Two more days of sea life before we hit Papeete. Cabin fever seems to have made one or two more people than usual grumpy, or maybe it is just that we are still meeting new people? Darryl’s favourite is when using the lifts, to ask for someone to press the button for deck 13. Some people really do not have a sense of humour. (For those new to cruise or shipboard life, the superstitions around maritime life include the number 13, so there is no deck 13...)
Another terrible night’s sleep, as despite the Vick’s ‘First Defence’ some enterprising bugs seem to have made it through, so a croaky voice and a bit of a cough. I had the coffee-bag coffee with the fairly late breakfast – and succumbed to a cherry Danish too.
After a bit of a rest (OK, some may say there is touch of irony there) we ambled up for lunch just a minute or two before the Indian buffet closed. We probably grabbed the very last pieces of chicken, which may not have been such a good idea. We stayed outside on deck 14 to watch the tug o’war between the various staff departments. The first time we have ever seen a team booed! It was the casino staff team (with the fitness instructors). Probably the two departments on the ship that empty your wallets with nothing much to show for it.
The Musician’s team under Sarah Dyer turned up a couple of minutes late and weren’t allowed to compete, which we think was a harsh decision. The Entertainment staff team had Kim who weighs next to nothing and Prince who probably doesn’t weigh much more, eliminated in round one. No surprise there.
The casino/salon team won.
The afternoon ukulele class was the usual test of dexterity, before rushing to trivia – but I needn’t have bothered, as I couldn’t add any value to the questions our team couldn’t answer without me.
Captain’s Circle drinks in the atrium before dinner and the Chateau Cask Red had a few takers who may have regretted it later. One most obviously so, late in the evening needing some assistance to stand after he had presumably keeled over.
We decided to have a go at Matt’s TV Themes trivia. On Matt’s own admission, giving us too many TV themes that went so far back, that most in the audience probably didn’t even have a TV set, probably wasn’t such a good idea as even the winners only managed 9/15!
On then to another production show “Motown Gold”. No prizes for guessing the theme.
An atrium hot chocolate and down on deck 5, a fairly well lubricated group were having a whale of a time with a sing-song. We are not too sure what the deck 7 pianist thought about the noise wafting upwards, but we thought it hilarious! At 10:50, just before the pizzeria closed, they had a couple of pizzas to share which was a good move.
Sunday August 17th
Not such a good night, but this time, either the chicken curry or the one glass of cardboard red upset Paula’s sleep.
She felt much better later in the day having watched Federer win.
After dinner and a little bit of dancing to the Tritones Duo, we opted to see Maggie Scott’s second show, ‘Live is a Lemon’ which we had seen before. As we enjoyed her first show which had changed from earlier cruises, we thought that maybe her second show would also be worth a go. We were not disappointed and a packed house thoroughly enjoyed what was rated as an R15 show. She is obviously much loved by the Australians and got a deserved standing ovation. Some of her material was indeed R15, but we didn’t see anyone walk out - and some of the more risqué material got the biggest laughs.
Land tomorrow! We never thought we’d be so excited to be arriving in Papeete. Clocks back another hour tonight.
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