Med Cruise Day 7 – at sea, back to Barcelona
Kind of a quiet day.
Sunday morning, Andy went running, and I worked on my blog and posting photos. At 10:00, I went to the informational session on disembarkation. Main point - don’t forget to leave out clothes for tomorrow.
At 11:30, we had lunch with the “Mariner’s Club” – people who have sailed two or more times with Holland America. Our lunch companions were a couple from Colorado, and Rachel from Princeton, NJ. Even after the Colorado couple left, we continued our conversation with Rachel about cruising – eventually we got the hint from the wait staff that they wanted us to leave.
We signed up for the “On the Deck - Walk for the Cure” 5K walk for the Susan B Komen foundation for Breast Cancer. Last year, the cruise director hyped the 5K walk all week long, but this year it wasn’t advertised until Saturday’s program. For some reason, all they had left was Medium or 2XL t-shirts. Oh well, I guess I have a new night-shirt.
After that, we had some free time until the walk at 3:00 (how bizarre!), so we brought our books out onto the outside of deck 3 and sat on deck chairs on the shady side of the boat. I find it very interesting that I absolutely hate sitting on a beach for hours, yet sitting on a deck chair watching the ocean is great! The main difference – sand! The breeze was wonderful, and the hum of the ship was lulling – we both fell asleep at some point.
At 3:00 we met with the other participants in the 5K walk at the Ocean Bar – last year there were a good couple of hundred people participating, this year maybe 50. If the cruise director has been doing his job and pushing this activity the whole week, we would have had a much better turnout.
We did the 5K walk (9 laps around deck 3) in about 1 hr 10 minutes – and this year the staff and some people actually waited for me till the very end! Since, of course, we were dead last. The reward – iced butter cookies and lemonade. Yum!
Andy went down to our cabin and brought up my macbook, and we sat out on the deck chairs for another 90 minutes or so. I was able to upload photos while watching the ocean go by. Not bad, not bad at all.
We went to dinner early (6:00), so we could go to the 8:00 show to have time to pack. We were so early, there were no tables to share, so we ate by ourselves. After diner, we still had lots of time, so we went back to the room and packed up about 90% of our stuff. I also started filling out the customer satisfaction survey – lots and lots of feedback, not the least of which was a complaint about the entertainment this year - still flabbergasted about a harmonica guy who doesn’t seem to know any music written after 1960.
We went to watch the last show of the cruise – first half, Mr Harmonica Guy (he wasn’t any better), the second half, Mr R&B Singer (him, I liked). After the show, we went to the piano bar. Piano guy was great – he told us that he would be onboard ship till December, and that one year he was onboard for 11 months straight. Yikes! On the other hand, he said he was able to pay off his house.
By 10:30 or so we went back to the room and finished packing up, and set the bags out in the hallway.
…sigh…reality returns in the morning….
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