I'm leaving most of the crossing on the Queen Mary 2 for Craig to post about. I loved every minute of the voyage and I didn't want that part of our adventure to end. It was so relaxing and wonderful. I was sad to leave the ship, even with such an amazing trip ahead.
But there is one phase from the ship that has a permanent place in my heart - "quite comfortable."
The first few days of our voyage were incredibly smooth. We met several people on board who had taken this trip before and all of them remarked on how calm the waters had been. I heard several people refer to the sea as a being "as still as a mill pond." While I can't make much of a comparison, having only been on one cruise in my life, it was lovely the first couple days.
In the middle of the night, the seas got much more...interesting. We woke up to find that nearly all the outside decks had been closed due to high winds. And the movement of the ship was beginning to make walking about, even inside our cabin, a bit challenging.
But at noon, when the captain made his daily announcement, he said something that struck Craig and I as hilariously funny. After telling us that the decks were closed because of "gale force 9 winds" and that we were experiencing "significant swell," he told us that the ship was traveling "quite comfortably" through the weather. He repeated the phrase "quite comfortable" several different times, in several different contexts. As if by saying it over and over, he might convince us of his truth. The ship was traveling "quite comfortably" and we were all "quite comfortable" and so on.
Indeed, we have been "quite comfortable" for every minute of our honeymoon adventure so far.
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