Day 17 - Last Day At Sea

Waterfall on our way out of Geiranger Fjord

This is our last day on this cruise.  Tomorrow we begin to make our way home.  That will be a long trip since we have a long layover in Dulles before our final leg.  I will post one last entry here once we get home and get some sleep.

This morning we attended Terry Bishop's last lecture,  "Denmark - Friend or Foe", in anticipation of our arrival in Copenhagen tomorrow morning.  This one was about various battles between the British and Denmark to prevent Denmark aligning with either Napoleon or Russia.  Once again, this is history that is not usually taught in American schools.

At noon, I went to play the final Bingo games of the cruise.  Although I didn't win anything today, I was happy when one of the ladies I have been playing alongside throughout the cruise (Mary from Canada) won the final grand prize, which was almost $4,000!  If I couldn't win, the next best thing was to watch a friend win the prize.  So many people come out to play the last game, I always hope the winner is someone who has been playing all along and not a newbee.

The afternoon was spent packing our bags and reading.  Nothing exciting, just a relaxing afternoon.  All four of our bags still came in under 45 lbs. each, so we did good.  Now all we have to do is pray they all make it home with us.

The ship is about an hour behind schedule due to the delay leaving Geiranger yesterday.  I hope that doesn't make us or anyone else late for our flights tomorrow.  We are scheduled to be on one of the first buses to the airport, so it's all a matter of when we get to port and how fast we can clear the port.