Monday, December 16, 2019; At Sea, Bali to Singapore Day 2

Monday, December 16, 2019.  At Sea, Bali to Singapore Day 2

It is a good thing to have a couple of sea days before disembarkation so we can adjust ourselves to the idea of heading home.  It has taken a fair bit of discipline not to accumulate items to bring back because our luggage was at maximum weight allowance at the start of our trip.  As we finished our morning rituals, more clothing and items got packed away into the suitcases, filling the larger ones first to maximum weight allowances.  Then we were off to the International Cafe to burn up the last of our coffee card punches and then head off to morning trivia.  Unfortunately, the quiz was a repeat of one from about a month ago, so we had heard the questions before, and it was a matter of testing our short term memories.  Apparently our short term memories are still OK because we won the trivia, and gave away the wine bottle stoppers to some of the ship’s crew who we have come to know over the last few weeks.  

We watched a movie called Bernadette, Where’d You Go.  It starred Cate Blanchett as an architect who goes crazy after her creative genius is stifled, but who cures her crazy by running off to Antarctica to find a new project to pour her genius into.  It was largely filmed in Seattle, and in Antarctica.  It was interesting to see the Antarctica scenes since we have been contemplating whether or not to add it to our bucket lists.  Cate Blanchett seems to have become type cast in these odd rolls since this movie reminded us a lot of her performance in Blue Jasmine, for which she had won an Oscar.  We then got some exercise and lunch, and then packed up our workout clothes and shoes.  

We got our Trivia team together for the last time to play the afternoon trivia.  We were happy that it was not a repeat, and had some good questions.  We ended on a high note, winning notebooks for our team, which we also gave away as gifts to crew members.  

We had our last sit down dinner in the dining room, but skipped out on dessert to do a new Star Wars trivia.  We knew upfront that this was not going to be a good one for us. There were a lot of young kids playing, but we were interested to see what kinds of questions there would be.  We ended up with only 10/25, while a group of kids ran away with the win with a score of 20/25.  

The Princess Theater had a hypnotist on stage with about 20 volunteers, but it was such a lame display of mind manipulation that we left about 10 minutes into the show, as did a lot of the rest of the audience.  I guess if you had a family member on stage, you’d feel obligated to sit through the whole show, which was apparently why he had to have 20 volunteers.  

We finished up our cruise watching Skyscraper, a really dumb action/triller with Dwayne Johnson.  We wouldn’t recommend wasting your time watching this one.  Tomorrow, we disembark in Singapore and will take a disembarkation tour.  This will show us the main sights and then drop us off at our hotel after the check in hours are open.