Day 15 - At Sea

Another lazy, relaxing day at sea.  We made it to the 10AM lecture - "Soldier of the King, Marshall of Napoleon, Scandinavian Monarch".  This was about jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who rose from meager beginnings, up through the ranks of Napoleon's army, and eventually became the king of Sweden.  Current Swedish royalty is descended from him.  It was an interesting story.

I got to bingo again at noon and came soooo close to winning the jackpot.  No one won the big prize so there's another chance tomorrow.

Then at 3PM I went to the Liar's Club show, where 3 of the ship's celebrities each gave their definition of an obscure word and the audience had to vote, with applause, for the one we thought was telling the truth.  They fooled us on every word, but it was lots of fun listening to the wild stories they made up to explain their definitions of the words.

At 6pm the crew put on the "Krew Kapers" show in the theater.  There are quite a few very talented members of the crew and the show was very enjoyable.

Ray wasn't feeling his best today.  He made it to the lecture this morning, but rested while I went to the other 3 events.  Tonight was formal night, so I got dressed up to attend the cruise show and Ray promised to meet me for dinner in the main restaurant after the show.  I was expecting him to just show up in his regular suit jacket, but he made the effort and put on his tux, formal black shirt, and silver bow tie.  He looked very elegant.  We had a wonderful lobster dinner before retiring to our cabin.  Once again, the only photos I have for today are of food.  :-))


Here is a photo of the lovely way they served my lobster dinner.  Below is a photo of the chocolate guava volcano I indulged in for dessert.




We have an 8 hour tour tomorrow, taking us on a ride overland from our morning port of Hellesylt to Geiranger where the ship will pick us up.  We have to be on the bus at 7:25AM, so we are skipping the show tonight in favor of a good night's sleep and a 5AM alarm.