Janet's diary again

Saturday 6th September 2014

We woke really late this morning (9:30) partly due to the clocks being forwarded an hour during the night.  After a quick breakfast in the Orangery, we had a walk round the decks observing all the sun worshippers stretched out in rows, then headed to the daily shuffleboard competition where we were both eliminated in the first round again.

It was a beautiful day and since we've been travelling virtually due east, we've had some sun on the balcony all day, but also enough shade for me to find a corner in which to cower.

Art class was good this afternoon.  We painted a dachshund.  Yup.  A dachshund.  However, most of our results were definitely not candidates for Crufts. Recognisable as dogs, but not pure-breds!

Tonight was a formal evening.  Posh frocks for the girls and dinner jackets for the boys.  The choice of entertainment was Tom O'Connor in the theatre, a musical quiz (couldn't go to that as Julie wasn't with us to answer all the questions), the Syndicate quiz (too intense), ballroom dancing in the show lounge (we don't dance), or a film - 'Chef'.  I quite fancied going to the cinema, but since we'd never heard of the film and weren't able to easily check it out on Rotten Tomatoes, we decided not to risk it.

So having looked at the options it appeared that it might have to be Tom O'Connor again.  I did remember to Google 'how old is Tom O'Connor' when I uploaded yesterday's diary, and was surprised to see he's not yet 75 - he looks older.  We headed to the theatre after dinner, but it was pretty crowded so we opted instead for a drink in the Crow's Nest bar.


Sunday 7th September

Another sea day, so our day's activities were pretty similar to the last couple of days.  Both knocked out of the shuffleboard competition in the first round again - my female opposition was a particularly competitive woman, but I just giggled my way through the game, delighting when at one point I managed to smash her puck out of the scoring zone.  I apologised profusely of course, telling her that I had no control whatsoever of where I was shuffling.

 The promenade deck is very busy during the day, so I decided to try a late afternoon walk today. Managed six laps in just over half an hour, with one pause to watch some dolphins.

There was a deck party on the back of the ship after dinner, with Caravan providing the music - mainly old pop music.  We  stayed until they finished at midnight.

Malta tomorrow...

Janet