Day 114 - Friday April 21 at sea - day 2

Sea Day 2 photos
position at 7:15am: N32 35.21 latitude W22 12.55 longitude
(1919 miles E of Bermuda, our next port)
temperature: 66F, Cloudy
distance since FLL: 36,822 miles
Today is our last Friday onboard Voyager for this World Cruise. We will disembark next Friday and that will be the end. Sometimes it seemed that this day would never come, but here it is. Less than one week to go. Debbie has not started packing yet. She is afraid that once she starts she will have to finish or else be trapped in the cabin and we will not even be able to go to the bathroom. We heard from Ewald and Suzy yesterday that we need to wean our addicted readers off this journal. We're not sure how that will work. We told them we planned to just stop making daily entries before May 1. They were appalled. But, we may well just stop, exactly like the cruise just stops, so brace yourselves.
We are still enjoying fairly calm seas. Just a slight rolling swell, nothing to throw us around or anything, so we can't complain. Debbie slept in again. Clay took a morning walk up top. It was a fairly warm 65F and very pleasant with maybe a half dozen people up walking early. Since we were running late again, thanks to sleepy-headed Debbie, we had another breakfast in Compass Rose. Clay had 2 eggs over easy with lamb chops and Debbie had a bowl of raspberries with a double order of Swedish pancakes because there were no chocolate croissants again. (Oh, we forgot to thank Ewald doubly yesterday for persuading us to attend the morning Ocean Liners lecture with Bill Miller because there were 2 chocolate croissants sitting in the cookie/pastry case in Coffee Corner and Debbie got a bonus choc. croissant for attending! Thanks again, Ewald!) At breakfast we saw our across-the-hall neighbor and avid journal reader, Bill, come in with his wife. We had not met her so we went over and met Mary Ann, who told us that she felt like we had been her houseguests every morning for the last 3 months or so. She said that their routine so far all this year, had been to turn on the computer first thing in the morning and find out where Voyager was and what was happening onboard in anticipation of their boarding in Rome. We are happy that you have enjoyed it! Clay did not have his camera but Mary Ann and Bill would like to have their pictures posted and we will try to round them up and get one taken and posted. After all, we know where they live.
We tore the cabin apart this morning under pressure from all the people who have started moving packed suitcases out in the hall for IPS and all the clothing racks, hangers, cardboard boxes, small chests of drawers... So, Clay was getting panicky and on Debbie's nerves so everything that has been stuffed under the bed and behind the couch is out now. Debbie is sorting and labeling it as gifts to be packed together or apart. Debbie was hoping to go to beginner's belly dancing class before Jacquie's afternoon lineup but now this mess has to be cleaned up before we leave the cabin for dinner. We'll see.
We have started taking photos of our crew/staff hall of fame. Favorite waitstaff, etc. We will try to post those photos either as they are taken, or all on one day. Don't know yet. For cohesiveness, all on one day would be good but that would mean an orderliness that Clay may not be able pull off. We'll have to see about that, too.
Jamie remembered and delivered today our Suez Canal Transit Certificate this morning! Hurray! Now our trip is complete and we have the documentation to prove it.
We went upstairs for lunch today. There was a curry buffet on the Pool Deck and fish & chips in LaVeranda. So, Debbie went out and filled her plate and then met Clay inside to eat. We liked everything. Clay had pistachio pudding and Debbie had cinnamon cheesecake for desserts. Gotta go get some more organizing and packing done, or else...
So, we did manage to get everything stowed back away so Debbie could go to exercise classes. Not like she hadn't already busted a sweat moving everything in the cabin twice! So, Debbie learned that she will never belly dance and the pressure is off to attend anymore of those classes. She did 2 hours later with Jacquie, Pilates Mat and Strengthen and Stretch Yoga-Style. Anyway, Debbie thinks she is just about finished with packing until it is actually time to go. Clay thinks otherwise. Geez!
Tonight was Formal. We dressed up and went to the last of the SSS cocktail parties for the World Cruise. Capt. Dag joked that nearly everyone in the room was Gold or higher in the new tier scheme. He was afraid that most were Platinum Board Members and he was worried about the suggestions for tier benefits. He was wondering how they were going to give people all their perks on a 7-day cruise. According to the EVP at the Town Hall Meeting, RSSC is emphasizing longer cruises now, so perhaps their is nothing for Capt. Dag to worry about. We ate at Compass Rose after that. Clay had salad and steak and Debbie had soup and steak. Clay had ice cream and Debbie had apple tart.
When we got back to the cabin we had more bed presents tonight. We got a silk tie and a silk scarf. Capt. Dag had on a tie like this the other day that he said was a new corporate log. We looked. We even spread that scarf out and walked around it looking from all angles and we never did see a script R. Anyway, they were very nice in shades of gray and with labels that say "SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER WORID CRUIBE 2006". That is about all that happened today.
We move the clocks back another hour tonight. If we keep on like this, this week will be the longest week ever. RSSC must have really planned ahead, they knew would be dragging our feet about not wanting to leave now and so they are giving us a lot of bonus hours this last week.
Sea Day 2 photos