stupid timezones

19122016

Last day on the boat, and it was a full day at sea. We woke up late, because sleeping is great.

I wanted to sleep in more, Laura was hungry, she went to get breakfast, and read on the deck.

We met back up and hung out in the cabin, but our cabin steward knocked on the door to turn over the room. We told him to come back in an hour, around 1300, and went back to laying down.

The steward then came back 15 minutes later, and we elected to just leave the room so they could do their thing.

We went to play scrabble up in the library to waste some time.

Getting hungry we went up to the pool area to get burgers from the grill, neither of us were feeling that great. I think i was fighting a bit of a cold and laura was having a bout of seasickness. We met Ray, our friend from trivia, who has been travelling for much of the last 10 years, told a long round about story about his time cruising on a Yugoslav freighter and how to beat seasickness.

After eating, Laura and i tried to sleep off the ill feelings.

After the nap, we went to talk about a future cruise, because they provide incentives for early bookings. We put a minimal-fully-refundable deposit on a cruise in the future, namely to lockdown some of those incentives. So as of right now, we are going on a cruise to the Baltic in August of 2018.

This brought us to our scheduled dinner time with our Aussie friends, unfortunately we couldnt quite remember if we HAD indeed been invited. We thought we would be sitting with them at 1730, we rolled up to the host at the dining room at 1725 asking if the table was set for 4 or 6 plates. The host said “yeah but we dont seat people upstairs after 1830” we kept saying “yeah yeah, but is there 4 or 6 seats?”

Finally the host just walked us upstairs.

Our Aussie friends were just finishing their meal.

We forgot the time change…

It was actually 1825. THATS why the host kept saying “not after six-thirty” and why our steward came back after 15 minutes, not an hour…

We were pretty embarrassed. Our friends understood, they teased us a little, but didnt feel bad about us skipping out on dinner.

So we waited around for our last game of trivia, after a terrible showing of trivia, we went to dinner.

We were seated just the two of us. We ate our food, and went upstairs for some happy hours, chatted with our favourite bartender, played some music trivia, and headed to our cabin to pack.

Back at our room, we packed up, and turned in for our last night in the cabin.