2025 15N Trans-Atlantic Cruise Day 11: Sea Day #5

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Today’s Weather

A solid night’s sleep. Bruised from the fall yesterday…and feel like a chest cold may be coming on. (It did. It was minor.) Spent next several days on DayQuil + Bendryl at night.

Minor crisis at Chop’s: a waiter dropped his tray cocktails and got a guest wet. Oh, horrors. For us, Chops was excellent. My ribeye was perfect, and really enjoyed the Pork Belly appetizer. They messed up our Baked Potato order (making it fully loaded), but there was no reason to mention it – we had too much food already.

The Headliner show were husband and wife magician team of Kyle and Mistie Knight. Very polished and slick, and Kyle’s sleight of hand involving 4 coins on a black velvet table on his lap that morphed into 16 coins was VERY good. However, in the end, it was kind of sterile.

Clocks went back another hour again tonight. At 1245A we got a bing bong from Kat that someone reported the Northern Lights again, this time off the starboard side of the ship near the back. This time we chose to get dressed in hopes of seeing something, so trooped up to deck 12 down my Izumi and found shelter against a raging wind for about 30 minutes, hoping to see something more than a halo with the naked eye. While the camera picked up a lot of green there was nothing otherwise visible – and too much cloud cover. Upon return to the cabin we both slept poorly.

Another (failed) attempt to see Northern Lights with the naked eye