Day 9

Day 9 – Darwin – Singapore - 24/5/12

Weather – Fine, Sunny, 25C – 28C

Sunrise – 6.59am

Sunset – 6.56pm

Throughout the day Sun Princess maintained a west-north-westerly course through the Timor Sea and the Lombok Basin. At 7pm this evening we entered Lombok Strait passing between Lombok Island on our starboard side and Nusapenida Island on the port side. We transited the Lombok Strait on a northerly course, and passed Bali Island at 9.30pm. After rounding the east coast of Bali we went north-westerly through the Bali Sea and into the Java Sea.

Another sea day = another RELAX day. Which means I wont repeat it, coz by now you know what that means LOL

The highlight of today was our first Cool Cruisers 2012 Lunch. We had 85-90 people n the Regency Dining Room for another yummy lunch. It was great to meet more people properly as we did not get to meet everyone last week at the Meet and Greet. There is still quite a lot of people we have not yet met, or had a chat to, but hey it is only week 2 of 14 !!

I took photos of every table, which I will upload at the first free wi-fi place, hopefully Singapore on Sunday.

The weather is warming up, and a dip in the pool is becoming a daily item now.

Trivia today was Australian Trivia – 10 out of 25 was a poor score you would think, and yeah, not up there , but it was around the average – some very difficult questions. We got off to a flying start thanks to me on the first question – what year did production of Vegemite commence? I just happened to have a Vegemite sachet in my top pocket from breakfast – dont ask why – but there was the answer...do you want to know?...well look on your own Vegemite jar !!!

So we were 1 from 1..great starting ratio, it all came a gutser after that !!!

We were invited to pre-dinner drinks in the Rendezvous Bar, with some lovely people – 6.30pm every day is the go...mark that down !!

We had a choice of after dinner shows tonight. It was either a Comedy Magic show by Stephanie Harper or another Princess production show – Fiesta Latina. We chose the latter..mistake. It was an improvement on last weeks, but the standard was quite a few steps down from previous cruise shows on Sun and Dawn Princess, may be I am getting a bit pedantic, but I dont think so as it seems to be the consensus of those we chat with.