Oh dear. Yet another bad night… For our last but one breakfast, I reverted to beans and two types of sausage and ‘country fried potatoes’. (We used to call them potato wedges or chips…)
We sat with Ross and Jenny again, a couple we have chatted with before and thoroughly enjoyed it. You always have choices. Sit on an empty table and maybe someone will join you, or you can select the victims yourselves! The latter system works well for us and each cruise enlarges the circle. Remembering everyone’s names may not be so easy though, as not many people wear a name tag.
After yesterday’s victory, we really weren’t too fussed about winning again, but the prizes of rather weak fridge magnets went once again to Anne & John Dormer, with Norm & Marion. They couldn’t even give them away...
A last morning coffee and snack rolls in the atrium but they were running a table tennis competition down there, with the crew challenging the passengers. Overall, I think the passengers won – just. Very lively and typical of the day really.
Back to the cabin to try and complete the packing, ready to put out the cases for collection before dinner. Long gone are the days when I could pack for a six week trip in a matter of minutes. Now it takes an hour or two to try and squeeze everything inside and protect anything fragile. We borrowed M & M’s fancy luggage scales and all seemed to be just about OK before heading down to the Vista for a crew ‘Murder Mystery – Dangerous Danny’.
This was a stage play murder mystery and was performed faultlessly by the entertainment staff with assistance from dance captain Stephanie and the brilliant music manager, Sarah. She is a real star away from her piano and keyboards and the part she played was probably written for her. If not, it was perfect casting. Very well done and a fair few laughs.
A soup and a roll was deemed enough to see us through to dinner time, where we had organised another curry.
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| Nando, Ashley, Tom, Tink, Marcus |
Once again, I couldn’t connect to the internet and there was no time for a nana nap either, then it was the final quiz. Sadly, we didn’t finish on a win, but it was always interesting and occasionally, we learned something. The quizzes were very well supported and the presentations were varied. Sadly, there were far too many spelling mistakes in the PowerPoint presentations and some questions were a little ambiguous, some were years out of date, but I suppose that with a total of about 8,000 questions overall, including the other quizzes, it was to be expected.
We finalised the packing and attached the ‘Silver #3’ labels before leaving the 2 cases out. Right across from us, they had put out no less than 9 – and apparently, that was not unusual.
The choice of curry fir the last night was good one and this time we’d asked for fish balls as well as the other stuff. This time, we had a biryani chicken/rice type dish, a small spoonful of beef curry and the prawns again. Very nice too and filling.
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| Ashley, Tom, Tink, Marcus, Kat, Mark |
We headed off to the theatre whilst the waiters and assistants were gathering in piles of white envelopes (tips).
As usual, the crew show was very good, but without a doubt, the favourites were the two skits by the entertainment staff aided by a couple of dancers. Their rendition of the cruise favourite ‘If I was not not at sea, a xxxxx I would be’, was excellent, but even that paled into insignificance when compared to their latest offering.
Back in Livorno, we were berthed near the newest Princess ship, the Royal. The intro went along the lines of ‘the staff thought that as the Royal has a wonderful dancing waters display, that passengers on the Dawn shouldn’t miss out, so we have our own version'...
On came the toga wearers, carrying Princess drink bottles, from which they took mouthfuls of water. How on earth any kept a straight face is beyond me as they sprayed the water around, but it was a wonderful end to the show and to all intents and purposes, the cruise. So many thanks to the entertainment staff and dancers for their two skits. Alex, Tom, Fernando and Marcus, (plus Mark) plus dancers Kat, Ashley and the delightful Tink. Tink? With three Stephanies in the dance line, the elfin one is Tinkabelle…
Lots of hugs and hand shaking afterwards so we only just made it for the final atrium coffee before they closed down and then bedtime was almost a normal one for us at home, at 12:25!
Up 5:50 tomorrow for the Sydney sail in, the flight home and another two hours on the clock…
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