Fun Day at Sea. Another Winner!

November 20. Fun Day at Sea. Another Winner! Oh what fun to do just what I wanted all day! I won the Laundry Lottery again and was able to get a load finished while others dallied at breakfast or heaven forbid - sleeping...

I had time for a double espresso, solved the daily Sudoku at the Cafe, stopped at reception to refresh my key that had stopped working, put together a bag of cleaning, and made it back to the laundry in time to switch my laundry to the dryer! What talent!

With at least a half hour to spare, I was able to have breakfast before returning to rescue my dry laundry, fold, hang and put away! Dang I'm good! Maybe it was the double espresso; I've found that with three packets of Truvia it comes quite close to a Cuban Coffee. One cup pretty much does it for the day!

Quiet day till 3:00 pm when the Mariner started a country fair. Each department set up a game booth where you could earn raffle tickets by competing. There was only 45 minutes to play. The Bar department had a ring toss using liquor bottles, the Deck hands had you competing to see who was the fastest at wrapping rope around a cleat, Housekeeping had you stuffing pillows into pillowcases, Entertainment had you knocking over bowling pins with a weight tied to your belt, the Pursers had a horse race that had you wrapping a string around a wooden stick to pull your horse across the finish line. The Restaurant team had a basketball hoop and the Destination management team had a "slot machine"; you would draw a card with a picture of bananas, oranges or apples. The Manager held a stick that acted as a slot machine handle, and there were three staff seated, each with a bag in their laps, with an apple, an orange, a banana and if they pulled out three of your "fruit" you won! It was very clever! There was a treasure hunt for the Boutique shop, and everyone had a grand time going from booth to booth playing games and collecting tickets! There was a drawing for prizes from the Spa and the Boutique after the end of the fair and most everyone on the ship got involved!

Great fun today and tomorrow we head for the Namib Desert in an off road vehicle and visit Dune 7... more later!