Wednesday, April 3, 2019. At Sea

Wednesday, April 3, 2019.  At Sea

After breakfast we were going to attend the enrichment lecture on oceanography and climate change, but left early to join our trivia team at morning trivia.  We have been disappointed that the enrichment lectures have not been rebroadcast on the on demand video system as they have on other cruises.  That will deserve a mention in our after cruise evaluation form.  

Since we began the homeward leg of this trip, the trivia crowd has grown considerably so it is hard to find a place to sit unless you show up at least 15 minutes before.  We thought we had done OK, but the winning team had a perfect score.  We didn’t know what a taipan is, and we didn’t know what country Timbuktu is in.  We also didn’t know what a billabong is.

We did have a relaxed lunch before our 5th progressive trivia quiz.  We did pretty good scoring 12/13 only missing what disease whose Latin name translates to bad air.  We had incorrectly guessed pneumonia.  It seems to be taking the cruise director’s staff a long time to post updated scores on the progressive trivia, we don’t know if we are gaining on the lead or not.  

They did have a new trivia called Car Logos, which we won with a perfect score of 24/24.  We actually tied with another team, but they had nine players, and should have been disqualified.  We are building up an inventory of Princess wine bottle stoppers and Ruby Princess silicone coasters.  

We took the afternoon off from trivia, choosing instead to get started on another movie and getting a workout in instead of trying to win more coasters or wine bottle stoppers.

After dinner, we watched the Princess Theater entertainer Bryan Chatham, who was a Semi-Finalist on America’s got Talent.  He is musician, singer and dancer who put on a high energy show featuring music of Stevie Wonder and other artists from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.  

We finished our evening with an 80’s music trivia, scoring 33/40, but there was a winning team with a perfect score of 40/40.  We didn’t do so well with the heavy metal bands that were popular in the late 80’s.

Our clocks move forward another hour tonight.