Thursday, May 10th, 2018 DAY AT SEA SUNSHINE
I was awake at 6 am and by 7 am I was out walking on Deck
Three. Did half an hour and then headed
to the Hudson Room for 8 am Mass. I met
Mary at the Service Desk on my way in; she was changing the setup for payment
of tips to the crew so that she could individually give the tips to those that
had been the most help during the trip.
We’re taking the easy way out and letting the ship sort the tips from
the daily fee of $27.00 that is being collected from each room for that
purpose. Father Steve was saying the
mass and Father Peter, a guest, was also there for the mass. Mary talked with him and we discovered that
they’d x-rayed his hand and shoulder when he’d fallen at the beginning of the
cruise but did nothing more than give him a sling and a bill for over
$300. So, he agreed that Mary was
probably smart to wait until she gets home for the x-rays when her insurance
will pay for them. Mary did the
readings for today’s mass. Father Peter
had two slings and he gave Mary one of them and it made her shoulder feel so
much better.
After Mass I checked the room but Jim was already up in the
Lido with the girls for breakfast.
Today is one of two finals days of cruising the high seas on the Baltic
Sea that will bring us to Rotterdam and the end of our journey.
I worked most of the day on uploading photos to my computer
and then making copies on a USB Drive for each of the girls. I also included a copy of this journal on
their USB Drive. 
The Gala Night was fun!
Our last dress up event of the cruise.
We had Turf and Surf (filet Mignon and lobster tail) …. Fabulous! Our meals have been outstanding throughout
the cruise. Jim sprung for a bottle of
wine to complete our dinner.
After dinner we enjoyed listening to the Adagio group, two
women… a violinist and a pianist … play classical music: Four Seasons by Vivaldi . Later we walked to the Ocean Bar for
possible dancing but found they were concentrating on South American Music, so
we didn’t stay too long before heading back to the stateroom where we watched
the movie “Finding Fathers” on television until ten o’clock.
Friday, May 11th, 2018 FINAL DAY AT SEA SUNSHINE
I was awake at 5 am and walking on deck three by 6 am. I walked for an hour; it was extremely cold
and very windy. There was only one
other person walking besides me. Others
would walk out and go a short distance and pop back inside the ship. There was heavy surf but it wasn’t rocking
too much.
Stopped at 7 am and went to the library where I bumped into
Karen from Florida and we talked about our days after we leave the ship. She is going with her friends first to
Haarlem for a few days and then on to Amsterdam for the balance of her extra
week. Exchanged information again and
hope to meet up some day again on our travels.
7:45 am I walked to the Hudson Room and found Mary already
there. She did the readings again this
morning and Father Peter also participated in the Mass for the first time. Our singing was so bad yesterday morning
that Father Steve asked the best voice in the room if she’d lead the singing. She
agreed as long as she could select the song.
We sounded oh so much better; primarily because she’d chosen a song that
we all knew! Father Steve was ordained
rather late in life and was an attorney for years before becoming a priest ten
years ago. Came from a family of eleven
children. As a child of about seven,
his older sister told him not to sing in church because “he didn’t know how to
sing”.
Jim, Mary and I enjoyed breakfast in the Lido and Shirley
ate her breakfast in the room as she was starting to pack for the departure on
Saturday. Afterwards I went to the 9:30
am computer class. Jim went out to walk
but turned around when he found out how cold it was and did his walking in the
hallways of the inside of the ship along with many other people who didn’t want
to work out in the gym.
I found Jim and Steve in the lobby and Steve took photos
from my camera screen of the photos that I took with my camera/cell phone last
night at the Gala Dinner. Good shots of
everyone all dressed up.
I then went to Mary’s room and helped her get her suitcases
packed for departure. She is having
more and more trouble getting around and doing things. The plan will probably be for x-rays as soon
as she gets to Marybeth’s home in Michigan.
The sling on her arm seems to help her if for no other reason than it
keeps her from lifting things.
Then I went to our room and started packing our bags. The large suitcases have to be out in the
hallway before midnight for the staff to pick up and take to a holding room for
taking off of the ship in the morning.
We found that we could have done it ourselves but it would have been
impossible for Mary and Shirley to manage their suitcases themselves.
At noon we met the girls for lunch. The afternoon was more packing and
sorting. Dinner was very good and I
truly tried to cut back on the type and amount of food. I know that I’ve gained weight on this
trip. Today was no ice cream, no bread
and fruit and cheese for dessert at dinner.
I gave half of the huge piece of meat to Jim at dinner as there was no
way I could have eaten it all even if I wasn’t cutting back. I had a good day food wise; now just need to
stay on track while in Amsterdam. We
were tucked into bed by 10 pm with alarm clocks set for 6 am.
Stay tuned for our eleven day adventure in Amsterdam that begin tomorrow.
My steps today were 12,612
…. 5.54 miles. That hour in the morning really added up!
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