DAY 10

This is day six at sea.  Tomorrow we arrive in Ponta Delgada, the Azores.  I must say the six days have just flown by and it’s hard to believe we’ve been on the ship for 10 days already.

Again the weather is beautiful with blue skies, sapphire sea, sunshine and calm seas.  It is getting a little cooler at night now.

An update on this our Progressive Trivia this morning…….13 out of 20.  We just don’t seem to be able to improve on that figure. We had a couple of questions where we had the right answer then after deliberation changed it…..and it ended up to be wrong and the first choice was correct.  We all hate that when that happens.  So our team has decided that we’ll go with our first choice from now on.  We’ll do anything to improve our placing…lol.  It was all on this morning because one of the questions was ‘what is the British equivalent of the FBI”?  The answer the majority had was ’MI5’, however a couple of teams were up in arms as they said the answer should be ‘Special Services’ so quiz master Chris has accepted their protest and will research and give us his finding the day after tomorrow. No Trivia tomorrow as it’s a port day.

This afternoon they’re running a ‘win a 7 day cruise’ Bingo. I guess everyone will be there, including us.  But as they say “you’ve got to be in it to win it” J We’re all trying to guess which ship it will be on, some are saying Oasis of the Seas in the Caribbean.  I could handle that.. J

Just returned to the cabin after the Bingo…….I didn’t win the cruise but the couple sitting next to me did.  They are from Adelaide in South Australia and this was the first time they had played Bingo so as you can imagine there were very excited. They’ve won a 7 night Caribbean cruise on any ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet.

We had an invitation to the introduction to the Ice show before dinner this evening.  Quite amazing to see the skaters flying around an ice rink on a ship. There are 8 dancers altogether and each of them had represented their state or country at ice skating. They were very multi-national coming from Russia, France x2, Canada x2, Japan, Hungary and Czech Republic.  We look forward to the full show in a couple of days’ time.

Thank you to those who have left comments and my apologies for not responding.  We have one hour of free internet which we have used up so we are now paying for our internet connection.  Please do keep the comments and questions coming I’m reading them all and love to hear from you.  Those who are booked on Voyager the Internet packages are as follows: These prices are all in US dollars: If you wish to just pay by the minute it is 65c per minute. Or you can purchase the following packages:

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I missed the Captains quote of the day today.  I happened to be walking through the Casino and stopped and put in my change of US$2.50 into a slot machine and won US$36.75. The machine was making such a noise I couldn’t hear what he had to say. He’s such a friendly Captain and very informative on his midday reports.

More from me tomorrow from Ponta Delgada in the Azores. J