Day 14: A Final Clear Day at Sea (7/25/2010)

I got up at 11am today. Davin was still in bed. I went downstairs to ConneXions to get tickets for the 2pm Planetarium show.

Next, Davin and I went up to breakfast. We noticed that the weather had finally cleared up! We saw quite a few other passenger ships and cargo ships nearby. Obviously we were in a main shipping lane area. We also saw sea gulls! Yay, land is close by!

Then, we grabbed out camcorder and walked through the ship explaining all the features that were onboard. At 2pm, we went to Planetarium show. It was pretty interesting. It was about the size of the universe and made you feel really small and insignificant as one speck walking around on Planet Earth.

After the show, we returned to our room and played Borderlands for about an hour. Borderlands. At 4pm, we returned to the Planetarium room to hear the a lecture given by the chief navigator on “Navigating at Sea”. It was pretty interesting to see how much navigation has changed over the last hundred years. Also, it was neat to learn that the reason time zones were made necessary was in order to calculate longitude for use in navigation. On our the way back to our room, we were drawn into the theater hall by the sound of string instruments. There we watched a wonderful performance by the ship’s Adagio String Quartet.

After the concert, we went shopping to use up our remaining $100 of onboard credit. I bought a nice hoody which say Transatlantic Cruise 2010 on the back. Davin bought a nice Queen Mary 2 souvenir shirt. Shopping complete we went to lunch (at dinnertime).


After lunch, we decided to go in the jacuzzi one last time. We had to skip lifting because there wasn’t time for both. Then we packed out bags and left them outside our room to get picked up. They disappeared really fast! Then we played Borderlands together. Around 11pm, we went upstairs to have dinner. Finally we showered and went to bed around midnight. I had trouble sleeping because I knew we had to get up early and had an eventful (potentially stressful) day tomorrow.