Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Sunday February 1, 2009, Superbowl Sunday

Our first full day on the ship was a day at sea. I slept in that morning. Karen was good and actually got up and worked out in the morning. I have no idea what time she got up since I slept through it all – this would be true each morning of the cruise. I would sleep threw all the noise we heard in our cabin and Karen getting up and Karen would wake up with any little noise.

After getting up, getting ready and eating breakfast we went to the morning trivia contest. At trivia you can be on teams of up to 6 people and questions range from very easy to very hard. Some people take trivia seriously – very seriously to win the lucrative prize of luggage tags or if you are really lucky a princess tote bag. Other people, like me just like to have fun. Since it was superbowl bowl Sunday there were some football questions peppered in with the regular questions. Trevor was the host of the game. One of the questions was who is the only NFL team to have a perfect season. I called out the Lions – to commemorate the 2008 0-16 season –prefect losing season. Trevor laughed and said no, perfect winning season. Karen and I had joined with one other couple and we did decent, but did not win.

After the trivia game I went up to Trevor and asked him if he had been on the Star Princess in September. He replied that he had been the naturalist, he went on to say something about his fiancé and I said Becky? He gave me a strange look and I went on to explain I had heard they were dating. He also said that I was the first person to recognize him. We chatted for a bit and as I walked away I began to think, he must think I am some kind of crazy stalker passenger that I knew who was dating, since I did not explain how I knew. I thought maybe I should explain to him the next time I saw him how I knew.

After trivia we hung out at the indoor pool for awhile. Here we are. We then grabbed some lunch and headed over to Club Fusion to watch the Superbowl. We had made arraignments to watch the game with Nancy, Rick, Ally and Rich, and some of their friends. When we got there, Ally was holding the table for everyone and we sat and chatted with her for a while. The rest of the gang joined us by the start of the game. Rich was a huge Cardinals fan since he had lived in Arizona for a while, so we decided to cheer for the Cardinals (obviously we didn’t care a ton.) Pretty early on it became evident that the feed we were getting did not include the superbowl commercials. I was pretty bummed since that is my favorite part of the game. It was fun to watch the game with a big crowd of people.

Here are some pictures of everyone watching the game. The half time show was good – Journey performed and we really enjoyed it. I love “Don’t stop believing.”

That night was the first of the formal nights on the cruise, so we left during the 3rd quarter to go back to the cabin and get ready for dinner. We did have the game on and saw the disappointing last few seconds. We continued to get ready for the night a head…..

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