Saturday - New Years Eve - At Sea

New Years Eve, and all the action was on the Lido deck.

Lido, I think, is Italian for beach, Which is why the pool deck on so many cruise ships are named Lido

But, the first thing for the day was Captain Marek Zoll, with ask the Captain question's, with a huge audience in the big theatre and a slide show about how the ship works. Here is the Captain above with the cruise director, the lovely Daniel. Apparently the ships currently on cruise control,  and those first couple of sea days weren't rough at all, not compared to some of the seas the Captain has sailed on.

Apparently, it wasn't that rough on the first leg of our voyage, ha ha ha. Not rough for him I suppose.

Those cheeky towel magicians left us a bulldog today!

[Those are my spare pair of  glasses being worn by the dog.  I leave on my bedside table because they are better for reading, than my multi-focal's).

Back to the dining restaurant, with it beautiful glass flower ceiling, and covering two decks. 

Here is the NYE menu,,,

and crab and jumbo shrimp....

Also the Five Spice Duck,

and finally the Chocolate Countdown.

And finally the countdown to midnight back on the deck. Although I wasn't really sure what the time actually was!  Somewhere in between AEDT and NZ time. The clocks on board go back another hour tonight, then we will be back on the same time as home.

Last full day tomorrow.