Sea Day #3 - Bay of Bengal

March 7, 2025

This is our last sea day on our way to Colombo, Sri Lanka.  The weather continues to be glorious and today the seas are about as calm as I’ve ever seen open ocean to be.  It looks like we could water ski.  We’ve been so lucky with the weather and calm ocean.  It doesn’t seem like we’ve felt the ship rock once.

I went downstairs today to check out a group representing an organization called “Project Linus” (as in Linus from “Peanuts”).  Apparently, this is their 25th year of being sponsored by Holland America Line (HAL).  It is a group of men and women that knit and/or crochet afghans for kids with cancer while cruising on these uber long voyages. Since I’m an avid knitter, have trouble sitting doing nothing for extended periods of time, and  am always up to support a good cause, I thought I’d check them out.  They had mountains of yarn in every imaginable color, patterns and everything you would need to start a project.  I perused some patterns, chose my yarns and now I’m official “blanketeer”. I have a big project for the upcoming sea days of which there will be many.

Passing on the left…

Tomorrow morning we should open our curtains in Colombo!