Before going to bed the prior night the ship had advanced clocks ahead one hour to get back on Pacific Time, so we lost an hour of vacation.  Boo hoo!  ;-)  In the morning I went down to Guest Services because we still hadn't seen $250 of OBC that we should have had as a result of cashing in some points from our RCCL Visa card.  Turns out that while CitiBank took our points away they never transmitted the data to RCI, so no OBC.  I get to fight with CitiBank when we get back.  Oh joy!

Following WJ breakfast we (D, E, A, J, S) went down to Schooner for the riddles contest....which we won!  We scored 10/13, beating the next team who scored 8.  Prizes today were the best: baseball caps.  We're now 3/3 on our cruises, having managed to win trivia once on each trip.  On our way back to the cabins we stopped to look down on the Centrum where towel folding lessons were underway.

All of us went over to the Game Room pre-lunch where we introduced A to the game of cribbage.  The others played Set.  We figured we'd try MDR for lunch, but arrived at 1PM just as they were closing, so off to WJ instead.  W joined us there, having just completed the Behind the Scenes tour, which he loved.  Lots of picture sharing at the table.

The following photos are all from W's tour.

Part of the process of making all those dinner rolls we enjoy.  A machine rolls out the dough and segments it as shown above.  The next step is that each of these dough forms is rolled into a ball, which will be baked into a roll.

Lots of eggplant being prepped.  One of the appetizers this evening will incorporate eggplant.

A crew bar on a lower deck.

A crew lounge.

A crew buffet line

The crew mess hall.

Lots of (clear) broken glass.  Another bin contains not-clear broken glass.  Food waste is apparently ground up to a pulp and put into a giant vat where it is mixed with water and bio-organisms that break the food down in 2-3 days.  Once broken down it can be vented out to sea.

Not 100% certain, but I believe this is an engine control station.  Or perhaps it is part of the bridge?

Out on the bridge wing, showing how the staff can look down the entire length of the ship.  Useful during docking maneuvers.

The two wooden handles are azipod controls, allowing each to be rotated in any direction as well as incorporating throttle control.

Storage for flags.  Contains both maritime flags as well as flags of the nations of ports visited.

Rank hath its privileges.

An automated folding machine in the laundry.  They auto-fold sheets.  Towels are hand-folded.

A laundry officer demonstrates pressing a crewman's pants.

 From there, we went over to the theater to listen to Captain Goran's presentation and Q&A.  Pretty interesting.  After that we had to (sadly) take time to pack in preparation for our exit next day, but we returned to the theater for the concert by the Radiance Orchestra.  Good stuff!  After that, several went off for another presentation about the RCMP and they eventually met the rest of us in the Schooner for drinks.  Dinner followed, during which Reynato outdid himself.  Our table of 11 shared 17 desserts that night!  He kept bringing them and, to our discredit, we kept eating them.

We attended the Farewell show where The Alleycats made an encore appearance and cruise director Steve (Davis) did a great version of "Shout".  We've only seen three cruise directors, but were impressed by Steve.  We loved Marc Walker on Enchantment - he was more charming, while Steve was more energetic.

The team at the farewell show.  Cruise Director Steve Davis in the foreground.

From there, one more visit to Derrick at the piano bar for a (much) more subdued night before finally off to bed.