30. The Last Day of the Cruise

Friday, 23 NOV 2012

Yesterday afternoon we left Hobart, Tasmania bound for Sydney. Today we are at sea all day and arrive in Sydney early Saturday morning and disembark the MS Volendam. Yesterday evening they served us a traditional American turkey and dressing Thanksgiving dinner, complete with pumpkin pie. The dinner was excellent, but for pumpkin pie I will stick with the excellent traditional recipe on the large Libby can of pumpkin.

Today all of the disembarking passengers (the others are continuing on to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other horribly hot humid places) gathered in the main theater for detailed instructions on final procedures. Our very talented cruise director Ms. Tamryn Hurly gave us her list of the top ten funniest questions she and other staff have been asked.

On a recent Alaskan cruise they had a park ranger on board to give commentary as they sailed amongst the glaciers. He was explaining that the glaciers look blue because they absorb every color but blue. A lady asked, "Excuse me sir. What color is Butt Blue?" He smoothly replied that it is the color of your butt if you sit on a glacier.

There was a gentleman standing on the landing of the staircase, looking confused. He asked, "Do these stairs go up or down?"

"What do you do with the ice carvings after they melt?"

"Is the water in the toilet salt or fresh?" Tam replied that she didn't know, and she didn't really want to know, for two reasons: number one and number two!

A lady stopped by the spa and asked, "How small does my face have to be for the 'mini facial' special?"

An elderly American couple were out on the open deck one night looking up at the stars, and the lady was overheard asking her husband, "Honey, do you think that's the same moon we see back home?"

A lady asked the photo manager, "How do I know which photos are mine?" Uhhh, they would be the ones with your face in them.

Tam was standing on the pier in Brisbain welcoming guests off the ship and guiding them to their shore excursion departure points. A lady asked, "Excuse me. Where is the bus for the walking tour?"

Do the crew sleep on board?

 

At the end they marshaled practically the entire crew, staff, officers, and cast onstage for a grand finale.

 

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