winner's bubbly

14122016



Woke up at a respectable time, Laura went to the gym to be healthy, I slept a little extra. We then headed to the dining room for lunch.

The dining room lunches are pretty great, 3 courses, plenty flavors, I had a grilled veggie pesto wrap, and Laura had a tuna poke tostada.

After lunch we went to trivia, a little too late, so we didn't have a team, just laura and I, we didn't do so hot, but we got a respectable 7/15.

From trivia we went to the auditorium thing, to listen to the Captains Brief. The captain sits on the stage and lets people ask questions for about 35 minutes. I got to ask one of my burning questions…

“How many of the passengers take ‘their last cruise into the sunset’? And what are the procedures when that does happen?”

He skirted the first question, but did explain that the procedures vary on the country they are docking in. Some countries require you to disembark the remains, and send it home, others do not allow you to disembark the remains and you leave it on board. But there is a morgue, so its all good, as long as the ship has power, it can stay on here forever.

Immediately after the captains brief was the Filipino Cultural Show. The staff on the boat are made up of predominantly Filipino and Indonesian, so the former get together and put on a little number to introduce the passengers to their culture. There were a few traditional dances and some singing, it was pretty neat. The whole show was directed and planned by the crew themselves, in fact the director is our second favorite bartender.

After this we went to meet some new friends for dinner. We have befriended two australian couples, mostly through trivia, but also just running into each other. They invited us to dinner to help them drink a bottle of champagne that they had.

This was also one of the Gala nights, where the dining room is more formal, and has more food, it is 4 courses instead of the normal 3. We ate the food and drank the bubbly and generally chatted, before going down for MORE trivia.

And we WON, not only did we win, but this was a good day to win, not only did we win a free bottle of Champagne, we also won some gold bracelets from the jewelry shop onboard. It was pretty great.

After trivia we played more scrabble, and then headed off to bed for the extra early morning before our day in Cambodia.