Amy & Andy’s Excellent Adventure 2022/23: NZ/Oz Edition – Day 8

Where We Spend Day 1 of 4 Days At Sea Exactly How We Figured It Would Go

Before launching into Day 8, I’d like to officially finish Day 7 with these two photos that I took last night during a last minute night star demo by our resident astronomer up on Deck 9. Ian (the astronomer) had arranged for the Deck 9 lights to be turned off to allow us to have a great view of the night sky. I was able to grab these two photos.

Twilight at 10:00 PM
Constellation Orion – upside down in the Southern Hemisphere

Anyway. Day 1 proceeded as follows:

1. Breakfast.

2. Andy exercises. I look for a place to hang out. Unfortunately, the spot on Deck 2 aft is blocked off (maybe the rocking and/or the wind?). I ended up on the Deck 7 terrace by the buffet.

3. Have lunch – the restaurant was closed, so the buffet it is.

4. Hang out exactly where we are, because deck 2 aft is closed.

5. Sit in on the daily trivia. Got 14 points out of a possible 23.

6. Go back to the room to change for dinner.

7. Go to the Abba revue show at 6:00 pm, where we are amazed that we recognize so few songs. And yet a woman behind us knew every word of every song. We know this because she sang out loud every word to every song. Good news: she could carry the tune pretty well.

8. Go to dinner. We had a great conversation with a couple from Nashville.

9. Wandered around a bit. We ended up listening to the pianist in the atrium and watching the Christmas decorations away with the ship. Of course, the ship wifi won’t let me upload a clip.

I don’t remember anything else?

Tomorrow: Day 2 of 4. Rinse and repeat.

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