This is Skywalkers – the night club/disco what ever you want to call it. Some one was thinking when they designed the ship. Skywalkers is on a deck of it’s own suspended a floor above the top deck of the ship. It has a walkway leading up to it with a people moving up the middle. I enjoyed taking that up. Shan preferred to walk. The only flaw in the design is that there are no bathrooms up there, you have to go back down to the deck below.
Skywalkers offered great views and during the day it was often empty. We went up there during the sail away to watch for awhile. Shannon decided to take this picture of me relaxing. Just as I am saying don’t get my feet in there. 
We also sat and relaxed by the indoor pool for a while. Sadly it was too cool to spend much time by the outdoor pools.
At some point during the afternoon we finished unpacking and getting our room set for the week. Around 5 pm we headed up to the Lotus Spa where they were giving tours of the spa and at 5:30 raffling off certificates for services. We figured we could sit through the sales pitch if it meant winning something. Sadly we did not win anything, but we did decide to sign up for pilates on Monday our first sea day and spinning on Friday our second sea day. Neither one of us had ever tried pilates or spinning, but that was our mantra for the cruise – lets try new things! Of course it helped that one of the fitness instructor was pretty cute – just ask Shan about him. After the giveaways we deiced to schedule massages. That was one thing we had both talked about doing on the cruise, but had not fully decided on. Unfortunately there were not too many open spots left, but we were able to get appointments on Monday at 9:00 am.After we left the spa we decide to go get some dinner. We had anytime dinning which meant we could eat in one of two dinning rooms anytime between 5:30 – 9:30 pm. We went to the Portofino dinning room – not sure why, I think it was the first one we found and there was not a wait. Once we were seated Shan let the waiter know that she has a shellfish allergy. He went to get the headwaiter; Andrew who put Shan on his list of food allergies and told her to ask for him as soon as we came in each time and he would make sure her food was prepared separately. I have to say I was impressed with Princesses handling of food allergies, my nephew has a peanut allergy, so I have seen restaurants handle it both good and bad. I would not hesitate to recommend Princess to anyone with dietary concerns. Here are Shannon and I at dinner.
We sat with three other couples that night. I think two of them were from Seattle or had lived in Seattle and the third was from Portland. They were very nice and the conversation never lagged. I had some sort of pasta that night – I don’t remember exactly what kind it was. The food was good and so was the service. No complaints. After dinner we wondered around the ship a bit, stopped in at the different lounges to hear the music, looked around the casino and then went to the 10:15 Welcome Aboard Show. It was at the show we found out the person who had walked by during the muster drill was the Cruise Director JJ. Over the week, JJ became a source of entertainment for us, the inside joke, the diversion, and our source of amusement. Anyone who knows me well knows I often find my comic relief in this fashion. The Welcome Aboard Show was good, it had a sampling of the shows to come, including the comedian Steve Moris who made me laugh a lot at his musical parodies. I will never sign little bunny foo foo the same again. (Yes I do often sign this song, I know lots of 2-3 year olds).After the show we headed up to bed for the night.
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