Wednesday, November 8, 2017; At Sea

Wednesday, November 8, 2017; At Sea

Not much to get up for this morning since for some reason, there were no morning trivia quizzes scheduled, even though this was an At Sea Day.  Last night was the smoothest ride of the whole cruise.  No more white caps or 15’ seas.  

Tonight is the last Formal night, so we should expect to find Lobster on the menu tonight.  The Princess Patter did not list either the egg drop contest or scrap heap regatta contest, so those will have to be crammed together tomorrow.  We have run into a few other passengers who will be participating, including the couple from Finland.  

We attended a Carnival Mask class, which was just like the Halloween mask class, but with colored feathers and sequins, instead of black petals and spiders.  Then we watched some of a Spanish Flamenco class.  

We had lunch and retired to our stateroom to finish Spiderman Homecoming (a terrible movie), and nearly missed our afternoon trivia at 4:15PM.  We realized we were missing it at 4:25PM, and hurried to find our usual team filled with Judy, Rick, Joanne, Paul from Houston, Joseph and his grandmother from Palo Alto.  We joined a couple from Atlanta and their friends in time for the last 4 questions, but neither our original team or the team we joined late ended up winning.  

We dressed up for our last Formal night and enjoyed Lobster with double portions, and a Chocolate Journey dessert.  Then we met up with our regular Trivia partners for 7:00PM Name that Song trivia.  We missed winning that one by 2 points.  We went to the 8:00PM Princess production “Bravo” show, featuring a combined string and band orchestra, opera singer and all the singers and dancers doing a medley of famous opera, broadway, and even James Bond music.  It was standing room only, but a good show.  It was certainly better than their last show because the lead male singer seems to have regained his voice and everyone just seemed better in sync.  

Our last trivia for the day was a Festivals trivia where you had to guess the country and name of various festivals based on some pictures.  There were a lot of bizarre festivals, including one where people in Spain run down the village street leaping over hurdles of babies, one in Norway where men carry their wives on an obstacle course on their backs, and one where people hurtle themselves down a steep grassy slope in the UK chasing after a cheese wheel.  There was also a question “Who is the most famous dancer in Rio’s Carnival” and the answer was an obscure “Passista”. We lost that one pretty bad.  The group that won had missed only one questions, and had probably seen these questions before on a prior cruise.  Everyone else had missed 5 or more questions.  We had opened one of our champagne bottles to share with our team as we played this game. 

We watched some Karaoke and then called it quits for the night.  Tomorrow is our last at sea day, and last full day of the cruise.  The Egg Drop contest, and Scrap Heap Boat Float challenge are tomorrow.  We may recruit Rick, who swims every day, and is a strong swimmer, to pull our boat through the water, and may see if we can find a volunteer to join our Egg Drop contest team so that Janet can video tape our attempt.