The Adventures of Linda and David: Tuesday At Sea

Tuesday was a full day at sea. We sunbathed on deck then in the afternoon went to the Newlywed Game show which was a riot. We also went to play Bingo but the prices were steep… $10/card and they were only going to play one game of straight bingo so the chances of winning were not that great considering the amount of people playing. Instead I opted to purchase 10 scratch and win tickets for $10. I didn’t win anything on any of them but there was to be a second chance drawing afterward and you had to write your name and room number on the back of each card. I had 10 cards in the box and I would say there were probably less than 50 cards in the box at drawing time so I felt lucky! Sure enough, one of my cards was pulled and I went to the stage to accept my prize… a bottle of champagne along with some coupons for the spa and a Carnival winners medal. Whoo hoo! Jamie still felt bad all morning but as the day went on she started to feel better. Not long before dinner time I started getting sick. We had been on rough water, rocking like crazy for 24 hours by the time it hit me. It was formal night and I had really been looking forward to getting dressed up. Jamie had been dreading it. The closer it got to dinner time the worse I felt. We got to the table and it was the first night we met our table mates. Two women who were a mother and daughter and couple more women who I think were sisters. All were from Oklahoma but the daughter lived in Arkansas. We had a great dinner but I was feeling worse and worse by the minute. I couldn’t even eat the food I had ordered. One of our waitstaff suggested I have an apple and some ginger ale and she brought the ginger ale for me to sip on. The sweet mother and daughter told us they were wearing patches to prevent motion sickness and seeing how bad I was feeling and hearing about how bad Jamie felt they offered us two of their patches. Their doctors had given them a prescription and each had 4 patches and they only needed one each for the cruise so they offered one to each of us. There were life-savers! I went directly back to our cabin and put my pj’s on and Jamie went with the women to their room to get the 2 patches. Jamie placed mine behind my ear for me as I was too sick to even do it myself. After a couple of hours I thought I was feeling better so decided to go see one of the shows. Jamie wanted to stay in the room and watch something on TV so I went alone. The show was OK, but I was still feeling poorly and the stage had a part that rotated and the dancers were also running and turning around as it rotated… just what I needed… more motion!!! I left at the first opportunity and went on to bed.