We have booked a taxi to take us to our hotel for 10am on Sunday and we got a card each to allow us to take our own luggage ashore, rather than use the porters at an allocated time. Everyone is starting to prepare for life ashore without 1000+ servants and officers to navigate their way. Library books have to be read and returned, washing done for the last time.
The passenger choir has been practising hard for weeks and some members have been involved since Southampton. Today was their big performance in the Theatre and it was very enjoyable. There were 40 women and 30 men and the conductor was a member of the professional singing quartet. They learned and sang without written music and only occasionally broke into parts. Thay did a great job on The People's Anthem from Les Miserables and finished with the Rhythm of Life.
At 1pm there was another entertaining performance of ice carving by three of the chefs.
After dinner with Geoff and Joan we played Scrabble and went to hear the comedian Roy Walker, who had been a game show host in U.K. He kept us laughing for 50 minutes. He recalled the good old days when you could tell blonde jokes and Irish jokes. For example ! My Irish father was the first to go ashore on D Day. He got off at Dublin. Paddy had two wooden legs and was housesitting when he accidentally set fire to the house. The fire brigade saved the house but Paddy was burnt to the ground.
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