Got up at 7.30am and went out onto our balcony, where the weather was warm and sultry and the sun was already quite hot. Today would be our last full day at sea before reaching our first port of call tomorrow. As today was Hallowe'en, which is celebrated much more in the USA than it is at home, many passengers had adorned the doors of their cabins with paper decorations depicting ghosts, black cats, witches and pumpkins. Before leaving home I'd assembled a gre...

Got up at 7.30 this morning and were dismayed to see that the decks were wet, and it wasn't because the deck-hands had been washing them. After getting washed and dressed we made our way up to Deck 14 to take the route alongside the pool to the Ocean View café. There was a fine rain (what we called a 'mizzle', i.e. mist+drizzle) so we decided to take the slightly-longer way across, under the canopies for shelter. As we did so, the skies opened and the rain c...

Got up at eight o'clock this morning and went out onto the balcony to see what the weather was like. Once again, although dry, it was cooler than we'd expected and cloudy, but the Pacific Ocean was fairly calm as the Celebrity Eclipse glided through the waves, and we enjoyed the hypnotic shhhhh shhhhh of the sea washing against the side of the ship. We went and had our breakfasts in the Ocean View café and had a wander out on deck. Quite a few people were pow...

We awoke early this morning; in fact, at 6.00am I went out onto the balcony hoping to watch the sun rise, but we were on the wrong side of the ship! Nevertheless we lay in bed for a while, looking out at the mesmerising sight of the sea passing by, then got up around 6.30am. The weather was cooler than we expected, and although it was bright and dry there were quite a few cumulus clouds in the sky and we hoped the sun would come out later. Today was the first ...

As expected, we kept waking up through the night, but we still did manage to get some quality sleep, so we got up at 6.35am and I made a beeline for the large bathroom and enjoyed a long, hot shower and washed my hair. While I was getting ready, we made the most of the coffee percolator in our room and watched the breakfast time news. Opening our room curtains wide, we looked out across the road towards the airport where we could see aircraft taking off and landi...