Actually slept reasonably well for a change. Slept through til about 7am.
Went and took a photo of the pool in the Canyon Ranch spa before it opened so there wouldn't be anyone there, although they yelled NO VIDEO at me, even though THERE WAS NOONE THERE. Le sigh.
Canyon Ranch Spa pool
Grabbed a bread roll and came back to the room.
View from our balcony on the way back to New York
Calm seas on the North Atlantic
Went and had a look at the jigsaw situation. There was a new one going - a collage of ocean liners, mostly Cunard, which had had the edge done and the pieces turned over but not much done. So worked on that for a while. At 9:00 I went round the corner and picked up a planetarium ticket. Then continued on with the jigsaw.
At 10:00 went to Dr Fred Brody's next talk on nostalgia - Your good old days - memorable? magical? or mythical? This wasn't as good as the other two, but wasn't too bad.
Then back to the jigsaw where dude from yesterday was working on it. And we finished it by lunch time :)
Ocean liners jigsaw
Had lunch with the sweetie, a fairly small lunch because white chocolate fountain!
Headed down to the planetarium only to find they'd been cancelled due a "technical fault". Doh.
Came back to the room (via a bit of a sit down at the Pavilion) and we watched New Years Eve, basically a rip off of Love Actually. It started off a bit dumb but got better.
Read for a while, and watched the sunset on the balcony, with Henkell.
Drinking champagne at sunset on our balcony
Drinking champagne at sunset on our balcony
North Atlantic at sunset
Sunset over the North Atlantic
Then to dinner. Usual affair, too much food heh.
Probably lobster bisque with aged cognac that I had for entrée
Grilled Maine native lobster, creamed spinach, potato royal and newburg sauce I think I had for mains
Fresh raspberry and lemon dacquoise with lemon ice that I had for dessert
After dinner we went to the Rhythm of the Night show which was pretty good.
Rhythm of the Night at the Royal Court Theatre
Rhythm of the Night at the Royal Court Theatre
Rhythm of the Night at the Royal Court Theatre
Kaz in Roaring 20s dress in the Clarendon Fine Art Gallery
The sweetie went to bed and Helen and I went to the Chart Room for a while. Then we met up with Bryan and Jan in the Queens Room for a while. This is where I got pretty upset with Cunard. They had a massive champagne glass tower people were pouring champagne into. But. At the end of it all they took all the glasses away and tipped them down the sink.
!!
Such a waste. Their excuse for not sharing: it's "warm and flat". Le sigh.
Champagne tower in the Queens Room
Kaz pouring champagne into the champagne tower
All this champagne was WASTED by Cunard
Then kicked on for a while at G32 with Helen. Pretty late night.
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