This was my first cruise with back-to-back days at sea since the transatlantic crossing (TC1). I enjoy days at sea, so there is no problem with having two of them in a row. It just means that I am going to eat more than usual (a fine beef bourguignon for lunch and mahi mahi for dinner). Carl and I attended two trivia contests where we did okay but didn’t win and a word game called Word Tennis where a category is given and the contestants have to quickly provide instances of that category. For example, if the category is “superheroes” (as in the photo) then the instances could be “Superman”, “Batman”, “Wonder Woman” and so on. The contestant who fails to provide a unique instance in a timely fashion loses.
I did poorly.
Dinner was a hoot. Carl and I dined with Patricia and Bobbi, two women from Fort Lauderdale who were traveling together. We had met them at dinner a few days earlier and had been trivia teammates quite a few times. We decided to dine together on the final night of the cruise.
And I am glad we did.
The conversation was so lively that the woman at the next table jumped in several times because she was so enthralled by our chatter. Among other things Carl and I learned that Bobbi had been a Playboy bunny starting in 1959. She demonstrated the Bunny Bow for us. She was nearly 80 and Carl and she really hit it off. The photo of them holding hands looks like Carl is proposing. He isn’t, but they sure had a connection.
A wonderful way to end the cruise.
Well, it didn’t quite end there as Carl and I went to the casino for one last try at fortune. Carl ended up breaking even for the trip. I ended down $300. A woman playing a slot machine near the roulette table won $1100. I could only admire her good fortune as I had none of my own.