Friday, September 5, 2025 

Day 13: Sea Day (Friday, 05 September 2025)

Cruise Compass

Dinner Menu: Giovanni’s Table    (MDR Menu: A Taste of Royal History)

Today’s Weather

Location at Start of Day

Location at End of Day

A very relaxing day.  We went to the Theater to hear from the Singers and Dancers as part of the ongoing Life@Sea series.  This was an insight into their audition, casting, rehearsal, performance, and general production processes.  Continued with the Life@Sea theme by heading to Colony Club to hear from Kat (Cruise Director) and the Hotel Manager (nominally her boss) as they handled Q&A from the audience.

At the Theater mid-day for another performance by Ekins, this time doing Moonlight Sonata, Clare de Lune, and the Warsaw Concerto from the 1942 movie “Dangerous Moonlight”, ham-fistedly renamed “Suicide Squadron” for its US release.  All were very nice and the theater was a full as we’d see it all cruise.

Seas today were fast and a little choppy, but nothing like the first night.  Winds were howling however, and when we walked past a door leading outside after the show we got a good blast of very cold air.

Dinner in Giovanni’s was quite nice – we both enjoyed it a lot.

The Headliner was ventriloquist Jerry Goodspeed.  He was entertaining, although kind of “more of the same” when it comes to ventriloquists.  His act was gentle, however, as opposed to vulgar, and that was nice.  His finale has him controlling two of his dummies doing a duet with himself, including seeming to simultaneously having both dummies singing together!

At around 1130P Cruise Director Kat made a general announcement that folks reported Northern Lights were visible, but we were tired and decided not to get up.  It isn’t clear whether lights were ACTUALLY visible to the naked eye.  In talking with others during later days it sounds to me like what people saw was only through cameras, much like our outing in Reykjavik.  So we don’t think we actually missed anything.