Day 09 - 08/11/22 - At Sea to Iceland

It's hard to believe that a sea day could be as packed with events and happenings, but this one was. It started with a 9:30am  buzzing of my phone indicating an incoming message. It had been a tough night sleeping and I had finally fell into a very deep sleep.  I groggily remembered that there was a 10am EXC presentation on Canada so I scurried to get ready and met Angela at the Main Stage. The presentation was packed as most are.  It was followed by a reprise of the fjords talk by Dr. Douglas.  Even this presentation was quite full.

 

From the presentations we met Kathy & Don from Mineral for a nice Lido lunch getting to know each other better. We (Kathy, Angela, and I) attended Dr. Douglas'  Afternoon lecture on Volcanoes, then Angela I attended a meet the Artists featuring Cantaré and hosted by BettyAnn.  We learned that they are training another quartet and they will be on the Westerdam when we sail it to Australia and beyond in October.

 

After the interview, Hyperion Knight hosted a Name That Tune music trivia in the Billboard Onboard area.  It was like mini concert and a lot of fun. It was well attended and the crowd overflowed into the Rolling Stone Rock room. We then persuaded the maitre d at the Pinnacle Grill to fit us in at 7pm.

 

I then exchanged messages with our younger daughter and had her phone my payment information into Costco Travel as my and her attempts to pay for an upcoming cruise using their website would not work.  Unfortunately, Costco Travel's only resolution is to phone in, and that gets a bit expensive from a cruise ship. They really need an alternative contact method for their customers who are traveling internationally. In any event, our daughter's phone in approach worked and I received confirmation that the cruise was paid in full.

 

Our dinner at the Pinnacle Grill was okay but not great.  While the service was excellent, my boneless ribeye was a bit tough and my fruit plate items were a bit unripe.  Afterwards we caught the second show by Chris Pendleton and she was excellent once again.

 

Our clocks were set ahead once again so we are now on Reykjavik time which won't change while we are in Iceland for the next 5 days. 

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