Day 10 - Thursday 25 July - At Sea

Not a lot to report today. Taking it easy at sea. Brunch in the dining room after 9.30am - fillet steak and eggs for Philip, omelette for Alison and a basket of pastries to share!

Debarkation (that's the Carnival word) where we found out how to get off. Carnival allow self-assist which means that we can do our final pack and take our suitcases off the ship with us rather than having to pack and leave them outside the cabin the night before.

Movie at noon - Oz - The Great and Powerful. Enjoyed the movie and there were even some additional sound effects at believe it or not appropriate times. Five metre swell and strong wind today and the lounge where the movie was shown is low in the bow and a couple of times we got the splash of the bow bulb breaking the swell.

Rain on the sea

5 metre swell

Late lunch of pizza after some reading and then back to the cabin where Alison enjoyed a nanna nap and Philip read and took photos of sunset

and then found that Les Miserables was screening on the television so watched that as we got ready for tonight's elegant dinner. Even frog legs on the menu tonight!

Famous Amos our wait team leader in the Empire Dining Room

Show tonight in Pharoah's Theatre was a tribute to New Orleans or the Big Easy and brought back memories of January holiday there including a set of Cafe du Monde and also a tribute to the Mardi Gras parades.

Have now retired and turned our watches back an hour so will get an extra hour's sleep tonight.

Tonight's towel creation - a scorpion