Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 - Amber Cove, Dominican Republic

Amber Cove

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Up as usual in the morning. We were still sailing, and expected to be at Amber Cove about 10:00. Up for breakfast and coffee, and were able to watch us come in. Once the pilot camae on board, we went into the pier. The ship backed in, once again beside the Holland America ship that left early from yesterday’s port.

Docked beside Holland America

When we were ready, we decided to head ashore. It was a fairly long walk along the pier before we got to land. Of course, the port was mostly tourist stuff. We went into many of the stores and purchased a few things. Met up with Carl and Martha and decided to head back to the ship. It was fairly hot, although overcast, so it would be nice to get back to where it was cooler.

We went up on deck to read and look around. After a while, Dawn went back to the cabin to knit and maybe have a nap.

We went downstairs to get set up for the games at about 3:00. The internet signal wasn’t overly strong, so the picture wasn’t the greatest. However, we did watch things and cheered when the Swedes won the game. Then we went up to the buffet for something to eat, and came back down to watch the Canada - Czech game. It got fairly quiet when the Czechs scored first, but once Canada started to get going, things became louder and more raucous.  In the end, the outcome was as we wanted it to be, Canada won 7-2.
We were pretty tired, so off to bed we went. Tomorrow is a day at sea, and then we watch the medal round games; USA vs Chech  for Bronze, and Canada vs Sweden for Gold.