Sea days what do you do?

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We had 9 days at sea before we reached New York. Sea days are very interesting & you can fill your day from morning to evening. There are insight lectures in the theatre by actors, explorers, botanists, former Concorde pilot, Generals, Astronauts etc etc.The library was spread over 2 decks containing 1,00s of books. Films in the theatre & every evening there were two shows String quartets playing around the ship. Bands playing in the evening in the Ballroom. Dancing at different times & in different venues. Excercise classes, sword fencubg the list goes on & on. There was also a gym, 3 swimming pools tow outside & one inside. A spa area with saunas and beauty treatments. Tennis courts & bowls & deck quoits. You can learn languages during the day which including French, Spanish, Cantonese. There were other classes of Bridge, Art classes & craft classes, ice & fruit carving demonstrations. Meeting with friends for drinks or just for a chat & making new acquaintences. Of course there was the food too all day long breakfast, lunch & dinner plus a late night buffet but the highlight was the afternoon tea in the Queens Ballroom a very formal affair with white gloved waiters entering armed with silver teapots, finger sandwiches, cakes & scones with clotted cream & strawberry jam & a harpist or string quartet playing in the background. This is every day & some people do go to each meal & eat like there is no tomorrow & you can visibly see the changes in size. We would skip lunch every day & if we had afternoon tea we would not go to dinner. I actually lost a stone as l was very strict with what l ate. At home l usually eat once a day but l can see the temptation of over indulging. At 6pm everything became so much more formal. Men had to wear jackets & women cocktail dresses. However for those who did not wish to they could dress smart casual & dine in the buffet & go to the onboard pub where there were quizzes & folk singers. There were cocktail parties & on formal gala nights there were themes, Black & white, Red & Gold, twenties night & maquerade ball when everyone dressed up in their finery. Some say it must be boring on a cruise but believe me you can do as much or as little as you wish. It is there for the taking if you want it. I intend to be even more discilpined as most days we were up & out around the ship from 8AM to 2AM nearly every night.