At about 5am, the door to the balcony started whistling
horribly. It seemed like there was a
huge storm outside. The ship was rocking
a ton. Bob tried to shut the door, but
it was shut. He went back to bed and it
kept up howling. So, he got up again and opened
and then relocked the door. The
whistling stopped! Bob went back to bed
and then again at 5:20am, it opened itself again and the whistling
started. This continued randomly for the
next 3 hours. There clearly is something
wrong with the door and we had a very hard time sleeping.
Outside, it was 61 degrees and sunny. But the waves were quite large. There was lots of sea spray and clearly not
conducive to walking (in fact, the deck was closed). So, we got up and
got ready for the day.
We went down to the 10am talk by Ken Rees on “One Million
Miles – One Thousand Stories.” He shared
a number of stories about his days as a TV reporter. It was a great talk. It started with him trying to get some video
of the Queen Mum and concluded with his reporting at the Oscars. An excellent
talk with lots of laughs.
After that, we decided to skip the talk by Ronald
Marks. The plan was for Cruise Director Rick
to moderate a Q/A to discuss various topics.
We returned to the room and started to do our packing as we disembark
tomorrow (tonight). Our plane from
Lisbon leaves at 5am, so our plan is to leave the ship at about 2:15am. It is going to be a crazy night.
We went up to Tastes for lunch and had pizza. Then we went outside to watch us go under the
bridge and dock in Lisbon. Once we were
cleared for disembarkation, we left and headed to find an ATM and also to do
some geocaching. We couldn’t find three,
but finally found one of them. We left a
travel bug. We wandered around the port
area and walked by the little dock and restaurant area. Our first ATM find would not work, but
eventually we found a second one out on the main street by the docks.
We re-boarded the ship, chatted with the front desk about
our taxi. The plan is for us to call
down to the front desk when we are ready to have someone come and get our
luggage. They will haul it down and the
front desk will help us get off the ship.
We hope that it all goes smoothly, but knowing Crystal, it will be
great.
For dinner tonight, we are going to Prego.
Pictures to follow in part 2.
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