Gismo Queen and her King

There's something lovely about the people on this cruise. It could be because they are all here for the same reason and they all want to have a good time, but everyone is so friendly and they just want to have a good time. Everytime we sit down somewhere, we get chatting to new people and they are all lovely. It really does contribute to the great vibe.

Again, we weren't in a hurry to get up this morning so it was after 9am before we made it to the main dining room for breakfast. We lingered over fruit while chatting to some of our dining companions before having a bit of a walk, some reading time and then we headed to the main theatre for the matinee performances of the Bushwhackers and Simply Bushed. We've got our favourite seat in the theatre now and we've worked out you have to get anywhere early if you want a decent seat so we were seated by 11:30am and even I thought that was too early for cocktails so we settled for some soft drinks. The show started at 12pm and was good value, with both bands putting a lot of effort into their performances. As this show didn't finish until 1:30pm - by which time the main dining room is closed - we all headed upstairs to the buffet. So I found myself chatting to one of the guys from the Bushwhackers at the pizza bar (he plays guitar and is actually the son of one of the frontmen) and sure enough, the rest of the band were in the restauarnt too.

Back to getting in early, we headed down to one of the pubs for the 3pm show, finding seats by 2:30pm. The Viper Creek Band were very popular and had plenty of people up dancing, because people just want to have a good time. This pub is right at the back of the ship so we saw the rain come in and lash down on the back windows. The weather really hasn't been too good so far.

That show went to 4:30pm so we headed back to the room afterwards, for a bit of reading and a change of clothes before we headed back to our favourite seats in the main theatre (again, early) for the 6pm show of McCalister Kemp. They were quite loud and rock-y which Greg didn't like so much. But we bopped along until they finished at 7:30pm and then headed upstairs as we had a reservation at the speciality Japanese restaurant. The food was divine and we had a lovely young man serving us. The staff on this ship really know about customer service and go to every length to provide a very high standard of service.

We lingered over champers there before heading back down to the casino. I'd left my guide for the night's entertainment in our room so we decided to head back to the room instead. Tomorrow we get to visit land again, which will be quite welcome as the seas were quite high today.