Day 91 - At sea - Rock 'n Rolling

A good, undisturbed sleep – which is a bit of a luxury, but not long after leaving Pago Pago (pronounced Pango Pango) the ship started moving around a bit, so not the smoothest of nights.  The coughing seems to be fading but hasn’t yet gone altogether.

We were up for breakfast about 9am and headed for trivia at 11am, but as usual, Alfredo Marzi, the Princess Executive chef was doing one of his culinary demonstrations.  In the past, he has always been ‘assisted’ by the Maitre  d’Hotel, but not on this cruise.  The Maitre D’ is a very likeable and quite funny so maybe he doesn’t care for the rather arrogant Excecutive chef?  As usual, the demo ran well over time (20 minutes) which then puts pressure on several other activities.

We didn’t win.  After a deck 7 coffee, Paula and I went to the front desk and drew out the remainder of our credit in cash.  We now have a positive balance of just $2.51, which I am sure we’ll be able to spend.

Paula and Sue went off to see the film at 1pm – but there wasn’t one!

Meanwhile, I’d been sorting out some minor packing, including the contents of the drawers and also the safe.  I started to panic when I couldn’t find my wallet containing my UK driving licence, Costa’s coffee card (most important!) and my credit card.

I didn’t really panic, but as the safe is located in a dark cupboard and the lining is black, the black wallet was eventually found tucked up against the dark end.  Phew!  I know I am not the first who has had that problem.

We headed for trivia but Mike didn’t make it as he’d cut his head.  We were joined by an odd lady who didn’t exactly endear herself as she took over the writing and spent more time writing out the questions than contributing to the answers, leaving gaps all over the place, which didn’t go down too well – nor did her very smelly feet!   Paula was just about gagging and we were so pleased when trivia was over and we could grab some fresh air.

The early show at 6:15 was Roland Storm again, this time just with his keyboard.  Lots of short versions of various Rock ‘n Roll numbers and a bit of current history of the stars of yesteryear.  He just loves performing.  Given the chance, I think he’d be running for at least 2 hours but at least he has that amount of material, unlike some.  I really enjoyed his style and presentation.  He loves performing so much that he overran by 15 minutes, so the second show people were queuing up in the corridor and we had to rush to the pizzeria, where we were supposed to be at 7pm, with the dance group.

A nice meal and 14 of us to enjoy it.

The 9:45pm show was billed as ‘comedy vocalist’ Shayne-Ann O’Leary.  A rather buxom blonde and her show was all about blonde singers.  She wasn’t a vocal impressionist (if she was, they all sounded the same) and she wasn’t really much of a comedienne either.  No better than a 7/10 I’m afraid.

Just Paula and I for a late night drink on deck 5.

Bed 11:40pm and hoping that the Belgian GP would be live on TV.  It wasn’t.  The ship was still rocking and rolling and I suspect we won’t have an easy night’s sleep.