Wednesday, March 21, 2018- Cruise Day 57; At Sea

Wednesday, March 21, 2018- Cruise Day 57; At Sea

The Atlantic ocean is certainly not as placid as the Pacific was.  We awoke to find 4’ swells and 25mph winds whipping up the sea outside, despite bright sunshine and scattered clouds.  We had our usual breakfast in the dining room and then the next installment of progressive trivia.  The answers were posted by early afternoon, and we are now in a 3 way tie for second place at 51 points behind the leaders Motley Crew, who have 53 points.  Unless Motley Crew has an exceptionally bad last day, they look to be the winners, and we’ll have plenty of company in second place. Ben was upset that one answer was obviously wrong.  They displayed the rainbow apple logo of Apple Computer, but said the answer was MacIntosh, not Apple Computer, even though the rainbow apple logo came out 7 years before the MacIntosh was even introduced.  It first appeared on the Apple II computer.

We hit another Effy presentation and two consecutive drawings with no winnings.  But with all the presentations, we are learning more about gems and jewelry.  

The afternoon trivia was moved to the Wheelhouse lounge, which is way too small for the trivia crowd.  There were many teams standing around the perimeter of the room.  We ended up scoring only 9/20, but the winners only managed 11/20, so we didn’t feel too bad about our performance.  

We then attended a passenger talent show because several people we knew were performing.  We were mostly interested in seeing Ted from Edmonton, Canada play his bag pipes.  He had brought them to commemorate the last battle of the Falklands war, which took place at Tumbledown Mountain.  When we were in the Falklands, he took a cab to Tumbledown Mountain and played the Scottish regimental tune dedicated to the victory at Tumbledown Mountain.  It was one of the best acts.  There were several bad vocalists- like an extra karaoke night, but one passenger played a very good harmonica.  One woman recited a poem dedicated to her new second husband, which was a bit melodramatic but humorous.  

After a quick dinner in the dining room, we saw the early Showtime second performance of Michael Minor, the vocalist and ventriloquist.  We were mostly interested in seeing it because Roger, aka Santa, knew he was going to be picked to be the live dummy for the ventriloquism song “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash.  He performed very convincingly, and the audience really got a kick out of seeing Santa on stage.  

We caught a little bit of a Whitney Houston tribute by the club band, which was actually a good performance.  Then we did the evening Movie Themes Trivia.  We managed to guess all but two movies, but didn’t end up with any bonus points for acting out scenes from some of the movies as we brought our answer sheets up for grading.  We didn’t win, but felt pretty solid about our overall performance on the Movie Themes.

Tomorrow is our last port of call.  We have a UTV and natural pool swim excursion booked for our Aruba port of call.  We have to leave the ship by 7:00AM, so we’ll have to set our alarm clocks.