Noon location 10°
47’ S, 134° 57
E, 18.7Kts
avg speed
Randy and I are sitting on our deck, a light breeze is
wafting over us as we gaze at the wake of the ship trailing out behind us in an
arrow straight line. What a life! We are
heading almost exactly due west across the Arafura Sea—no, I had no idea either
where that was before today! (N and W of Darwin)—towards Darwin, then through
the Dundas Strait, across the Van Dieman Gulf and on into Darwin at 7am
tomorrow morning. We are going to do our best to be up and on deck for the
sail-in.
I will not see a kitchen for at least another 102 days so
why on earth I decided to go to the cooking show, I have no idea. But go I did,
and it was a lot of fun! The chef and the maître d’ ran the quite amusing show
(after Tim the Cruise Director left them to their own devices—good idea, too,
as he is a bit much!) and after a slow start was not only funny but very
informative. Although why exactly would I want to know that Chef goes through
50,000 eggs in the first 70 days? Or that we, the passengers on board this
cruise, have already gone through between 12 and 15 TONS of food and drink?
Hic. Burp.
Anyway, I learned how to make crepes Suzette. Sort of. And
gnocchi. And fresh pasta. Now, how to remember that for when we go to the
timeshares in Lakes Entrance and Ballarat?
Had a bit of a dust-up with the credit card company
yesterday. I went to all the trouble of telling them that we would be
travelling all over the world so they shouldn’t deny a charge just because it
comes from Timbuctu—perhaps that’s a bad example ‘cause we not going to
Timbuctu, but you get my point. It never occurred to me that they might reject
a charge from the Sun Princess, sailing in the Gulf of Carpenteria off the
coast of Australia, because the charge came from Princess’s parent company—in
the US!
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| Flowers in our entry |
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| These are REALLY long halls |
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| the Horse Races with staff mugging for my camera |
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| Internet cafe |
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| Library |
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| Atrium |
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| More atrium |
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| Regency dining room |
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| Casino |
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| Randy exercising |
My next challenge is getting a part of the dining room
blocked off for a lunch for our Cool Cruisers group. I have already been told
by the dining room staff that that is impossible. They want me to have 100
people lined up outside to all go in together. I’m going to talk to Estella and
see if there is anything that can be done.
