Day 67 - At Sea

Day 67 – Tuesday 18^th March 2014 – At Sea

A good work out in the gym and the joys of the sauna help to blow away the cobwebs and set you up for a quiet day at sea.

Choir practice at 13.00; numbers have been depleted with those leaving in Yokohama and insufficient new members have joined, so Tommi may find this one a struggle.

The weather has changed outside, with overcast skies and the wind on the nose, the ship is going along at 10/11 knots and not many people to be seen.

It is a formal night when the world voyagers are invited to the Captain’s cocktail party to meet the Senior Officers.  The displays in the Queen’s Ballroom of the Sydney Bridge, Chinese Junks, ice sculptures, all of which are surrounded by food and this time with a sushi bar on the go, are all a credit to the catering department.

We have got the hang of these gatherings; it is a chat with as many people as possible and two glasses of champagne before it is all over, then down to the Café Carinthia for a real gin and tonic before dinner.

Dinner consisted of snails/salad/snapper/ice cream, all very nice and back into the garlic snails.

In the theatre, a big Maori tenor, Ben Makisi, who was very good and stuck to the opera songs, while those we have seen before try to do the pop as well, which everyone wants to do now.

Finished off in the Golden Lion for the trivia wipe out quiz, and we were the winners again.  When you win you get points, and when you get points, you get prizes.  Laura reckons the prize could be a dishwasher, which maybe a box of marigolds.