This morning we woke early and had breakfast in the Lido Café. There were very few passenger’s eating breakfast at this hour so it is usually a great time for us to enjoy a very quiet breakfast. After breakfast we went to the Fitness Center for our daily workout. Anne Marie worked out on the Treadmill while Keith worked out on the Elliptical Machine.
Late in the morning, Anne Marie went to the salon for a haircut. Keith went to a lecture given by Nigel West whose topic was titled “The Special Relationship: The White House and Ten Downing Street”. After the presentation, Keith and Anne Marie played in the Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles World Games. Anne Marie and Keith each won Gold Medals in the tournament! At Noon, we also had a special Team Trivia which was part of the World Cruise Games. Our team did not win a medal but had a great time playing in today’s event as we do all of the other games.
For Lunch we went to the Main Dining Room and today was the Grand Gala Buffet. This buffet has so many outstanding foods from various appetizers, entrees, deserts, breads and salads, which are all wonderfully presented. There are so many items to choose from. We created our own salad, which we really enjoyed. We have really been good about having nice large salads for lunch each day knowing that we are on this cruise ship for such a long time.
In the afternoon Anne Marie sat out by the pool. At the last minute Keith decided to enter the Crystal Family Triathlon. Each team was composed of one passenger and one crewmember. Keith was matched up with Adi Schutzeneder the Head Sommelier. In the first event each passenger had to cycle for two miles and each crewmember has to cycle for two miles as well. In the second event each passenger had to power walk around the Promenade Deck and then touch the hand of the crewmember who had to power walk around the Promenade Deck. Then the crewmember had to touch the hand of the passenger who had to do a second power walk lap around the Promenade Deck, who, in turn, had to touch the hand for the crewmember who had to complete their second power walk lap around the Promenade Deck. The final event involved each crewmember swimming eight laps (eight lengths) of the swimming pool. This was made more challenging by the fact that the ship is moving which creates lots of waves in the pool. Each of these three events were timed and the scores of each team were totaled. In the end, the team of Keith and Adi finished in second place only twenty-six seconds behind the first place team. So, Keith and Adi finished with a silver medal in this event, which was the final event of the games.
This evening we attended the medals and closing ceremony for these games where Anne Marie and Keith were each awarded her Gold Medasl for table tennis and Keith was awarded his Silver medal for the Triathlon. In total, we won three gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals. More importantly, we had lots of fun no matter how we did in the games and we met many passengers who we had not met before and also got to know others that we had met during the cruise even more. And, it made the days at sea go by so quickly. It also gave us an opportunity to talk with Dorothy Hamill and Tracy Evans. They were very nice and very personable and only had nice words to say to us.
This evening we enjoyed a very nice dinner in the main dining room.
After dinner, we attended two wonderful shows. The first show was presented by our Cruise Director, Gary Hunter, who si also a Ventriloquist and we really enjoyed his show. After this show, we saw another show presented in a different venue, which was given by comedian Jon Courtenay. We enjoyed this show as well
Tomorrow morning we will arrive in Walvis Bay, Namibia the first of several ports of call that we will visit in Africa.
Keith & Anne Marie
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