May 31, 2012 - at sea

May 31, 2012 - at sea

We have two days at seas before we reach our last stop in Le Havre, France. The British immigration officials are on board and we need to meet with them this morning to clear our entry into the UK. It makes it a lot easier when we disembark in Dover. We will be given our passports to keep. Until now for the most part the ship has held the passports for all the passengers.

Today is a formal night, but I don't think anyone is looking forward to it. There is a cocktail party so we can get a free drink and there is lobster for dinner - again. Life is rough.

We are in Le Havre the day before we get off the ship so we need to pack sometime in the next two days.

The weather is cooler, but the sun is out and the seas aren't too bad. I'm going to try to lay out by the pool this afternoon. That means no bridge game.

We had breakfast with two couples we had not met before which was enjoyable. We did go to the bridge lesson and now are doing the immigration which took about two minutes.

Time for trivia. Victory at last. Our team finally won. Our prize was a magnetic clip. You would have though we had won the world series. We have bragging rights for the day.

I've started to get ready for getting off the ship. I got tip money, the ship adds $24 a day to our bill for tipping the dinning room staff and the room stewart. The bar staff get
15% added to your drink bill. We like to give a little extra to Nathan and Francesca our dinning room staff and our stewart Dennis. I'm using euros because I have a lot left over from our last cruise and they are not worth anywhere what I paid for them last year. No reason to hold them. I checked our bill and I found one problem with a laundry charge. We sent laundry out four times and two of the times was a $20 all you can stuff in a bag special and they only gave me credit for one special and charged regular price for the other 3.

We attended the farewell cocktail party and then dinner.

The seas are rough and that delayed the show, which was a dance production, while they redid some of the dance routines because of the ship's rocking. It was a show we had seen on a previous cruise, but still a good show. It was the last production show by the ship's troupe.




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Hal