Day 32 - At Sea

Asst Waiter Shekar & Waiter Erdogan

Today is Friday, the last day of our Trans-Atlantic cruise.  For a change, Ray was up an hour before me this morning.   I did wake up before sunrise again though.   We are heading into the outer edges of Hurricane Thomas today, so it was mostly overcast this morning.  My main video camera gave me an error message saying it had picked up condensation and I needed to turn it off for an hour, so I switched to my little Flip camera to record today's sunrise.   It seems like it did a pretty good job, but I'll see when I go to put all my sunrise videos together.  I've recorded sunrise every morning as we crossed the ocean and plan to put together a collage video of sunrises across the Atlantic.

It's been raining most of the day and the ship is a little rocky, but not bad.  It's been rockier overnights than during the day the last few days.  There isn't much on the schedule today.  I went to play Bingo this morning and to the final jackpot Bingo this afternoon.   I am so unlucky at Bingo, I even lost at the biggest looser game.  This is a game where you have a chance if any of your cards have not hit on any number.  There were only 4 people still in the running for that when I had to drop out.

Sunset on last day

The only other thing we did today was to go look at the photos the ship photographer took and pick out which ones we wanted.  We had coupons to get 2 free.  On the last formal night after dinner the captain posed for photos with anyone who wanted one, so we got in line for the photo-op.   That's one of the ones we'll bring home. 

We're just about packed for the trip home. The rest of the day we just relaxed, read, and enjoyed the ride.  I'm glad we're not flying home - all 4 of our suitcases are definitely overweight.  We have a fifth, expandable one for the 2-day drive home and another nylon one if necessary, but I think we can fit everything in the 5.  Most of the souvenirs we bought are small stuff, but t-shirts add up.

We'll go to our last dinner in a little while and say goodbye to new friends.  Tomorrow we begin the drive home.   I'll try to post this before I go to sleep tonight.