The clocks went back again (only 3 hours ahead of UK now) and Mark was on the balcony by 7:30. It fills like another warm day.
We spent the rest of the morning having breakfast and getting our step count in as we wandered the ship looking at information boards to complete these 20 history questions. There is always one annoying one hiding somewhere. Pam also did the port talk on Port Elizabeth.
Later Pam went off, with Janet, to another lecture with Kate Schroeder on cold cases and how the skeleton of a body can give you so many clues to a person life. Kate Schroeder says she loves giving a skeleton a voice by telling their story. You can tell their, sex, ethnicity, height, build, origins. She also spoke about how the skeletons are found( in what position) as she has dealt with mass graves (in Ukraine) as well as single graves (from Roman times). So fascinating.
Mark met them both afterwards for lunch in the Britannia restaurant. Pam had a 3 course lunch including a ginormous Turkey escalope with spaghetti.
We then did a quiz in the Carinthia lounge with Diane and Andrew. We held our own but no win.
They went off to bingo and we had our scavenger hunt, history board quiz marked. Somehow, we had got one wrong- no idea how we got the wrong date but that meant no winners stamp for us. Very annoyed at ourselves for all the time it in but no reward - well we got the exercise and that is definitely needed on here.
Pam went off to the planetarium, with Janet, to see the show Mark saw a couple a couple of days ago. She then rejoined Mark in the cabin where we relaxed reading or watching TV. Still no sign of sea life from our balcony and, unlike Arcadia, no announcements yet when the bridge spot any.
We tried to ring our girls but the reception was horrific and the calls got ended quickly - it is obviously a ship and/or ship location issue.
Pre dinner drinks, with crisps, tonight was in the Golden Lion pub. The group “Habit to” were playing again and the bass guitarist helped more and took some of the pressure of the lead, female rocker. Really like this group. Their set included Baker Street but with Sax replaced by electric guitar and was surprisingly good.
The Golden Lion can be our ship tour area today as we have covered from the lobby to the forward areas of the ship on both decks 2 & 3.
Opposite the Golden Lion pub is the photoshop whicich in this day and age doesn't get much use but on this cruise the photographers are back taking photos around the ship
We decided on the King’s Court buffet dinner tonight. We both had the breaded monkfish with potato dauphinois and a selection of vegetables. Mark also had leek soup whilst Pam had carrot cake. This allowed us to see the 2nd part of the 1st theatre show tonight. They do things a bit different on here. We are used to guest entertainment acts being given 2 shows - i.e. they perform their first 45 set a couple of times on one day and then, a few days later, they will be back to perform a completely different set a few times. On here, the first set is the same but then they come back a few days later and share the show with another act so they perform 1.5 shows over the cruise. Tonight shared act was the Irish comedian William Caulfield, followed by Kiwi singer Russell Harrison. People had said the singer was good (we missed him before) and was like the magnificent Ben Makesi from Arcadia. Well, we purposely missed the comedian and saw the singer but he was not that great and was only similar to Ben in being a tall, well built New Zealander. However, he was funny. He sang more soul songs than Ben, who was more operatic.
We retired up to the Carinthia lounge to listen to the duo Ocean Drive, with drinks and crisps naturally, and afterwards did the 10pm late night quiz with Diane and Andrew. Like most ships, there is usually a team that wins most of the generally knowledge quizzes and we tied with them and beat the usual winners on a tie breaker. None of us really drink so we donated the winning wine to the couple who marked our paper. In retrospect, that may have looked suspiciously like cheating but we know we won fair and square.
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