Even though I was up several times during the night, I still slept better than the night before. Since it was a sea day, my daughter J and I planned to sleep in. My husband K got up early, as usual, and went to the gym.
I got up at 8:12, just a few minutes before the alarm. When J arrived at 9, she had found her birthday cards and thanked me. I gave her some pins as a gift, although she had the rest of them waiting at her place to be opened after we get back.
When we got to the Lido deck for breakfast at 9:11, it was mostly cloudy outside. K joined us and I ordered a mimosa, because why not.
At 11:15, we went to Effy for today's tag. Then, we went to the cabin to work on today's crossword. But, not for too long, because they were having Cake Me Away up on the Lido deck. So many cakes! We had Carrot (for K), Concorde, Milli Crepe, Chocolate Fudge, Celebration, Heaven and Hell, and, as we were eating, they brought J a birthday cake! We figured that when the guy swiped her card for her Coke, it came up on the screen.
While we were eating, the captain, who must have heard of all the complaints about the tenders yesterday, came on the intercom and said the pilot had to stay aboard all day yesterday to the the wind. (Someone noted that the tug boat had held us steady out in front all day. I could see it in my photos). He said that the wind was so bad sometimes, that only one boat could go back and forth. K has looked at the upcoming trips coming here and they are not docking at Edinburgh at all. Of course, we didn't really dock.
This was our last day aboard. So, at 1, we all went to our cabins to pack. Not fun, but necessary. While we were there, I noticed wind turbines and what looked like a converter like the one we saw in Haugesund out there in the North Sea.
At 2:05, J and I went up to wait for the 2:30 watercolor class. She let everyone in at 2:25. at 2:30. I enjoyed a virgin mai tai during the class.
At 3:20, we were back in our cabins and I was packing again. Sigh. I knew it was overweight.
We were changed for dinner by the time J arrived at 5:15. We were at our free upgrade dinner at Tamarind at 5:30.
Instead of a bowl of bread, we were brought very light rice creations and sauces.
as for drinks, K got his usual Chateau Smith cabernet. J got a virgin mai tai and I tried a nich cucumber mojito.
We picked foods we were all willing to share. For appetizers, there were lobster and shrimp potstickers, satay sampler, Thai citrus scallops.
The main courses were sweet and sour vegetable tempura, crispy duck, ginger-chili-glazed, and Mongolian barbecue lamb chop. I failed, somehow, to get a photo of the last one. We had brown rice, Dungeness crab fried rice, oyster shitake mushrooms as side dishes.
Asian cuisine isn't exactly known for dessert. So, the desserts we had were unusual: Yuzu cheesecake; passion fruit cloud; and selection of house-made sorbets- lemon-basil, yuzu, and lychee.
Yela, our waitress, surprised J with yet another birthday cake. Once again, it had to have popped up when her card was scanned for the drink.
J went off to her cabin, having enjoyed her birthday. K went to the Dance Show, while I went to the cabin to convince the new stuff to fit in the suitcase.
Around 8:46, I went out and got nice photos of the sunset over the North Sea, the last of the trip.
We had the big suitcases ready to go outside of the door just before midnight and they were quickly whisked away.
My phone logged 3,344 steps today for 1.3 miles. It was going to be a short night.
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