Today it’s the final sea day of the crossing, we arrive in New York at 06:30 tomorrow. Last night was extra bumpy, so much so, I was almost bumped out of bed at 03:30. It was slightly better for breakfast, but the weather screen on the cabin tv was still reporting Hurricane Force 12 (70kts)with rough seas.
On the way to breakfast, Jane wanted to check a Spa offer, various massages for $129, and was hoping that she could use CC the $40 voucher we’d been given for this. Alas no, she couldn’t use it, so she wasn’t going pay that much, which was a shame. After a quick breakfast in the Carinthia Lounge we went up to sit in the Pavilion Pool until David Gower’s Q&A at 11:00, unfortunately 11:00 came and went without us noticing and we missed him, so it was back down to the Carinthia for a cup of tea. We saw our first ship since leaving Southampton, we passed a cargo ship travelling south.
We headed back up to the Pavilion Pool for the 12:30 Purple Haze show, and while we waited for the band to start, we had the second leg of our ping pong tournament, this time I prevailed with a majestic 11-8 win.
We had lunch in the buffet before retiring to the Carinthia Lounge to chill before the last of the insights lectures, first was Michael Kushner’s talk on WWII spies and Susan Humphis lecture on the creatures of the open oceans. Both were very good although the timings weren’t ideal for the speakers with Susan Humphris finishing her talk at 17:15. This made me late for Commodore o’clock and when I got there Jane was already at the bar and ordered her margarita I tacked a Doombar onto the order and settled down for a relaxing drink. Jane had been busy at the laundrette washing all the bits that we hadn’t sent for laundering on the offer earlier in the week. We had one more drink before heading back to the stateroom to get ready for dinner. I had another beer and Jane had a Mohito as she fancied a longer drink.
We were saying goodbye to two of our dinner companions tonight as they had completed their back to back crossing. It will be a shame to lose them as they’ve been a pleasure to dine with, and I wish Anne and Jerry a safe journey home – I’m not only be saying this because Jerry figured out who I am in real life. It was a fishy dinner for me, seared tuna as a starter and an assiette of seafood as a main, this was finished of with a chocolate melting pudding. Now I’m not one to complain, but Jane had the same as me for dessert and hers was twice as big. Obviously sweet talking our waiter Antonio is paying off for her.
After dinner it was off to bed for the early call to watch the approach into NYC.