isn’t faring all to well either, but the other three are seemingly doing pretty well. As the trip progresses the waves are going to get bigger and bigger, so I’m sure that the condition of the group will worsen as well. I’m still holding up real good, I just try and keep busy, keep my mind occupied and it’s working pretty good for me. Sitting and doing nothing only makes it worse.

I have plans to try and spend a little time on the bridge this trip, the second mate said that it would be cool to hang with her and keep her company while she drives. It’s a pretty rough ride up there, so I’ll probably just try and find a good time where I won’t be too much trouble, then hang out for as long as I can. I’m sure that someone to shoot the breeze with for a while is never too bad of a thing, especially early in the morning when it’s usually a time when you would be sleeping.

The captain did an ETA for San Diego based on our current efforts and we are moving a bit slower than we had hoped. It looks like we are going to end up being about a 1/2 day behind schedule. Kind of a bummer, but that might mean we will get a little bit of free time to go trip around the port, so I’m not really hearing much complaints. I would imagine most of the people on this boat are going to be kissing solid ground when we get there, so I’m sure it will be a sight.

All is good in the Galley, we are getting things cleaned up nicely and we are using our stores quite well. Since we are on schedule and the boat is behind schedule we are looking very good. I steam cleaned the ovens last night and the hard to reach spots in the Galley tonight, so there isn’t a whole lot left to do. All we really have left is cleaning the main refrigerator, and getting things buttoned up. No big deal. Our Galley team is on top of things, thank God! The Stewards are going to be cramming the last couple of days to get caught up, I hope that it works out for them.