Day 22 - 08/24/22 - At Sea to Halifax, Nova Scotia

 With an hour time change backward last night, we easily rose in time to attend BettyAnn's 9am coffee chat.  Only this time it was hosted by her boss, Benny, the entertainment director.  The big take away from this session was her description of how the Cruise & Travel Director has changed.  Now the Cruise & Travel Director reports to the Entertainment Director.  Her principal duties are to make public announcements, introduce World Stage entertainment, & read the teleprompter during the EXC talks.  

 

In the next hour she presented the EXC talk on Finding Happiness.  Then she hosted the ASK THE CAPTAIN session.  The big take away from that session was that there was only one Covid case among the crew this cruise.  He refused to provide statistics on passenger Covid case counts other than to indicate the case numbers were declining currently and that they had peaked during our time in Iceland.

 

After lunch, there was a short Meet the Artist session with the Lincoln Center Artists.  Dr. Douglas gave his final talk on being a scientist.  This was followed by a meet the artists session featuring Meaghan & Gabe from Billboard Onboard. It was really good.  She's done 16 contracts and was one of the original Billboard Onboard artists when the program launched. 

 

Before dinner we met a couple from Tigard who had received the same Costco Travel letter as we had concerning a shop card problem.  We enjoyed dinner with Don & Kathy from Mineral before watching In Tandem by the One Step Dance Company.  Before the performance, we met two more couples who will be on the next cruise with us, and I received notice that yet another couple on this cruise will also be with us to Australia on the Westerdam.

 

We wrapped up our evening listening to Meaghan and Gabe do a set on songs that never hit #1. Due to the crowd we had to listen to it from the adjoining Rolling Stone Rock Room area.

 

I finished out the evening at the 10:30pm feeding with a drumstick and some shrimp before Angela and I watched the Port Essentials video on Halifax on our TV.  We're planning on doing a GPS My City walking tour.

 

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