A slow morning for us and we skipped breakfast. Our dirty laundry has built up again so we did a couple washes in the morning around wandering the ship looking for those blasted scavenger hunt pictures - we are 3 short grrrr!
We attended the talk by Dave Wright on Cleopatra around noon. He is such an excellent speaker and we learned a lot more about Cleopatra.
We grabbed some lunch and tried to frantically finish the hunt before the 2pm music quiz. We failed but traded 2 with another team and had just 1 left. We were just about to give up and start the quiz when we discovered our next door cabin neighbours had completed the scavenger hunt and the picture we were missing was in the speciality Verandah restaurant. We rushed up there and completed it.
As we will not be dining in there, and we haven’t covered it yet, that can be our ship tour area today. It is on deck 8, at the aft, and the rear of the restaurant leads to the terrace pool.
The other speciality restaurant is part of the Kings Court area, on deck 7, which is roped off at night and the theme changes nightly.
OK, back to the 2pm music quiz which had a twist as it had a movies theme and was worth a total of 60 points - 20 questions of name the song, artist and now the film it is from. We scored 58 and romped home winning ourselves more prize stamps. To be fair, Pam did most of the heavy lifting.
Then we handed in the blasted, completed, scavenger hunt sheet and got 2 more prize stamps for that.
We spent a while playing games then Janet and Ann joined Pam to play Ticket to Ride whilst Mark joined Andrew for the paddle tennis competition. Well the sun deck was blowing a gale so it was difficult to hit it over the net so the competition was abandoned and moved inside for a table tennis competition instead. Mark got knocked out immediately!
We met up again to get ready for dinner, which we had in the main dining restaurant. Pam went hardcore with a prawn and pancetta salad starter and beef consommé soup. Then, a roast turkey dinner, with a large pig in blanket, followed by treacle pudding and custard. Mark cannot remember what he had but it wasn’t any of that!
Pam rushed (or maybe waddled after all that!) off to an insight talk with Diane James - the lecturer. She is also a crime writer of fiction and factual novels. She took lots of questions and then Pam chatted to her one to one about her love of puzzles and jury service. Mark had gone back to the room to relax and read.
We had agreed to meet Diane and Andrew in the Carinthia lounge to play the ticket to ride board game. We think we might be known for this now as a few people have come over to either say they love the game or have enquired about what it is about - one couple even asked if it was a game that we had borrowed from the library hoping to grab it - huh, fat chance. We ended our evening with the late night trivia quiz, for which we only got 14 even though we were a team of six - we were joined by Raju and his wife Nina. After the quiz the 6 of us played the sequence board game as 3 pairs before heading to bed to prepare for Tenerife tomorrow.
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