20241219 Seabourn Sojourn Grand Africa Cruise Day 24/96 - Sea Day

Grand Africa Cruise Trip Day 24/96 - Sea Day Construction

We're officially in the Southern Hemisphere and will remain here until the first week of February 2025. Today is also the 24th day of this 96-day journey which puts us at the 25% mark. As I mentioned, we're at sea and it will take a couple of days to work our way south to Angola. More sea days means more activities. 

Today's art activity was constructing gingerbread houses. To keep things simple, they supplied kits with pre-made house components and decorations. The chef whipped up the required adhesive icing. We filled piping bags and went to town.

Two sets of hands made construction much easier

With all the pre-made pieces, icing use, and some additional candy pieces supplied by the hosts let us exhibit a little creativity

It was a fun project and it was nice to work together on it.

We went up to Deck #9 to watch the guests versus officers water polo match taking place in the pool on Deck #8. There were only a couple of guests so it was mostly officers, but it was still fun to watch them let their hair down and have a little fun themselves.

Next up was trivia - the beginning of a new progressive multi-day game on all the sea days until we reach Cape Town on December 27. It was a bit of a rough start with some obscure questions and dumb mistakes on our part. The losses:

• How many bones are in every shark?
• I was convinced it was zero but I let us talk ourselves out of it with the logic that there are two jaw bones - nope - it was zero - it's all cartilage
• Beyonce's 2008 album was titled "I Am Sasha <what>"?
• We didn't know - it was Fierce
• In what country was Chinese Checkers invented?
• Germany - we guessed the USA
• In Oliver Twist, what was the name of Bill Sikes' dog?
• Amazingly, two teams correctly answered Bull's-eye - we weren't one of them
• Where was the Eiffel Tower originally going to be built?
• Barcelona - wow

This afternoon's art project was watercolor painting. When Arlona came back to the room, she said I would have liked today's subject - bras. Then, she clarified, ze-bras. :-)

The example

Arlona's recreation

Next up was Name That Tune. Out of 20 songs/artist combos for a total of 40 points, we scored a respectable 35 points. Unfortunately, it took 38 points to win, so we took second place. Still, we had fun.

We attended the port talk about Angola before heading up for pre-dinner drinks. The sun put on a short show before disappearing behind a thick cloud cover above the horizon.

After another nice dinner in The Restaraunt, we headed back to the room. These were waiting for us.

Our seventh equator crossing

Tonight, we decided to watch another Christmas Movie in the room. This time, it was It's A Wonderful Life. Tomorrow is another sea day with more fun activities on the calendar.