World Cruise Day 100/152 - Sea Day - Triple digits - wow!

Cruise day: 100/152

Ports days: 42
Sea days: 58
Countries: 16
Continents: 5
Ports: 30

Day 100.  Wow.  We have been on this ship for 100 consecutive days. That means that for us, staying on for the Viking Homelands cruise, we have only 52 more days to go.  Partway through today, our cruise is officially 2/3 over.  Again, wow.  Even more amazingly, after spending 100 days together essentially 24-hours each day, we still like each other!  FIngers crossed for the next 52.

If you look at the stats above, we're still heavy on sea days at 58 compared to only 42 port days.  But, for the remaining 52 days, we will be at sea for only 13 days and be in port for 39. That will put us at 81 port days and 71 sea days when all is said and done.

It is amazing to me to reflect on what we've seen and where we've been so far.  Five of the seven continents, 16 different countries, and 30 different ports with a lot more packed into this last 1/3 of our trip.  We will be whipped and ready to head home with all that port-heavy travel.

We took advantage of today's sea day with continuing bridge lessons.  We ventured into the territory of competitive bidding and that certainly changes the flavor of the game.  We played for an extra hour with our partners as well before once again, just missing out on the points in trivia.  Today was a Name That Tune trivia hosted by Cruise Consultant Hamed.  He was a stickler for details as we have to name the title and artist exactly for each song.  So, little things like Satisfaction by Rolling Stones cost us 1/2 point as it is The Rolling Stones.  The same was true for California Dreaming by The Mamas and Papas since it is The Mamas and The Papas.  And almost nobody in the room for Rasputin by Boney M.

We did more reading in the afternoon and Arlona went and walked on deck 2.  We went up early for dinner and enjoyed time out back on the Aquavit deck with my special martini, compliments of the beverage team that infused vanilla vodka for me. Arlona prefers it on the rocks and I prefer it straight up.

Arlona, staring off toward the back of the ship

We enjoyed dinner with friends and of course some dessert.

So this wraps up day #100 for us.  We are excited for the next 52 and a whole slew of amazing places coming. This includes Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, more stops in Greece, Italy and Spain, Monaco, Portugal, England, and then on to the Viking Homelands.

Tomorrow, we will be in port in Aqaba, Jordan.  We will be traveling to Petra tomorrow and then touring Aqaba on Monday.  Tomorrow will be a long day, so this will be a short blog.  Expect a bunch of photos, and probably not much commentary in tomorrow's blog as we will be getting back to the ship late.