Saturday, March 16, 2019- At Sea En Route to Fort Lauderdale
Our clocks sprang forward last night so we awoke pretty late. We grabbed a quick bite at the International cafe, which has donuts in the morning, and then headed to our last morning trivia. Our team came up 2 points short of the win. We got stumped on what German word for satellite is also a make of car? Trabant (an East German make), and who invented the ball point pen? Laszlo Biro. It’s hard to imagine how the winning team managed to get those, other than by previously encountering these oddball questions.
We got in one last workout in the fitness center, and then the rest of our luggage packed, keeping out just the clothes we will wear to travel, and our toothbrush bag.
We had lunch in the buffet which was offering SE American fare including BBQ, crawdads and oyster shooters. We were surprised to see how many people were walking around with a plate full of raw oysters. The crayfish reminded us of New Orleans, but these “mud bugs” tasted better than what we had remembered (they tasted like mud in the Big Easy).
Our last afternoon trivia game turned out to be more challenging. We scored 11/20 while the winners managed 15/20. Do you know what healed Jack’s crown after he came tumbling down in the nursery rhyme? Or who did laundry in Beatrix Potter’s children’s stories?
We watched the movie “Green Book” with the on demand video in our room with captions, and can see why it got the Academy Award for best picture.
Our final dinner was New York strip steak and chicken Alfredo and our final activity on this cruise was a music trivia, which we had a 3 way tie for first on. We teamed up with a younger couple who came in halfway through, but sat next to us. The tie breaker was what year did Billie Jean hit #1 in the US, without going over. We guessed 1982, but it was 1983, which one of the other teams hit right on the head.
We’ll have to set an alarm to get up in the morning because we’ll have to have breakfast and disembark by 7:50AM for our Princess airport transfer.
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