This will be a wrap. There really isn’t enough on sea days to write about (except food). So tomorrow, Sunday, will be our last day. I would normally post Sunday’s blog early Monday morning. But Monday will be hectic. We have to be out of our stateroom by 8:00 and will be off the ship by 9:00. Then we have a car to the airport for our afternoon flight back to PHX. So, no blog post for Sunday.

Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting. We read and appreciate each and every one. (My sister Sue and Elaine’s sister Cindy will have to start emailing each other directly to keep in touch with each other.)

Saturday was another perfect weather day with smooth seas. Sunday promises to be the same.

Saturday morning sunrise and Saturday night moonscapes. The big moon picture didn’t turn out well but you can the star in the picture to the moon’s upper right.

Dinner was in Manfredi’s with a nice bottle of French wine. Elaine had Fritto Misto to start and a Tomahawk Pork Chop. I had the delicious Pasta Fagioli followed by Beef Tenderloin. Desserts were good too.

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Sunday morning as I post. Another great sunrise. See everyone in June when we explore the Great Lakes on Viking Polaris. Ciao!

Weather good.
Seas calm.
Food and drink as usual.

Absolutely nothing to report today. Never took a picture. Maybe I’ll be inspired tomorrow.

Actually, there is one thing to report. We have jointly decided that we will not go to Ireland this fall as tentatively planned. Instead we will do yet another cruise. You get a significant savings if you book a cruise while on board. On our last cruise we did that, booking our planned Great Lakes Cruise in June. So now we have booked another. In early October we will sail on Viking Mars from Montreal to Fort Lauderdale. The only really new port for us will be Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. We never hit PEI before. I don’t think either of us has been Bar Harbor, ME either. That’s hardly on a bucket list, but at least it will be new.

Our June cruise is on the smaller Viking Polaris that we took last year from Fort Lauderdale to Toronto. This one goes from Duluth, MN to Toronto.

So, enough for today. We’ll continue sailing (and blogging) on Saturday and Sunday and disembark in LA on Monday. We’ll be home by Monday afternoon.

Dull and boring day blog-wise. Sea days are mostly about relaxation, eating, drinking, reading, napping, etc. Nice for us. Boring to write about. And I forgot to take pictures of sitting areas, so tomorrow you will see three (unless I forget again).

Weather: perfect once again. Elaine spent a lot of time reading out on the balcony.

We did have one exciting (but sad) event. Around lunchtime the Captain came on the loudspeakers to announce we were coming to a stop off Mexico to allow a medical launch from shore to come along aside to evacuate a passenger. We don’t much more than that, but we watched the evacuation. Apparently it was a wheelchair-bound woman who had fallen and done some severe damage to herself. We hope she gets the care she needs in Mexico and gets home again soon.

Reading. I am on my third book. Here’s what I have read so far, Click on each image to read more about the book.

I haven’t talked breakfast much. Elaine often skips it. I don’t. Today we had breakfast together. I had my usual. (Yes, I’ll have to diet when we get home!) Elaine looks grumpy in the picture and will kill me for posting it. She wasn’t grumpy. Blame the photographer.

Cocktails as usual in the Living Room Bar. We haven’t made any great mates as we did on other cruises, but we often sit with Debbie (a single from Tucson) and with two retired (and now married) FBI agents. They have some great stories. The bartender is Sharon from the Philippines. She’s the best bartender we’ve had on any cruise. (That’s not Sharon in the background of the picture.)

We had dinner in the Restaurant. Excellent as always. My main was swordfish. Elaine had grilled octopus.

Weather has remained perfect for the whole trip. We had a few brief rain squalls a couple of times awhile back, but it has been sunny 95% of the time. Today kept that streak alive. BUT we did get some rougher seas. We rocked and rolled during the night and most of the day before it calmed out again by dinner time. The rough seas don’t bother us at all – we kind of like it. But lots of people were sick and not out and about.

I forgot to take a picture of a sitting area, so maybe I’ll do two tomorrow. I did take some pictures though. There was caviar and champagne available at the Living Room Bar at cocktail hour. We stuck with our regular drinks. Neither of us are caviar fans. Bar looks empty, but it wasn’t. Everyone was crowding around the caviar/champagne stations.

We had our second dinner at the Chef’s Table Restaurant. The theme tonight was Xiang (inspired by China’s Cantonese and Huaiyang cuisines). Hot and Sour Soup Cantonese Style. Crispy Fried Prawns with garlic and chili. Coconut Granita. Wok Fried Beef in black pepper sauce and rice in a lotus leaf. Chilled Mango Cream. It was all yummy.

After dinner we had a cocktail or two is a strangely quiet Explorer Bar. Elaine got her picture taken with Carlos, the regular bartender.

We passed by the pool deck on the way to bed where there was to be dancing under the stars.

Some people may have stayed up for the actual start of the new year in Torshavn Bar. We didn’t. We kind of missed watching Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen from Times Square.

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Posting this at 7:00 AM on Thursday morning. It looks like another fine day at sea.