Eleventh Day of Cruise — Second Sea Day
Did a time-change last night. Got up just before 7 a.m., after going to bed about 10 p.m.. With the time change it was 10 hours of sleep. I went to the pool and it was drained. I checked the daily sheet and found it was supposed to open at 8 a.m.. At 8:30 it was still not full and covered with a net. I found out later from the guy watching with me at 8:30 that it didn’t open until sometime after 9 a.m.
So since I couldn’t get my morning swim in, I went back to the room, where everyone got their showers, and we went to breakfast at Windows about 9:40 a.m. Nathan didn’t want to go, and was dragging along the way, but recovered and was pleasant dining company during the meal. I tried the Broiled Scottish Kippers, which was an interesting and nice change. Small boneless (or at least small-boned) fish — smoked and salted.
After breakfast I got my swim, and then watched Isaac play chess with Kent and then played chess with Nathan. He did a very good job. Took me a long time to finally beat him, and there were a couple of moves where I might have lost it.
Then we went down to get our Passports back, and from there it was on to Windows for lunch for Betsy, Carly and I. Nathan went on his own to Raffles.
After that Betsy and I took a nap, and then I went for a swim. Then I started looking for Carly. She managed to elude us for 90 minutes of search before Betsy found her just before we were headed to a 5:30 supper at Windows. It was a final dress up night — the last evening all 11 of us will be together on the trip. Mom commented on how nice Nathan looked dressed up. We also commented on some of the haphazard service we got while dining during the trip. I commented on trouble getting my hot tea until after the dessert course was completely done several times, for example, while mom commented on having trouble getting water reflilled, or even getting any refills on her iced tea.
We had jut a few minutes to get to the evenings show — Elements. It was a mostly full house, and the big surprise for us was that the show featured the acrobats and magician and assistant from earlier in the cruise. They had a lot of costume changes to represent the Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Many of the costumes were quite sheer. For example, the guys had full-body suits for the Water section that were solid below, and solid on half the torso halfway up, but obscured nothing on the rest of the torso. Some of the other costumes gave the guys short shorts and showed a lot of leg, which was also paired with sheer black netting shirts.
The end of the show was a parade of support staff and a round of applause thank you to them for us on the cruise.
After that I put on my swimsuit for a swim — and had the entire pool to myself except for one short time where two people jumped almost in front of me and then got out.
Now we are in the crowd of people doing the Chocoholic Buffet at Raffles. Sort of an almost-end-of-cruise food extravaganza.
At The Rainbow 