Covid Cruise Day 5: Monday May 30 2022

Woke up to a knock at the door. I was so deeply asleep that I thought it was down the hall. 

Laura: “Did somebody just knock on our door?” 

Me: “I don’t think so.” 

There was a second knock then, clearly on our door. 

Laura: “Is it room service? They didn’t call.” 

Normally they phone the room to alert you that breakfast is coming, likely just in case you are asleep. We had no call. A third knock was barely cognitively registered in our waking fog. I got up to the go to the door. It was breakfast, delivered at 6:35 am instead of the indicated on the hangtag time of 7:30-8:00.

As I maneuvered the tray into the narrow hallow of our cabin and closed the door, Laura was turning on the TV. “I wonder if we changed time zones. But even still, why didn’t they call?” Before I had the tray to our little makeshift dining table she confirmed it: “Yeah. We are an hour ahead now. It’s 7:35.”

Well, gee thanks, Celebrity. As I’ve mentioned before, we feel like ghosts on this ship. Our cruise app stopped working because we aren’t registered for a cruise right now. We don’t have room keys. We don’t get the daily printed events program that is carefully placed on the corner of the bed each evening. Because of all that, we had no way of knowing there would even be a time change. They even make tasteful little table tents that exclaim the importance of knowing ship’s time will be changing, so you can plan accordingly.

But that doesn’t pertain to covid ghosts. 

Talking of ghosts, look at this cool photo
I took when we arrived to port in Helsinki.

Late morning Medical came by and swabbed our noses for the Day 5 covid test. If this test turns out negative we then test again on Day 6 and if that one is negative as well we will able to leave our room with masks on. Don’t know what that means exactly as we have no room key. 

An hour or so after our tests the lab results came in via email. We are negative! This is a great first step toward freedom!

Onward to Estonia…

With a time change (an hour later from the EU) sunrise is at 3:45 am and sunset is at 10:35 pm. The last of these amazing sunset photos was from around 11 pm local.