Sea days have become my favourites!

It seems strange to me that after 3 cruises where the ports were the main reason for being there, I am now understanding what people mean when they say they cruise for the ships.

I know I have said it before but this ship is just amazing!

We feel like we are running out of time because we haven't experienced everything on this ship but at the same time we have been going non stop since the weeks leading up to the wedding and now we are getting tired!

I was looking forward to another sea day as we have only managed to have lunch in the MDR twice this whole trip. I have mentioned the salad bar that is set up in the MDR for lunch before and I was craving another one of these amazing salads and the all you can eat fresh prawns with RCI's spicy cocktail sauce. This sauce is soooo yummy with a hint of horseradish, much better than the ordinary cocktail sauce that I make at home.

Anyway after the “sleeping in and needing to have breakfast at the Windjammer” debacle, we decided that we would set an alarm for the mornings and wake up no later than 8.30am for the remainder of the cruise. This got us into the dining room and with our breakfast ordered before the cutoff of 9.30am.

We got chatting to a great group and ended up staying in the dining room talking until we noticed the tables being set for lunch around us!

After our leisurely breakfast we went up to the mini golf range for a rematch, we managed to tie this one!

This was our last chance to have a go at the rock climbing wall but we just weren't feeling it this morning and decided we would try and come back for the afternoon session ;)

A bit of slobbing around and we were suddenly at lunch time again!

I finally manage to get the amazing MDR salad with prawns while Nathan branched out and ordered something from the menu and for a change I even got dessert :) After all we only have one more day here even though there are two sleeps :(

After lunch Nathan wanted to go and check out the Blackjack tournaments. While he doesn't play he is fascinated with the game and even looked at lessons while we were on the ship.

Nothing bores me more so I took the opportunity to go to the cabin and catch up on some blogging. We had been so busy and I was worried that I would start forgetting things if I didn't get them written down!

Nathan came back to the cabin around the time I was finishing up so I made a quick trip to Windjammer to get a stock of flavoured waters and then we decided to watch a movie and nap until dinner. Shame about the rock climbing wall but if we really want to do it I suppose well have to go back! ;)

Dinner felt a bit sad as we knew that it was our 2^nd last meal. Michael was in fine form and brought us an even bigger plate of vegies than usual and Elizabeth was pretty heavy handed with the wine top ups. We chatted to our neighbours again, it was nice to be seated near the same people but not have to share a table and make small talk if we didn't want to.

Dinner was followed by another show in the Savoy Theatre and tonight RCI dished up it's first dud!

Now the magicians were pretty lame but we managed to stay for the whole show, this time after squirming for 15 minutes I couldn't stand it any longer and told Nathan we were leaving! He got up with relief and as we were walking out we looked behind us to see we had started an exodus!

I can't say that the act was bad but she was definitely geared to the Asian demographic on the ship. RCI had expected that the greatest percentage of guests would be Asian and had booked one of their favourite entertainers. When it turned out that the greatest percentage were Australians a few changes were made but this woman stayed. I'm sure her show would have been fantastic if we could have understood Chinese!

Not to worry, on to other things!

I had heard a lot of things about a show called Quest that RCI have on every cruise. I had read that there were usually people that did very embarrassing things to win on this show. The cruise director, Jimmy Rhodes, had reminded everyone earlier that he was hosting Quest later in the night and telling us we shouldn't miss it so Nathan and I went along to watch. Or so we thought ;)

They say what happens at Quest, stays at Quest and seriously, after being there I can see how some people would not want anyone to know the things they do! It was freaking hilarious and we loved every minute!

We were seated in Studio B, where the ice skating rink is and a timber floor had been laid over the ice as a stage.

First Jimmy separated the audience into teams, we fell into Team 3. He then asked for a male and female from each team to come up and be the Captains. Of course Nathan and I did not volunteer as we were determined to just be spectators.

The rules of Quest are easy. Jimmy tells the Captains they must come to him with an item and their team number. First item...a bobby pin...people are scrambling through their hair and handbags, throw the pin at the captain who races up to Jimmy with item and team number in hand...points are awarded to each team depending on the order they get to Jimmy (there are 5 teams). Another item, today's Compass, another item, a tissue, a man wearing lipstick and so on. Music is playing and teams can get extra points if they jump up, start cheering and clapping and making as much noise as possible every time Jimmy yells the words 'we're having a breakout!'. Nathan is the first person to hear the call and flies out of his seat, the rest of our team follow his lead and we win the first 10 bonus points!

It starts to get harder! A piercing that is not in an ear, a girl from our team runs down and flashes her bellybutton while the captain waves our team number. One of the other teams hasn't got a single person that has a body piercing so the captain runs over and spreads her legs indicating she can show one if he wants...Jimmy declines quickly and awards her points! It was fake but caused hysterics!

Two socks, both with holes in them! Ewww...

A female with a tattoo I could have done but there was another girl closer to the edge of the stage so I didn't have to. A female doing splits had a woman from our team run down and do them, she was 68 years old! Amazing!

By now Nathan and I have forgotten we are spectators and we are having a ball, our friends Val and Sal were right behind us and Sal had managed to win our team points by ripping off his belt and getting it to the captain in time to win that item.

Next call was for 2 bras! One woman threw her bra to the captain and I looked around to see where the other was coming from...nope...no one was answering this call...f&%k...ripped off my bra and threw it to the captain and we managed 2^nd on that one!

The final call was for a man, wearing nothing but underpants, a womans bra, high heels and lipstick...by then everyone has lost it and the guys are hamming it up big time.

Our team came third overall and I thought I was going to lose my voice from the cheering and singing. If you ever go on RCI, do yourself a favour and go to Quest, such a fun night!

We go back to our cabin exhausted but still laughing, we need to get some sleep as it's after midnight and we dock in Jeju, South Korea at 6am tomorrow!