A quiet day.

Monday 28^th Jan 2013. Sea day.

What should have been our final sea day is now our second to last sea day. The majority of passengers are very happy about this development. Maureen has been going to morning trivia and she commented she could have done with some help so we decided to toughen up and get up early to give her a hand. It pays off and we win P&O drink bottles today. Steve will be annoyed with us, he really wanted one of those! There are 2 little kids who turn up to trivia pretty much every time, and Trevor wanted to ask them to join our team this morning but we ended up not asking them. Trevor managed to get 2 more bottles and we spent all day keeping an eye out for them and didn’t see them again till afternoon trivia where we gave them the bottles. They were a bit surprised but managed to thank us. Sweet little kids and good on them for having a go. 

We’re still travelling relatively slowly, around 10 knots and our course is towards the Gold Coast. This will bring us in behind the low pressure system and although there’s a lot of movement, it would have been worse had we followed the plan originally charted. Captain Ravero has the safety of all board absolutely  foremost in his decisions, no matter what the repercussions for P&O in the long run. What about all the passengers booked to leave Sydney tomorrow afternoon?? Not his problem, although I’m sure there are systems in place on shore to deal with it. Our cruise last June was delayed in departing Sydney due to the late return of the Pearl but at least turnaround was on the same day. 

Quiet day today. I liberated a deck chair from it’s bindings once it became apparent that the crew were not going to set them out on deck 7 in the ‘fairly quiet’ zone. Once one passenger started, others, including me, followed. So I got some book reading in before lunch. Top deck was too glary and noisy, inside was far too cold, deck 7 was the place to read. The weather today has been very overcast but around 26 or 27 degrees, so although not tropical, it’s been pleasant. 

Afternoon trivia saw the whole team back together and some of the questions were hard, so with a score of 16, the P&O beach bags looked beyond our reach. Imagine our total surprise to find that 16 was actually enough to take out the prize. Somehow we ended up with one bag too many, so we gave one to Monique and Rob, a nice couple we met early in the cruise who also turn up every day to trivia. They’ll have to fight over it………. On the upside, I think we now have the complete P&O prize collection! LOL.

Winners are grinners

Our waitress, Cecelia has been waiting for us at the door of the restaurant every night since we booked ourselves at her table. She’s such good fun and is giving us the star treatment. The crew show is on tonight and she keeps telling us she’s going to be biting the head off a live chicken! Now we’ve just got to stay awake till it starts at 10.45!!!