Sunday, September 11, 2016
The seas have calmed considerably when I wake up. I look out
and we are nearing the Newfoundland coast. Around 8am, we turned slightly right
and entered the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. We can see land on both sides. Around
1pm, we saw what will probably be our last ice berg of the trip. Clay says our
last iceberg ever! That’s a bit depressing. We went up to Lido for breakfast.
We both went up to Palm Court after. We could see a lot of shipping traffic
which has been absent for a long time. I did 9am gentle yoga. At 10am we both
attended the Cineflex talk by our expedition operator, Ron Chapple. It was
fascinating. All the camera equipment he has fitted on the ship is worth about
$500, 000. He told us his company does all the aerial photography for the TV
series Hawaii Five-O. After that I took my nearly completed needlepoint project
to Miyako and at last she offered me another kit. Unfortunately, she did not,
as promised, save me the tablet cover Clay had requested. She only had 3
choices left. I didn’t want to repeat the size I just finished. Choice 2 was a
half-spectacles case, which I had not seen before, but which was a nice size.
Choice 3 was what I had thought was the most coveted, the Crystal logo pillow
top. I had wanted a larger project but I didn’t love this one, plus it wasn’t a
complete kit like the others as it was just a canvas. You have to finish it to
make it anything like a pillow or else maybe frame it. Miyako showed me that
another guest had told her they were putting NWP 16 around the center of
theirs. I liked that idea of making a souvenir of the cruise that could be
framed or made into a pillow. She sold me. So, if finally got a new kit, but not
the one I had been working towards. Oh well.
Today Serenity put on a Sunday Jazz Brunch. What made it a
jazz brunch? There was live jazz playing in the Crystal Plaza where the buffet
tables were set up. There wasn’t any Bananas Foster or anything necessarily food
themed with the jazz motif. Clay went and took photos after they started
serving at 11:30am. We waited until after noon and went to Lido. The captain
made his noon announcement and said we’d be in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence until
we exit at Cabot Strait early tomorrow morning. He says we’re about half way to
Bar Harbor where he expects to easily reach on schedule.
We plan to lounge in the cabin until 4:30pm. We have our tickets
to Magic Castle at Sea in Pulse Disco then. We don’t really know what to expect
other than a 20-guest magic show. We’ll see.
The captain says they are refilling the swimming pool and heating
the water. It has been open more than closed for this sailing actually. It has
seen a surprising amount of use I think. It is probably about 57F outside, but
cloudy and drizzling all day so far. Still the weather is improving for us! Around
3pm we spotted several whale blows. We still haven’t seen any whale parts other
than those bowhead tops by Smoking Hills.
Back from Magic Castle at Sea. It was just a fairly standard
magic show. I’m not sure why they keep the audience so small. It would have
been as effective to me with twice as many in the audience, but then I really don’t
like magic. I think it is too sneaky.
Dinner in the main dining room tonight. Nothing exciting on
the menu for either of us. We plan to go to the popcorn movie tonight.
Hopefully tomorrow will be as calm as today was. Tomorrow is our final sea day.
It is also our 2nd and final formal night. We have reservations at
Prego. We still have to dress up.
