Iceland Cruise Days 11 and 12

I’m lazy and combining August 12 and 13 (cruise days 11 and 12).

We did encounter the forecast rough seas after midnight after leaving Qaqortoq. The captain said later there were 60mph winds and 5 meter seas. The rocking was rough but not overly so.

The seas continued to make their presence known the next two days.

I wonder what the black squares are over Greenland:

Google Maps satellite view of the North Atlantic showing the cruise ship's position as a blue dot with a red dropped pin midway between the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland, with Greenland labeled to the west (partly obscured by black squares over the ice sheet), Iceland to the east, and Ireland at lower right

I was making my way through a cold these days, so much of the time I was hermited in the room. On the second day I broke down and bought some pricy Nyquil from the onboard store and started dosing that. I still slept like absolute garbage for a few nights.

Rowan and Siena have spent most of their waking hours with their ship friends. I know they’re both dreading the last night of the cruise.

Our sunset for August 12: Sunset over the open North Atlantic seen from the cruise ship, the sun glowing orange and yellow low on the horizon beneath a band of clouds, with warm light reflecting in a rippling path across the choppy dark blue waves

Siena’s phone got itself into a state and we had to wait for the battery to die to fix it. It wouldn’t even respond to attempts to hard power cycle. An iPhone lying on a gold-yellow bedspread showing the power-off screen with a 'slide to power off' slider and an 'Unable to Install Word Cookies, Please try again later' error dialog, illustrating the phone stuck in an unresponsive state As the parent of a teenage girl, I’m very glad that the hard reboot fixed it.