New Years - 2016 - Day 17

What a wonderful blue sky we had and perfect weather with hardly any breeze all day.

 

Ed woke up early and reserved our chairs on the pool deck, then ate breakfast and went to the gym for his ½ hour on the bicycle.

 

Then both us stayed in the sun until12:30pm when we went to AquaSpa had had grilled Tuna with grilled vegetables.  No question they serve the best food for lunch so we have enjoyed it a lot.

 

Then we stayed out until 2:00pm and came inside and we may have burned a little again!!  We cleaned up and went to the casino for our afternoon playing secession where we really didn’t play as there were no players when we went down.

 

We went back to the room and spent an hour packing and then took a nap – we are going to miss the naps!!

 

We sat in the lounge with some new friends Peter and Chrisz from Canada and talked about future cruises.  Peter and Ed played blackjack together a number of times and they are very nice.  We also talked about their joining us on the Jan ’17 Dubai cruise.

 

After that it was time to go to the show which was an acrobatic duo who were really great.  We had seen them before and she was a member of one of Russian gold metal teams in the Olympics.  They put on a great show.  On this cruise, the individual acts were better than the big staff production shows.

 

Dinner was great as only the new friends from El Paso showed up for dinner and we had a good time.  Hopefully we will meet up with them again.

 

Then it was back to the casino where we both lost.  This will be only the 4^th out of over 40 gambling trips where we came out behind – but that’s what can happen – we played the games correctly and just lost.

 

We said our goodbyes to the casino staff and went to the room to finish the blog, check emails and finish packing.  We will get off the ship at 7:30am and will be met at the port exit by our tour guide who will take us through Valparaiso and then on the Santiago where we will check into the Marriott.

 

Barb’s back survived better than we both though it would. 

 

Over the next couple of days, I will load some of the great videos we would like to share with everyone.

 

Night

 

Going out for the afternoon

Barb on the deck

Mark and Cathy from El Paso