Wednesday - A real lay back day today and lots of catching up with this blog after breakfast. Before we knew it, it was time for canasta again and yours truly won the individual score – Colin's comment was that I must have had good partners – not very sporting!!!
Meat pies and chips were on at Horizons for lunch, and although they looked gigantic, they were half full of air – the other half with very tasty steak and kidney - darn, should have taken a photo!!! Did a bit of reading outside, but the weather started to turn for the worst so it was back to the cabin and more blogging!!
The Ultimate Deck Party and "loud-shirt night boys" outside on Deck 12 was scheduled for tonight but due to inclement weather, it was moved to the Vista Lounge – not quite the same atmosphere at all!!!! We stayed for a while and had a bit of a bop to the familiar sounds of Derringer, then off we trotted!!
Thursday - About 300 passengers will be leaving the ship on Saturday, so there are lots of farewells taking place and it's all a bit sad….. but of course first things first as we prepare to set foot on Aussie soil again – Customs!!! Fortunately they came on board in Rabaul so there's plenty of time to process everyone and how nice it was to stroll through Australian Customs this morning in Vista Lounge - they did it well. We had plenty of time for canasta….. then lunch! Weather was a bit ordinary today, started out nice but cloudy and rainy this afternoon and we've got a good swell happening!!! Later on went to watch our table mates, Mike & Annie, and their 'team' win today's Trivia, as well as the Progressive Trivia – how lucky for them that we opted to remove ourselves from the team!!!!!
Formal night again and I was just in the right spot to have a photo with Captain Mario, just lucky I guess!!! In his farewell speech he gave all the statistics of the food consumed – including hundreds of tons of meat, fish, eggs, flour etc. etc. – then when he told us that the passengers had consumed 37,000 cans of beer!!!....... that brought the house down - lots of laughs!!! Speaking of bringing things down – the balloon drop was at 10.45pm, bit late for us!!!
Friday – Started packing a case today but as we haven't bought a great deal, it hopefully isn't going to be too much of a hassle. But a reward was needed and also to cheer us up, we lunched at the Terrace Grill for – HAMBURGERS & CHIPS!!!! – salad and even beetroot…. it was scrumptious!!! The swell has subsided and it was a lovely sunny day sitting outside knowing all full well that after Brisbane, we probably won't venture out too much more on this cruise.
Our last farewells at dinner with Carol and Bruce who leave the ship tomorrow and it won't be the same without them. Bruce is a photo fanatic and gave us some beautiful pics. taken along the way – thank you so much Bruce – he's almost convinced me to buy a really good camera….. All the waiters gave us all a wonderful rendition of a collection of Aussie songs and it was so good to listen to, with all the wonderful accents. Showtime tonight was just brilliant with the cast of singers and dancers putting on their "British Invasion" – think it's one of the best shows ever!!!
PHOTOS: Colin's 'big shirt' – glass empty, he was very happy;
Captain Mario & 'Me' – I was happy; Before the balloon drop; The waiters singing to our wonderful Aussie tunes.
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