Day 11—At Sea
After coffee and breakfast and just relaxing on the deck, I went to the scrapbooking get-together at 9:00. It was fun; I put one page together (it’s ready to put in a picture once I get home) and I’m taking home a few scrapbooking embellishments I can use to create more pages later.
At 10:30, I went to Bingo—the prize was either a Caribbean or Mexican Riviera cruise! Sat with Jackie at bingo and unfortunately, neither of us won. Darn—just can’t seem to get a free cruise at all, so it looks like I’ll have to save enough to go on another cruise, since I am definitely hooked!
With that in mind, I went over to the Future Cruise Desk and put down a $100 deposit on a future cruise. With that deposit, I’ll receive $50 in on board credit on that future cruise and I have 4 years to book it. Once I decide which one I want to go on, I can have my travel agent book the cruise and they will get the credit so I’ll still get all the benefits that American Express gives (and hopefully it will be similar to what I received on this cruise). Since I already know I’ll go on another cruise, I went ahead and put the deposit down, especially since I’ll get half the deposit back on that next cruise.
After putting the deposit down, I went up to the Explorer’s Lounge and logged into Facebook and checked emails, then found a quiet corner to read and watch the ocean for a while.
The English High Tea was this afternoon and since I hadn’t had lunch, I went to that at 3:00. Sharon and Ann (another “new widow”) were there and we sat at a table together. I’m starting to enjoy the late afternoon tiny finger sandwiches, scones, pastries, and hot tea; it’s just enough to tide me over till the late dinner. I’m going to miss afternoon tea when I get back—hmmm, wonder if we can start having an afternoon tea break in the office every day (what do you think Alissa and Tina—we can skip the tiny sandwiches and go straight for the scones and pastries?).
Took a short nap after tea since I planned to attend the Indonesian Show. There were actually three shows. The regular show was a comedian—the regular show is scheduled twice each night: 8:00 for those who have early (5:30) seating for dinner and again at 10:00 pm for those of us at the late (8:00 pm) dinner seating. But tonight, there is a special show at 11:00 pm which is put on by the Indonesian crewmembers.
Dinner once again was excellent. Our table has a habit of lingering over after dinner coffees and have had a cappuccino every night. Tonight our dining room stewards (Gede, our primary waiter, and Made, our assistant waiter) were in the Indonesian Show at 11:00, so I’m sure they wanted us to hurry up and leave, but we didn’t notice. So our wine steward, who has been very friendly, funny, and entertaining, came up to the table and very politely and respectfully said that he has called our limousine and our driver is waiting outside to take us wherever we would like to go—what a polite and cute way to tell us it was time to leave (we were almost the last one in the dining room). Of course, we all laughed, and took the hint and left. The service has been excellent and all the staff very friendly and courteous.
I did attend the comedian show and he (Chris Alpine) was very good and had us all laughing the entire time. The Indonesian Crew Show was very good. Made, our assistant dining room steward was the narrator and he entertained us with facts about Indonesia between introducing the different acts. Our crew performed a few traditional dances and sang a few songs. It was not a professional show by any means, but I think I enjoyed it so much because I had met some of the crew and because they seemed to be having so much fun putting the show on and really seemed to enjoy themselves.
Got back to my room by 12:30 (latest I’ve stay up in a very long time). Never did do laundry—oh well, I have just enough clothes to last the rest of the trip, and tomorrow is another day (and I’ll probably not do laundry then either).
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