Cruise The World With Us

Monday – February 24, 2025

Didn’t want to use “At Sea” again for the title since there will be plenty of days coming up that will be just that. Wonderworld applies to the stage show that was presented this evening.

No sunrise or sunset time-lapse because the sun was obscured by clouds.

We are still trying to catch up on all the fruit in our cabin so stayed in and ate some of it rather than dine for breakfast on deck 5. In late morning we rode the elevator to deck 13 for World Cruise games. Today’s game involved a plastic bottle, string and a wooden dowel. The contestants from all four teams (Air, Water, Fire, Earth) sit in chairs on one side of the pool deck, extend arms straight in front of themselves, grasp the wooden dowel to which a string is attached and without bending arms reel in the plastic bottle on the other side of the pool deck at the end of the string. Sounds pretty simple but you can’t bend your arms which makes it more difficult to wind the string around the dowel. Needless I say it – Air did not win. Again we came in second. The next game will be won by the team with the tallest thing they can keep floating in the pool. Jan has an idea for this one but I won’t divulge it until it becomes reality

Following World Cruise games we went to the dining room for lunch. Only item of note for a photo was Boston Cream Pie.

This afternoon was the fifth session of PAzz. In the theatre jazz music is performed live while photos from the passengers are displayed on a screen on stage. These photos were from our visits beginning at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and ending with Moorea. I put together a short video which shows the four photos of mine that were chosen for this session. As with previous sessions, over 1,000 photos were submitted and 100 were chosen for display. I’m beginning to believe the only types of photos I submit that the judges like are of people and animals.

Dinner came next and there are a few photos of choices from today’s menu.

Wonderworld doesn’t really provide any insight for what was to be presented in the theatre this evening. The costuming for this show was the most elaborate of any that have been presented. Much of the music was from “Phantom Of The Opera” – a personal favorite of Jan’s (she listened to it frequently when she was pregnant). The show also included a performance by four men who were able to bend and twist their bodies in ways that would seem impossible. That was done with a background of techno music. The show also included ballet. Thanks to Kelsey for providing the video and photos from Wonderworld.

New jigsaw puzzle on deck 7 – last entry in today’s media which you can find here.