Fall Foliage Cruise: At Sea

October 16

Gave up on getting the blog to load at 1 am (including the time change) and went to bed. Awoke a little after 9:15 and watched the last morning show as I folded some more clothes.

The Captain and some of the other officers had a Q&A session at 10:30. Sat with Carolyn and Gary.

Back for some more packing before heading to the Windjammer for lunch (the rice and the oatmeal raisin cookies were the best part). Planned to visit the area where the flow rider and climbing wall were (just to say I had seen them) but it was very windy and it started to rain so I gave up. I did go to the gym to see the penguins on the deck.

Headed for 2:00 trivia after visiting the shops one last time. I was finally able to get the blog and all the pictures up five minutes before trivia started. Irene, her husband Arthur, and I played. Only had 8 right and the winner had 12.

Q1. The Skoda car company originated in which country?
Q2. What is the name for a group of baboons?
Q3. On a dartboard what number follows 5, 20, 1, 18?
Q4. How many hearts does an octopus have?

After trivia I went to finish up my packing then changed for dinner and off to 4:00 trivia. It was a visual trivia that had a lot of repeats of the TV shows from the other day. We tied for first place with two other teams. Barbara won the the third tie-breaker for us knowing the depth of the ice on the ice-skating rink (which is 1.5 inches). We won Royal Caribbean ball caps.

The 4:45 General Trivia was hard and we only had 9 out of 15. The winning team had 10.5 so we did not do too badly.
Q1. What is the capital of Macedonia?
Q2. What dance craze started in the 70s but became really popular in the 80s by Crazy Legs?
Q3. In what movie did Kevin McAllister get into difficulties in New York City?

We had a picture taken with our favorite trivia guy, Godfrey, before we had to say good-bye to Maureen and John.

We had booked 5:30 dinner and sat in the same area as last night and had Genevie as our server. She made sure we were happy after our dissatisfaction of last night. We reassured her that her service had been excellent, it was the food that we had issues with. Tonight it was two orders of turkey, two sliders, and Gary had chicken. Most of us had key lime pie but Tommy had frozen strawberry souffle. Some of us also had ice cream.

A walk through the royal promenade to spend the last of our onboard money and then Barbara, Tommy and I went to "Name That Tune - Big Band Edition. I knew maybe two but Barbara and Tommy knew more. We had to leave before it was over to be sure to get seats for the farewell show.

Carolyn and Gary met us at eight for the show. It featured the physical comedy of Max Winfrey (he was on "America's Got Talent" and threw knives at Nick Cannon). The ship orchestra played - with a very long solo by the drummer, Dru (Cruise Director) told some silly stories about things people have said on cruises, and for the finale the singers, dancers, skaters, and members of the crew came on stage.

I went up with Barbara and Tommy so they could weigh their bags and got to see their balcony. They have the farthest forward balcony on deck 9 and have a great view of the port side wing of the bridge.

Bags had to be out by 10 and mine made it with 3 minute to spare.

An hour and 45 minutes later I have not been able to upload any pictures so if by some miracle the blog posts the pictures will have to wait until I get home. Actually I opened my cabin door and got the blog posted quickly just can't get the pictures

Trivia answers....

2:00 trivia
Q1. Czechoslovakia
Q2. Troop
Q3. 4
Q4. 3. I had this question on a past trivia but could not remember the answer

4:45 trivia
Q1. Skopie
Q2. breakdancing
Q3. Home Alone 2