A great night’s sleep but the first official item on the day’s programme was a 9:45am “General Emergency Stations” passenger drill, for all passengers who had embarked at Fremantle or before. Yes, a repeat drill, as maritime regulations now demand a drill every month or 30 days.
We grabbed a quick bite before heading back to the cabin to collect the life-jackets and the compulsory trip to the Vista lounge muster station. It has been so chilly down there (quite why, no-one knows) so we grabbed our trivia ‘Royal Box’ near a window, which is a bit warmer.
No morning trivia. Paula reminded me of yesterday’s howler. It wasn’t Jill this time, we think it was Kelly – but it could have been Madison… To do with diamonds or jewels, instead of “carat”, she had “carrot”, but what was funnier still was that she didn’t realise it was wrong!
Anyway, we were there 10 minutes early to guarantee a seat - and no sign of any crew members! They all arrived quite late and took the hand held device round to scan everyone in. Needless to say, this took some time. By the time the drill was over, it was about 10:45 - but there was no coffee available in the atrium as the crew were still elsewhere on another crew drill, namely, a fire in the engine room, requiring the sealing of the area and then pumping in CO2 until the temperature dropped.
Back to the cabin picking up liquids from the buffet, only to find the replay of the F1 race was on – but lap 65 of 71…
Back for 2pm trivia – but I don’t really know why we bothered… Tough, really tough.
Onto the buffet for a late lunch then later, afternoon trivia there were just 5 of us in the team. It was so cold there that I think it upset my system somewhat so I popped a Lomotil pill.
For some reason, the 6:30pm production show, “Rock at The Opera” was cancelled so as it was formal night, we had arranged a table with Teri and Alex, Laura and John, our afternoon trivia team, but Teri was far from well, so it was just the four of us. Head Waiter Oana had sorted us a table, now for 4 and we had an extremely pleasant meal.
Off then to the late show in the Vista lounge; UK singer (from Rochdale), Lisa Lawton. A pleasant enough show but just like the other female performers, nothing magical.
Our first Greek port tomorrow, Piraeus, for Athens. Our third visit and our plans are for the HoHo bus – again. We know we’ll be a bit later than planned, but it won’t really affect us at all.
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