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Picture one from this evenings Captains Reception.
Pictures two, three and four taken yesterday in Lisbon.
Picture five last evening in front of Silk Road.
Last evening we set the clocks forward as we sailed into a new time zone. While it was a little more challenging to wake up this morning, we still managed to wake up fairly early. Keith worked out in the Fitness Center and was the first passenger to arrive there. John arrived a little while later and Mary did as well. He worked out on the Elliptical Machine as he has done throughout the world cruise. Anne Marie did our final wash of the world cruise. Keith spoke with Mary while they were working out. We have two more days to workout before this World Cruise adventure comes to a conclusion.
After Keith’s workout, he brought back coffee for both himself and for Anne Marie and a little later we both enjoyed a wonderful breakfast in our room.
The world cruise adventure is now winding down as we are sailing to our last port of call prior to arriving in Southampton, United Kingdom on May 7th.
We did some additional packing this morning and will continue to pack a little more on the next couple of days until everything is ready to go.
During Captain Glenn’s morning talk he noted that we were cruising at 13 knots per hour and using two of six engines. The forecast for tomorrow is quite good. The Captain’s thought for the day was “Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.”
After breakfast we attended our final Rap With The Rabbi. Today was another wonderful session and we have enjoyed these sessions throughout the World Cruise. Our thanks to the Rabbi for all of the time and effort that went into preparing for each of these sessions. We have both certainly learned a great deal from these sessions.
At 10:00 AM we attended a special session for the Full World Cruisers, which was the premiere of the Full World Cruise Video. The video was great and brought back wonderful memories of our world cruise adventure. Later in the summer we will each receive a DVD of this video. Jennifer and Gui also attended this session so it was nice for them to see video clips from each of the ports that we visited along with clips from many of the other activities that occurred throughout our adventure. Videos have been taken throughout the World Cruise by John Mentis who is one of the piano players on board the ship along with another person from the video departments and then someone from Crystal Cruise Los Angeles office came onto the ship to pull all of this together into one video. At the end of the video, the Captain and Cruise Director introduced members of the crew from all of the various departments. It was a very nostalgic and emotional event for many of us as this has truly been a remarkable adventure that we will remember for the rest of our lives.
At 12:00 Noon we attended the Sunday Jazz Brunch Buffet. We both enjoyed a salad entrée that we had preordered in the morning and Jennifer and Gui enjoyed a nice selection of food that was part of the buffet. As usual, all of the displays were picture perfect.
This afternoon, we attended the graduation ceremony for those students who took the college course that was offered on this cruise on Computers. The class was called “Introduction to Computers & Microcomputer Applications” and is a college course that is normally taken by Freshman or Sophomore College Students. It was an honor to be invited to this ceremony and we had a wonderful time and were so very happy to be there. Kudos to the graduates and to our friend Stan for teaching such a wonderful class.
We took care of a couple of items this afternoon including finalizing the details for our disembarkation from the ship just a few days from now.
Before dinner, we attended the Captain’s Formal Reception and this one did represent our final reception of this years World Cruise Adventure. We had a wonderful time at this event.
This evening was also the final formal evening of the world cruise and the four of us enjoyed a wonderful dinner in the main dining room.
This evening we attended the entertainment, which featured Tommy Tune, In Steps In Time. This show was outstanding and featured wonderful dancing, music and singing.
Keith & Anne
