Yet another sea day and one that we may well remember for a while. Remember, we won trivia yesterday morning, on a tie breaker, so we didn’t really expect great things today. Just shows how wrong you can be... It was Cruise Director Mark’s turn and guess what, we were the only ones with our hands still up at 19/20, but we actually had 20/20 and as the last answer was ‘Gangman Style’, Sue did the gangman dance as a celebration! To win once is a surprise. To win two on the trot, considering our usual scores of about 12 or 13, stunned us.
As the choir were doing their bit in the atrium and the weather was fine, we opted to sit outside the ice cream parlour. Now non-cruisers may not know this, but on Princess ships, soft serve ice cream is free. Yes, free! So three of the team celebrated with ice cream followed by hot chocolate and I had a coffee. Not a very good one unfortunately.
As the golf had been on the TV all day, I missed the start of the German GP replay, but managed to watch it from lap 10.
We didn’t win afternoon trivia… Do we care? Well, what do you think?
It was formal night again and the early show at 6pm in the Vista lounge was violinist Chris Watkin’s final show. Another fantastic show (partially ruined for us by a faulty bass speaker) but as we were front row, Paula was just about reduced to tears by his rendition of ‘Danny Boy’ – his much loved 93 year old grandmother’s favourite piece.
He got a well-deserved standing ovation – again. We hung back a bit and joined the queue to purchase his CD. As mentioned before, we’d chatted to Chris several times and as we were front row, he’d noticed that Paula was moved by Danny Boy – and that moved him too!
He knew that I kept a list and rated musicians and with a big grin, with both hands out, raised “Did I get a 10????”
“Nope” I said, “I’ve given you an 11!”
(If you are interested, his CD has 13 tracks - check out his website <fireworkson4strings.com>)
As a formal night, free drinks in the atrium seemed better than on previous cruises and we had the traditional celebration of the top 3 days cruised – about 1500…
An excellent beef Wellington then after a bit of dancing to Sarah’s orchestra, to the theatre again for this troupe’s final offering as they are getting off in New York, was another favourite ‘The British Invasion’, now slashed to just 30 minutes, which appears to be a Princess policy. A good show though.
The party band were too loud for us so we called it a night, with yet another hour back as we approach Boston.
Our call for our face to face immigration is for 8am – approximately half way through the list and they start at 7am, as soon as we dock. It will be interesting to see how fast they process all 1850 passengers.
(A confession. We got 20/20 for Mark’s trivia as he’d used the same one last year and we knew about the bandy-bandy and correctly remembered the ‘cassis’. As many others were probably at that quiz too, a memory test – but we still did better than anyone else!)
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