Monday, February 2, 2009 – Fun Day at Sea

Monday was a second day in a row at sea. Karen got up early and went and exercised, I slept in, but was up and ready in time for morning Trivia at 10:30 am. We again joined Ally, Rich, Nancy and Rick and we were on fire!! We totally won the game and walked away with the highly coveted luggage tags.

After trivia we decided to lounge around at the pool for a while. It was really busy, which was not surprising since it was a beautiful warm day. We grabbed some pizza for lunch and ate by the pool. The downside of making friends with the cruise staff is that they come to you when they need participants for the silly contests. At 1:00 there was a battle of the sexes cocktail making contest. Sean came over to us and said we are short one woman, we need one of you to do this. I convinced Karen since she knows more about drinks she should help. So Karen became one of the contestants. I became Karen’s official photographer.

The basis of the contest was that each group had a bartender who told then how to make a drink and they had to make it as fast as they could, then the next person would come up and make another drink. It was like a drink making relay. Once the drinks were all made the teams were judged on taste, look and presentation. The contest itself was a mass of flying drinks and ice, people running all over the place and the crowd cheering.

Here are the women intently listening to the bar tender as he explains how to make each drink. One of the other women making her drink. Here is Karen’s finished drink. The women soliciting support from the crowd. Here is Karen smiling for the camera.
It was a close call, but the men just edged out the women for the win.

After the drink contest Karen and I continued our lounging.

Eventually we made our way back to the cabin to get ready for dinner. On our way to dinner I had Karen take a picture of me in my blue dress. This was a dress I bought before the Alaska cruise for $12 and I loved it, but I didn’t have any pictures of me in it.

Here I am in the blue dress. Karen and I ate dinner, just the two of us and then headed over to Club Fusion for the Majority Rules game. This where a question is asked the answer the most groups come up with is the right answer. If you had that answer you get a point. Part of the fun of the game was that someone from your group had to run the answer up to the front and everyone would race up there. Trevor was the cruise staff running the game after everyone turned in their answers; he would read them aloud and tally the votes. We joined the regular group and Rich and I took turns running the answer up. Most of the questions were pretty funny and some lead to some rather adult answers. One of our answers was a bit questionable, so when I ran down there and handed it to Trevor I simply said, I’m sorry. He flipped it over and just started laughing. When he read the answers out loud he needed to paraphrase ours, which of course lead our table to cheer. Again we were the loud ones. We did not win this time, our streak was over, but we had a lot of fun.

After the game Karen and I went to the production show “Do you wanna Dance?” It was a good show with lots of great music and dancing. After the show we headed to the second heat of Princess Pop Star. The round was not as entertaining as the first one; Marcus tried again, but still did not win. After Pop Star we went up to Skywalkers. Karen went out on the deck and took this picture of the moon off the back of the ship. It was another late night and the next day we were in Puerto Vallarta, so we did not stay out too late.