It will be so sad to lose people in Funchal tomorrow. Five are getting off and four are coming on. I have really enjoyed this crossing and the sea days have been full and time has flown by. The thought of having to get up tomorrow and go ashore is not appealing. More sea days please. I know we will enjoy Funchal once we get ashore, we have wanted to come to Maidera for a long time.

Today an LCT group won trivia and they also gave tokens to second place teams so we did well today. Last night at Kareoke they were giving away tokens with abandon and the LCT group being the primary singers made out well there too.
So the token count is pretty good.

Today they did a great lunch on deck with staff from each country cooking food from their region. It was a nice idea with the Indian staff in their gorgeous saris, the Italian officers cooking pasta and other nationalities with food areas as well. Huge shrimp on the Mexican buffet. It was a little windy but they slowed the ship down to make the conditions nicer.

The weather has been so good and warmer than I anticipated. Although we do lose time in this direction I like this crossing.

Later in the year there are so many nice options for cruises in September and October that are so close to the Fall Crossing. In the early part of the year the Voyager and Mariner are tied up with the World Cruise and South American cruise so for most people all that is available is the Navigator doing the Carribean. So this is a great time to start the year with a 2 for 1 crossing. May look at this again in 2009. I am certainly more inspired by Lamb now with all the sea days.

Okay time to go get ready for yet another meal. Someone has to eat all this food!!!