Cruise day 12

12:15
Good morning, everyone.  Welcome to Jan 1st (2nd by the time I send this) and a Happy New Year.  Did you enjoy your celebrations or was it a case of 'just another evening and early bed'.  Mine is usually the latter but as the morning goes on into the afternoon, most of us in the One Traveller group are feeling a bit the worse for wear.  
Each morning, we always have a get together with Steve from ten onward but we were decidedly thin on the ground.  We put a team together to do the morning quiz and didn't do too badly - 15/20 is respectable.

On the second day, Steve gave out One Traveller quiz sheets to fill in and return.  I did mine there and then and handed it back.  He marked them today and guess what - I got the highest marks - not that any of us scored all that many - 13.5 isn't brilliant.

Diane and I were going to walk the deck but, as we left the shelter of the fjords, it became decidedly rocky so it put paid to our fitness plans!!  We're down in our cabins having rest time before lunch.  This afternoon there is afternoon tea (will try to remember to take a photo) and, as always, pre-dinner drinks when Steve gives out any notices or information.

I took a little clip from my cabin window.  The glass is pretty mucky by now, as you can see, but it was so lovely to see the sun and the white seahorse waves.

21:57
The lovely weather didn't last for long and now it's pretty choppy so we must be hitting the North Sea again.  That's life, I guess.

I spent a lot of the afternoon in my cabin, catching up on sleep so missed the afternoon tea - not that I needed it in any way whatsoever.   Pre dinner drinks was fun - one of our group won a bottle of bubbly in a quiz and shared it with the rest of us - those who wanted some, that is.  Dinner was, as always, absolutely amazing - I'm going to have to do some adjusting when I get home.

Then it was the show, the Balmoral singers and dancers who did a fantastic job despite increasingly unsure footing as it got more choppy.
Diane and I decided that we needed our beauty sleep much more than we needed the late evening's entertainment so I'm now in my cabin getting this finished.

Tomorrow is another cruising day as we head back to Southampton and I need to start thinking about packing.  So sad but all good things come to an end and it'd been the most amazing time.  I hope you have also had a lovely day, whatever you have done.
I'll set this to go live tomorrow early morning!