I am WAY behind on my blogging. TC2 ended this morning and I have 4 days to catch up on. I have had connectivity problems, both on the ship and on shore. I am now sitting in a cafe in Barcelona at 11:30pm using free WiFi.
This was our last full day at sea. As a result we spent a lot of time in the casino. As expected, my winning ways did not continue. I ended the day down around $70 for the cruise. Or $7 per day. Can’t complain.
i realized that I had not posted any photos of our cabin. So I have included one here, for posterity. It is a bit messy, which makes the photo authentic. It is a standard balcony cabin. For whatever reason, Marlene prefers to not use housekeeping, so the steward has been in the cabin just once in these 11 days, to change the sheets. That means no cute towel animals.
We had a lot of professional photos taken on board but we didn’t like any of them very much (sorry, photo guys!) There was one, however, that was amusing enough that we sneaked a photo of the photo. We appear to be levitating in the Azores. While there have been moments in this journey when we felt like we were walking on air, it never actually happened.
The main travel feature of the day was our passage through the Strait of Gibraltar, leaving the Atlantic and entering the Mediterranean. But it happened at night so we saw very little except lights on shore. But as neither of us has ever been to Africa, even seeing the lights was a bit special.
Dinner was formal – a fact that we missed. Marlene, who always dresses elegantly, fit right in. But I looked like I had missed the memo, which was entirely accurate. But others were even more slovenly than I. Small comfort.
The evening show was a 50’s musical revue. Very well done, as all the shows have been. It included a segment featuring the Glee Club – a group of passengers who met daily to practice their songs. They were not as good as the professional staff, of course, but kudos for the effort.
Marlene and I had a small connection to this group. We wandered into their third rehearsal, thinking it was karaoke. Oops.
