October 11th

We almost missed breakfast, we were sleeping so soundly. There was a very thick fog last evening and we could hear the ship blowing the fog horn every  minute. But the sea was calm and we slept so very soundly.

We woke at 8:15 and they stop serving breakfast in the dining room at 9:00 so we had to hurry. But we did make it. The special this morning was eggs Benedict and that is what Ken ordered. I asked for berries if they had any and sliced banana if they did not have berries. I was so pleasantly surprised when sliced strawberries arrived. Ken had the cinnamon apple slices. I also had oatmeal with cinnamon and raisins. Coffee and an order of whole wheat toast finished breakfast nicely. We ended up at a table with a young man named Chris, and a lady from Langley named Ann. We have sat with someone from Langley every time we have been in a dining room.

Captain Tuvo came by and said hello again. This time I was able to get a picture. He has to be the most social captain we have ever sailed with. When he sign off he says Bye Bye and we notice that the staff in the dining room also says Bye Bye when you are leaving.

When we left the dining room we decided to go to the international café and get our coffee card. There was a line up. Everyone enjoying this great feature of the ship.

Next we checked out the art gallery. They have some amazing Tarkay’s and some Goddards that are new to us as well as a Krasnyansky that we had not seen before.

We did not win the wake show draw so we entered again for the next draw. That entry spot is on deck five as well.

Our immigration time is nine o’clock and our tour check in time is 10:40 so there is not a conflict. That is a good thing.

I went to the interview of Captain Tuvo and it was fascinating. He is so personable and was so at ease. I loved every minute of it.

At the end of the interview Ken met me and we picked up a quiche and a dessert and took it back to our cabin

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There was such a crowd in the international café that finding a seat was impossible. There had been a chocolate demo before the captain’s interview and there was going to be a martini demonstration happening after, which was the reason for the crowds.

Lunch was great and then after lunch we decided to check out the pictures that were taken last night. The pictures were quite good.

Next came the Art Auction. It was a lot of fun. The auctioneer Sean Paitaki was amazing. I don't know how they can talk non stop at that speed for so long.

 It is a good that we have a lot of wall space in our new house because it appears as if we will have 2 new pieces of art to hang. We won Winding River and Village Road by Alex Perez. We considered framing them ourselves but they gave us such a good price that we could not say no and so they are framing them and we will have them to hang in our new home in time for Christmas.

They have 2 Happy Hours each day one is from 3 to 4 and one is 10 till 11. The drink of the day was the Captains Bounty. It is made from 4 different flavors of rum. We picked up 2 and enjoyed them as we waited for time to go to dinner.

Dinner was great as usual. Ken enjoyed his surf and turf. During dinner I kept watching for Carol’s cousin and  even though it did not seem very probable we found them. They are in the same dining room. We exchanged information and we made a date to have lunch together on Monday. This is a big ship but perhaps it is not too big after all.

We went to the draw in the photo department and we did not win.

We made the arrangements for the shipping of our new art works and then we went to the international café to have a coffee with our brandy.

Tomorrow we are in Long Beach from 7 am until 11 pm, a nice long day.