World Cruise Day 88/152 - Sea Day time warp - let's mix some drinks

Cruise day: 88/152

Ports days: 35
Sea days: 53
Countries: 15
Continents: 4
Ports: 25

After seven event-packed days in port, today, we enjoyed a well-deserved sea day...but...as a means to not make it as relaxing as it could be, we lost an hour again last night, jumping to UTC+2 to get us in line with Greek time - that's six hours ahead of the U.S. east coast.  Let's do the Time Warp again...

So, with an hour less sleep, we awoke to a sea day schedule with bridge and trivia.  Today's trivia efforts produced results!  Cruise consultant Hamed with the assistance of assistant cruise director, Sarah-Leanne, ran trivia in the form of Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader.

It was all good fun, and we tied for second with 13/15 correct.  Our failing grades:

• What is the most populous city in the world?
• We took country population into account and guessed Beijing.  We were wrong - it's Tokyo.
• In this sentence:
     Mary is a very good drummer.
  What part of speech is the word very?
• We said, Modifier - as it turns out, an adverb can modify a verb, as well as modifying an adjective or adverb, so, "adverb" is the correct answer

We tied, so it came down to a tie-breaker:

• How many elements are in the periodic table?
• We knew it was 118 and we scored the points

For what it's worth, we also knew the correct answer to the second, but unnecessary tie-breaker question:

• How many bones are in the human body?
• 206

Hamed also featured a very Hamed-style question, just for laughs:

If quizzes are quizzical, then tests are...?

Lunch featured Italian specialties and was lovely. 

This morning and afternoon, we enjoyed watching the Albanian and Greek coastlines off our balcony.

One thing that Viking really promotes is art.  Art is on display all over the ship. This includes the hallways outside staterooms where large photographs are displayed.  Each has a number and the Viking app on your phone will play descriptions of each piece if you are interested.  It creates a nice environment - most of the time.

Here's the view when we open our door.

Nice, right?  Very nautical and peaceful.

Here's another pleasant view.

This would be easy on the eyes every day.

But...can you imagine opening your door to this face every day?  Wow!

As enjoyable as the port-side view was today, the starboard-side sunset tonight was a treat.

After a nice dinner, we attended another mixology class.  Tonight, we were putting together cocktails.  Here I am taking on a lavender citrus martini.

It was good, but no match for my Vanilla-Limoncello-Pineapple martini.  For the record:

• 2 parts vanilla vodka
• 1 part Limoncello
• 1 part pineapple juice
• 1/2 part lime juice (lemon will also do)
• 1/2 part simple syrup
• shake over ice until blended
• strain into a sugar-rimmed martini glass
• enjoy often

Unfortunately, Viking does not carry vanilla vodka, so I haven't had one for more than 88 days now.  Oh well. I'm surviving just fine.

Tomorrow, we port in Katakolon, Greece, and will be touring ancient Olympia.