Last sea day tomorrow

Really windy

All night and all today. Beautiful day at sea with sometimes deep waves. Temperature was moderate. The sunsets so late now though: after 8!

Interview with dancers and singers

This is the group that were on at the beginning of the cruise. One of them, Walker, is from Lejitas Texas, a little wide spot on the border. It seems there was a ballet diva who married someone from the area and she offered free ballet classes to the kids who were interested, so he took these classes. And now here he is dancing on the around the world ship.

Trivia

We did OK but didn’t win. However, this afternoon, much to our surprise, we tied with another team. Had there not have been a miscommunication in our group, we would have won outright. Nonetheless, after 3 tie breaker questions, WE WON. The tie breaker question was how many pints of blood are there in the human body. Ed had this right at hand. Someone with the other group came over to point out that (she had an American accent by the way—and the group behind them included an MD) the Brits were counting it in British pints. Now really folks: the beer is in those kinds of pints but you’d be hard pressed to convince me that their answer translated into the correct amount in cc or ounces!

Lunch with a transplant nurse from near Dallas. Nice couple; enjoyed their conversation.

Interview with Linda Gray

Who used to play Suellen on Dallas. I had it wrong, as did others, as I thought it was Linda Evans from Dynasty. It was a nice enough puff piece interview. She is 75, looks great, and has a book she is selling. She also took photos with passengers.

Formal night: did the photo routine, had our lobster.

Captain’s farewell was in the atrium with some of their champagne (which we could all live without).

Dance production show

Was quite well done. Very modern different set and that spiced it up.

Dread tomorrow which is packing day. If we could just take all our luggage off at once, I might not dread it so much (well it probably wouldn’t make a difference) but deciding what to keep and what to send forward is a pain. Then there are the things you must take with you like valuables. We have to be out of our room by 8 am. We leave the ship at 9:30 since we live locally. Then we will have the wonderful job of finding a large enough cab, willing to drive 40 miles to get us home.