After 5 consecutive days of island adventures, we were ready for our 3 at sea days coming back. Today was beautiful. We took it VERY easy. We went out on deck 5 and found loungers to read in. A lazy lunch, then the 4th Thriller Dance practice for me. Today, I think I can do it. The jury was out before today. We have one more practice before performing in the Centrum. We wanted to go to the show, which was the singers and dancers doing Broadway. All went well until the guy next to me had a female friend come sit on his lap jokingly and spilled about a half a glass of wine all over me. They were very apologetic, I had on black pants and it was white wine so no worries! Then on to dinner. We tried a new thing - Majority Rules game. It was kinda fun but wouldn't do it again. Then we went to the centrum to listen to the music and have a last drink before bed. Continuing with the every other night towel animal theme we found this - which we THINK is a sunbathing human??
The next morning arrived and we slept well, enjoying our extra hour of sleep! The seas are a bit rockier, as we had been told it would be so we both donned our sea bands and took a Bonine just in case. The barf bags are appearing again just in case also.
We enjoyed sitting in the centrum and reading until the event of the morning which was way more fun than we expected. It was the egg drop. Each team that competed was given a packet with materials like a plastic cup, popsicle sticks, cotton balls, paper, a pipe cleaner and also given an arm's length of tape. They were to build a vehicle to protect a raw egg when dropped from the 8th deck down to the 4th. It was much fun to see what folks built, what they named it, and whether or not their egg survived the drop. If it survived drop 1 they were to go to the next round - drop 2, same contraption but this time you had to survive AND be closest to a target to win. Two teams tied. Some of the eggs came down with a splat, some fluttered as folks built parachutes.
The landing zone....
And Thriller dance practice again. Then lunch. The buffet is on the top deck, which gets a lot of motion, and by lunchtime it was hard to tell the drunk folks (yes there are a few that early) from the sober ones with the motion of the ship making for challenging walking. Bill took this shot from our deck 2 window.
We came back to our cabin to find departure tags for our bags along with our assigned departure waiting spot. A few games of magnetic battleship ensued - a treat in our stocking from Santa. I won 2 out of 3!
Tonight was formal night so we got a bit gussied up (hardly formal) and headed to the dinning room to enjoy lobster. During dinner they brought out the chef teams to be recognized. There are over 400 folks supporting the dining operations here!
Then on to the Schooner Bar to have a glass of vino before the quest game. The piano player, whom we had heard early on in the cruise, was almost unrecognizable. He was not good, and I swore it must be a different guy. But no, I decided it was the same guy but he was either sick or had a few because he was really bad. We picked up our drink and went on to the adjoining area where the next game we were going to participate in was going to happen. This was called the quest. It's kind of like an audience participation scavenger hunt. It's an adult only event (there are only 36 kids on this cruise and this happened at 10:15 so that's easy to attain). They break the audience into teams and request items that each team must attain and show to gain points. And at 2 points the audience has to get up and dance to music. Each team has a male and a female captain. Some things they asked for: a 6 person rowing canoe... for this one I saw a woman quite well along in years get on the floor and row. Another was having to have 2 men change clothing. Black teeth - which produced combs and zippers. Then there were some suggestive ones. We participated in a couple of ways. They asked for a woman wearing pink underwear. I had on pink underwear so I ran up to the host and hiked up the side of my dress to show it. Bill provided shoelaces when they needed 12, and a belt when they needed 7 hooked together. I provided a bra when they wanted 6 of those (which I could wiggle out of without showing anything) and Bill dropped his drawers when they wanted 7 pair of men's pants. I didn't think of grabbing a pic of him in his underwear (thankfully he had on a shirt with a long shirt tail) but grabbed his phone and grabbed a blurry pic as he was putting himself back together.
It turned out to be a lot of fun, but our team did not win. Darnit!
Breakfast the final day (and a dance on my part with Shekinah our assistant waiter as we exited the buffet area, off the ship and on the bus to take us back to our car in 30 min. All in all a most wonderful vacation!
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