Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, August 06 2008 @ 12:06 PM CST
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Ship's library |
11:00 – Skin Care Ingredients: Separating Hype from Reality (Canyon Ranch Day Spa)
11:00 – Amber Lecture (Jewelry Shop)
11:00 – Darts Competition (Golden Lion Pub)
11:00 – Silly Bowling (Poolside)
11:15 – Book Signing (Library)
11:15 – Salsa Dance Class (Ballroom)
11:30 – Queen Elizabeth 2 from 1969 to 2008 Lecture (Planetarium)
11:45 – Quiz Time (Golden Lion Pub)
Noon – Eight Bells to mark the exact time of midday (Grand Lobby)
12:15 – Jazz Pub Lunch (Golden Lion Pub)
12:15 – Interest Corner: Pet Lovers (Champagne Bar)
12:15 – Masonic Brethren Gathering (Boardroom)
12:30 – Tango Dance Class (Ballroom)
1:00 – Planetarium Film (Planetarium)
2:00 – $1,150 Snowball Jacket Bingo (Ballroom)
2:00 – Duplicate Bridge Session (Atlantic Room)
2:00 – Power Pump Fitness Class (Fitness Center)
2:00 – Watercolour Class (Chelsea Room)
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The loooong hallway |
We decided to check out the buffet area for the “all night snacks” and ended up having a few little things. Our dining mates told us that lots of people would be there and there were. Most of the nights we went back to our stateroom after dinner (around 10:30 PM) and promptly fell asleep so we missed out on the nighttime ship activities until tonight.
May 21 (Wednesday, Day 25, At Sea) –
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Worst seas of the trip |
We had breakfast in the main dining room and then went to the internet center on the third deck in the very front of the ship. The ship was in four to seven foot swells which was the roughest water we had experienced yet. (Four to seven foot swells aren’t very rough.) Then we went up to the 12th deck to the Commodore Club which is also at the very front of the ship. Then Snookums proclaimed she needed to go back to the stateroom since she was feeling seasick. She took a Dramamine and was basically sleepy the rest of the day.
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Rigged for cool weather |
The seas calmed down around 2 PM which meant that Filbert could do his last sea watching of the cruise. It was colder so he put on more layers. He saw one more dolphin (not a pod of dolphins, but a single dolphin) and that was it. Snookums continued to sleep and read.
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Flowers in the atrium |
We had an interesting discussion at dinner about American and British terms. Snookums commented that the television kept saying “Be sure to retard your clock one hour tonight” and she hadn’t heard “retard” for “turn back” but figured it was just British. Well, the British hadn’t heard that term either and assumed it was American. None of us could figure out where the term came from and realized that basically every passenger on board the ship figured it was the “other kind” of English!
We got back to the room around 10 PM and decided we had better pack. It was actually easier packing from this cruise compared to the Royal Caribbean one since our stateroom was much smaller and we didn’t have room to spread our stuff around. We packed up and put our bags outside our room by 11:30 PM, turned our clock back for the last time and went to sleep.
We were going to tip our stewardess (Maureen from Pretoria, South Africa) extra except that the last two nights she never left us ice and didn’t take away dirty room service dishes. If she would have done her job the whole trip, she would have received a nice little bonus. Instead, she got the normal tip.
May 22 (Thursday, Day 26, Disembarkation at Brooklyn Port) –
We were supposed to disembark by deck number and since we were peons on the lowest deck, we were scheduled to be called last at 10:45 AM. We were enjoying our wait in the buffet dining area with a great view of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan and were having discussions with British guests regarding the U. S. election. The British seem to know as much about U.S. politics as most Americans do. Around 9:30 AM there was an announcement that any remaining U.S. citizens could leave so we left, immediately found our luggage and had no line at Immigration and Customs.
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Lady Liberty |
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Farewell to QM |
We got in line for a cab and although there were only four groups of people in front of us, it took about 45 minutes for us to get a cab. (There was an announcement that played over and over saying that the cab line was on the right and on weekday mornings it might take awhile – and it did!) We spent five hours at La Guardia waiting for our planned AirTran Airways flight and ultimately arrived at our house at 11 PM (as planned) after flying via Atlanta with a 3-hour layover. It was a long day but we came back to an intact house so that was good!
Things to note about Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas:
Things to note about Cunard’s Queen Mary 2:
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Sunset and good sailing |
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