Sunday, November 29 - At Sea - Grey Cup Day!

Another sea day today, following our morning coffee ritual we lounged around the ship, all of us doing our individual "stuff".

One thing we noticed that the "sanitation" procedures seem to be stepped up lately.  This was confirmed by the disappearance of all the individual salt and pepper shakers off the tables.  They were replaced by paper packets of salt and pepper.  Staff were stationed by all of the entrances to the common areas with bags full of hand sanitizer that we had to use, they were persistent.

Diane did a watercolour class today (yes another masterpiece) and I went to a talk about the history and future of the Panama Canal - very interesting. We will be transiting the Panama Canal tomorrow starting about 6:00 AM.

We had booked a special dinner with the group at the Tuscan Grille (2 for 1 special) which is a fine dining style of establishment specializing in Italian cuisine.  I decided on the rib eye steak which was done to perfection.  The meal started with the staff bringing out every appetizer available which was shared among our group, it kept coming and coming, the food was the best since the start of the trip - excellent.

The Grey Cup on the Outdoor Big Screen!

A couple of days ago Doug had spoken to the Cruise Director Sara with regards to having the Grey Cup shown on the big screen TV at the back of the ship.  he said that she would look into it and let us know.  Now, lets face it this cruise is just full of Americans and they love their football.  However, we got news that the Grey Cup would be shown, Thank You Doug!!.  So following dinner we all went back to change and up to Deck 12 to watch the game.  We were surprised to see the number of people there, hmmm there are more Canadians on board than we thought!  We had a really good time and did enjoy watching the game - did not hear any complaints :).

Following the game we all turned in, Panama Canal tomorrow!!