13TH AUGUST AT SEA TO KRISTIANSUND NORWAY

13t AUGUST AT SEA HEADING BACK  TO KRISTIANSUND NORWAY

This am pilates and its bloody hard lifting one leg up whilst the ship is moving, it is quite a feat but  and oh the relief after we have finished!!

I went to the lecture on Greenland and it was interesting but as usual have a little kip

Today we had lunch at the bar for Italian ! OMG first time I have had pasta for over 2 years and I wont be having it again for another 2 years! It was great but the waist line is spreading and I am thinking of all the hard work I have to do on my return to shift what Im sure I have put on!!

Have a fun chat with the Captain about dead bodies and my Antarctica trip I did, he is a great fun interesting Italian with a twinkle in his eye!!

The view from our cabin whilst cruising is delightful, fiords passing us by

After lunch at 3.00p.m its caviar  in our stateroom with Antonio the Dining Manager, he is also very interesting and we had a lovely hour laughing and chatting with him getting the gossip!

Well tonight is our surprise cocktails with Gianni so wonder where it will be!!!

We meet at 6.45 in reception with about another 15 guests and are welcomed by Jimmy and Gianni, we are special guests and so for a treat have organized for us to have cocktails down in the galley provisions storage area! Hey this was fun and we had fabulous pink French champagne, prosciutto and parmesan cheese amongst other canapesWe go into the store rooms and check it all out. Pretty amazing, the food and area they have! As it is a small space we start chatting to Michael and Maureen Wilson from Melbourne, she has a close friend who is a neighbor of mine a few houses away!!

 Now Maureen called this a floating nursing home!! So yes Im on the mark again and she stole my line from my Discovery trip which was “One few over the Cuckoos nest meets floating nursing home!! 

The only difference is that there are no “cuckoo nest “people on board!!!

We chat to Gianni who now calls us Anti social!!! Yes we are I reply don’t need any more new friends!

Maureen did ask us to join them for dinner and we politely declined as we had been drinking from lunch time didn’t need any more food and wanted to hit the sack with a movie!! So boring!! But she did agree about dining with  others as recalled a shocking night they had with some Americans, so since that they just have dinner with their friends! So she did understand!!

After the cocktails we head to the library to get a couple of movies and bump into Manchu. He is so gorgeous and we organize to have drinks tomorrow night! As he said we  have been meaning to have a drink together since kayaking and now 2 nights to go!!

I mention about his parents living in HK and Mum in Japan, perfect marriage he says!! They are such an elegant couple!

Head off to bed and yes another invitation from Gianni for formal dinner tomorrow night!

Oh well feel well have to do it as he has been so good to us! But I do want to ask how many are going???? I think I know probably 8!! He knows we are anti social too!!!!

Well see tomorrow!!!