After Darwin, we had two days at sea - our days were filled with trivia, game shows, line dancing and eating, eating and more eating. One of the game shows was called 'Famous Faces' and I didn't think that I would know many of them since I am unfamiliar with many of the famous celebrities today. However, I was quite surprised that our team knew 18/21 of them and we ended up coming in first - our prize: another Princess water bottle.
Our next port of call was Port Douglas. Dad and I had already been to this city, having driven up to it when Dad was teaching in Cairns late last year. We decided that we would just get off the ship and walk up and down the main street which looked like it had some cute shops on it when we had driven along it last year. It turned out that there wasn't really much to see in the shops and the humidity was a killer, so we only stayed there for about 90 minutes.
The next day, a day at sea, we attended our first art auction. I had seen a print of two giraffes which I loved and wanted to see if I could get them cheaper at this auction than it had gone for at the last auction. As it turned out, every painting auctioned off had a starting price for it and if no-one bid for it at that price, the print/painting was taken away. We stayed at the auction for about fifteen minutes to see how it worked, but I didn't like any of the other prints. I still couldn't decide if I wanted to spend the money to buy the giraffe print, but since I could buy it up until the last night of the cruise for the same price as it went for in the first auction, I kept thinking about it all week. I had until 9pm on the final night of the cruise to make up my mind - at 8:50pm, I FINALLY decided to make the purchase. Now, I have to wait ages for it to be shipped from the States. I can't wait for it to get here, get it framed and put it up somewhere in our home. The artist who painted it is Donna Sharam.
We took part in all of the trivia and game shows the rest of this week, but were not fortunate enough to win any more - of course, we told people that since we had already won four prizes, we thought it only fair for us to let others have a chance of winning one of the cheap prizes.
We also saw a few more shows this week which included the Princess Singers and Dancers performing 'Sweet Soul Music' and 'Ye Old Pub Night' - those shows were good - the lead male singer was fabulous, but the lead female singer not so much. We also saw a singer called Chantelle Delaney who has a terrific voice and had a fun show, too and then Tim Ellis who was a magician - how on earth he did some of those tricks, which were amazing, we have no idea. The last show, the 'International Crew Show' was a talent show featuring members of the crew who were chosen from an onboard 'Australian Idol' kind of competition. The performers were all so talented and received loud cheers and applause from the audience. All of the singers came dressed in their work uniforms as they were in the middle of their shifts when it was their turn to perform. The Cruise Director's staff also performed a couple of short skits which were funny.
We were very sad to have to get off the ship this morning - it was a truly wonderful cruise and we are already looking forward to our next one in a year from now. Right now, we are thinking of taking a cruise to Fiji.
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