Last night was a bit of a rarity in as much that following a recommendation we went to the show in the theatre, the act was an Australian vocal impressionist called Keith Scott and he was very good indeed. Loads of voices and funny with it.
Prior to that I also got chatting to Dr Dave (Dr. David Plourd) who is one of the Beyond the Podium speakers last night in the Sky Lounge, he is the current naturalist on board. Very interesting chap and I will make a big effort to go and see some of his talks. He has already done one talk on H2O and has a couple more planned, one on Sharks and Rays and the other on Whales and Dolphins.
The clocks went back one hour last night and despite the fact we had another hour to play with I felt totally exhausted by 10:30. Probably the heat over the last 2 days being a major contributor and despite all this I was wide awake at 5:45 this morning.
Can you imagine how it felt to wait over two hours to get my medication!!! It was worth the wait though and being a sea day I had an extra one as well.
At 10:15 we went to our second Consecutive Cruisers meeting in Celebrity Central. The turn around day set up is a little different this time in that we can get back off again once we have embarked for the follow on cruise. Because the next cruise is all Australian ports there is no immigration to deal with once we have got back on for the next leg. We still have to disembark the ship by 9:30 and can’t get back on until 11:30 but do have a little more freedom to come and go after that. There are only half as many back to back cruisers this time and 75 people are back to backers from the previous cruise.
At 12:00 we attended a special luncheon for consecutive cruisers in Blu restaurant, because of the amount of passengers doing back to backs they have had to do two separate lunches and ours today was the second. We were on a table for eight and were joined by the Guest Relations Manager (Monica) and Assistant Guest Relations Manager (Neil) who were excellent company. The food was delicious and we were virtually the last to leave and I was very surprised to see we had been there over 1¾ hours. It was a really nice touch and a great way to spend lunch on a sea day.
By 2:15 we were up on Solstice Deck enjoying a sunny but breezy afternoon. Bliss! We stayed up there until about 4:00 before heading back down to the cabin.
On the way back down we stopped off for a bowl of ice cream and some fruit and spotted these guys. With not many photos taken today I seized my opportunity.
