You are all excited to hear that it’s a sea day which means it’s a Sarah’s blog day (and the crowd goes wilder).
It was anything but a quiet sea day. We had our usual breakfast and then went to the meeting point for our organised navigational bridge tour. When we arrived on the bridge we were told that it had to be postponed due to the fact that two officers need to be on the bridge at the time of the tour, and the rest of the staff were down having a photo taken. We then returned to the Observation Deck, looked over and saw the staff photo being taken. We know there are about 330 of them, but you rarely see them onboard and can’t comprehend that many until you see them all together. We were lucky enough to walk out there as the photo was being taken, so we took one too.
We then returned to the bridge and had a brief visit with the captain.
He spends next to no time on the bridge, only in emergencies, arrival and departures. What a great life. The crew on the bridge work 4 hours on and 8 hours off which I think is pretty amazing considering the ship steers itself. Hardly stressful up there. I’m sure there’s much more to it than just sitting there looking out the window.
After the tour it was nice enough and almost warm enough to sit out on deck so we took the boys for a cocktail, non alcoholic of course. They couldn’t finish them so it was up to Alan and me. This was a bad move as it was right before trivia and the cold drinks caused us to suffer brain freeze. That’s our excuse for why we did so bad. Not sure what the excuse was from the others in our group. We did so badly we became the butt of all of the assistant cruise director’s jokes. The rest of the room found it quite amusing. At least we have a lot of fun with it, unlike some of the other teams who take it far too seriously.
As it was the first warmish day in 4 days, the patio grill had been reopened so we met Dad around the pool for lunch. After a slice of pizza and some chips, Alan made the decision to move inside to the Colonnade for a second lunch and, of course, dessert. Not sure we are going to be able to afford to feed him when we get off. You mean I won’t be getting 5 desserts after every meal once we’re back home?
Afternoon consisted of naps, for all of us.
We had an invite to an Australian cocktail party onboard in the Observation Bar just before dinner. What a waste of time! We gave that a 5 minute appearance and then made our way to dinner. We’ve had spectacular dinners every night but this one took the prize as the best. We started with potato gnocchi with smoked salmon, followed by lobster tail and lobster risotto (this was the biggest lobster tail I’ve ever seen) followed by a trio of creme brulee; chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate. I’ve waited forever to get a creme brulee here and it was well worth the wait.
After dinner we went to the show; a magician/comedian who was very very good. He was very funny and did some great tricks. Some of them I could figure out how he did them, but others I have no clue. After that, it was time for bed, our second last night on the ship. I personally won’t miss the cruising although the port days have been great. What I will miss is the wonderful staff and now many we can call friends, on this ship. Thank god for Facebook as we can still easily keep in touch.
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