At Sea & Sydney - November 4-6

At Sea + Our last day in Sydney
It had to end! We spent two days and nights crossing the Tasman Sea.
On the third day, we entered Sydney.

In the Culinary Arts Center, the visiting chef from Seattle had a final demo with a large turnout.

The next day, Chef Thomas & Kiersten had one last cooking demo.

The turn out was small enough that they invited us to stand around the island and watch.

At the end, Bob got a photo with Kiersten & Chef Thomas

Peggy & Theresa went to an Indonesian High Tea

 With some unusual offerings

And an appearance by Katut, our Indonesian waiter for our regular evening dinner

The second night out, the cast pt on the most extravagant show yet with numerous set and costume changes.

The Cruise Director assembled representatives from all of the ship's departments and introduced them one department at a time - to thunderous applause.

Later that same day, we got to meet the cast and take a backstage tour – this is the men’s dressing room. The women have one equally cramped.

Each day, we had fresh flowers on the table (and around the ship). The last evening was no exception.

On the last day, we dawdled and spent lots of time at breakfast (one last eggs Benedict!). We finally left for the airport at 10AM – to wait out our 9PM flight! Fortunately, they had free Wi-Fi. Bob had to buy an adapter plug to get the Australian pin arrangement to eth European, but we did spend a long day mostly catching up emails and updating blogs!

Next: Hawaii – Bellows Air Force Station