Sunday, August 31, 2025

Day 8: Sea Day (Sunday, 31 August 2025)

Cruise Compass

Dinner Menu: A Taste of France

Today’s Weather

Location at Start of Day

Location at End of Day

Internet speed was very consistent throughout the whole cruise:

The seas were quite rough overnight – lots of wind and wave motion. We both ended up taking anti-seasickness meds to help us sleep. E was still feeling queasy during the morning and we ended up back in the cabin at 1015A in order for her to nap. We knew that our schedule would likely prevent us from attending all the Progressive Trivia events, but this put a fork in it from the start, as we missed session #1 right away. Our first official trivia wouldn’t be until 345P’s Simpsons, where we placed 2nd with 12 (winner had 13). At 430P General Knowledge we got 16/20 while the winners had 19/20. Although we’d do well enough on trivia during this cruise we never had a 1st place finish. This seems to be because there were so many more experienced cruisers aboard who, frankly, had heard a lot of these questions before.

Our mascot through the trip:



We also tried our 2nd Park Café snack, this time an Italian Deli Sandwich with Olive Tapenade along with a Pork Jerk Wrap. We’d anticipated that we’d be hitting up Park Café every day, but it turned out that the 2nd visit was our last. We didn’t have any issues with Park Café – we just found that we don’t have the same appetites we had in prior years!

The “Rock the Room” event in Centrum wasn’t as advertised. Instead, it was the Cruise Director (Kat) introducing the senior hotel staff and then hosting a few minutes of chatting and…autographs! Yes, there’s a type of cruiser who really wants to collect staff autographs. Go figure.



The Headliner tonight was “The Barricade Boys”, a vocal group composed of guys who’ve all appeared in various Les Mis productions on Broadway or the West End. They were very good – one of the better Headline acts we’ve seen. Some Les Mis, Frankie Valli, R&B, and Queen.



In the category of “new stuff we tried for this cruise”, I purchased a pair of motion-sensitive nightlights that worked our really nicely. From their low profile (which makes it easy to squeeze into small spaces in the luggage) to variable colors and intensity to USB charging and magnetic mounting, these provided handy bathroom light as well as path lighting just outside the bathroom without being too obtrusive. We thought that this was one of our better purchases.