Thursday, November 9, 2017; At Sea

Thursday, November 9, 2017; At Sea

It’s hard to believe it’s our last day on this cruise. We began packing our suitcases and then had breakfast and headed to our last morning trivia.  We had mimosa’s using one of Rick and Joanne’s bottles. We missed winning by several points.  The winning team missed only 1 question, and they had apparently been on the ship 40 days in sequential cruises.  The most obscure question was who invented the television.  FYI, it was John Lorie Baird.  They also had the egg drop contest. There were 28 entries, so they did 14 heats of two simultaneous drops.  There were just a few broken eggs, so getting close to the target and being picked for an original design were the keys to winning.  Our entry was in the top 3 for closeness to the target center, but not the winner.  

Then after lunch, they had the scrap heap boat race.  There was one amazing entry that was 5’ long shaped like a cruise ship and decorated with all sorts of Princess Logos and it even had deck chairs.  It could have won both the speed and design competitions, but winners were limited to only one category, so the crowd voted a little girl’s entry which was made out of balloon animal balloons as the most original design.  Boats had to be towed in a lap around the pool with six loose Coca-Cola cans in their holds.  Ben’s boat got off to a good fast start, but lost one can on the last turn, disqualifying it.  

We did make a good showing at the 4:30PM general trivia, pulling out a win after answering the tie-breaker of “How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?”.  The other two teams had guessed 12 and 14, while our guess was 152.  The actual number was 134, so we picked up another round of magnetic clips.  

The final dinner was NY strip steak for Ben and Teriyaki chicken for Janet, followed by baked Alaska.  We then caught the last Princess Theatre Variety Show, a trumpet player and vocalist (Chuck Curry) who was very talented and put on an entertaining show.  

We then met for a Where is Bigfoot trivia, where pictures were taken around the ship of someone in a Bigfoot suit, and you had to identify the locations.  We missed enough to knock us out of contention because we hadn’t been in the retail stores or spa.  

Our final trivia was an ABBA name that song trivia at 9:00PM.  We also didn’t end up winning.  We were 2 points behind the winning team which had missed only one out of 20 questions.  That concluded our trivia for this cruise, and it was a bitter-sweet moment, saying goodbye to Judy, Rick and Jo-Anna, and exchanging contact information.  If we ever do an RV tour of eastern Canada, we’ll have to visit Rick and Jo-Anna.  Judy lives in Victoria, BC, so we may have to come up with an excuse next summer to visit, or more likely, figure out a future cruise together. Over the course of the 15 day cruise, we won 18 trivia quizzes, and were kept occupied and stimulated during our 8 days at sea caused by all our missed ports of call.  

We got most of our stuff packed into our suitcases, and will walk off the ship after breakfast tomorrow to resume our land explorations of Yokohama and Tokyo.