Our last two days aboard the Celebrity Silhouette were packed full of fun and farewells. But this day started with a bang - literally. High seas could really be felt all night as we sailed through a storm in the Bay of Biscaye. The metal ice bucket slid on the metal tray and both crashed to the floor spilling melted ice across the whole of the pathway between bed and bath! Not only did the noise jolt us awake but then I had to wade through icy water to fetch towels to soak it up. Hello six a.m.!
I do not like to leave packing until the last day in fear of missing out on something and Elva followed suit. After the morning talks on Thursday we did most of our gathering and stashing before our trivia time. We did have to see the British Immigration people for a face to face interview. these had assigned times and worked well. We had a 4:00 time so it followed the trivia and the added Broadway trivia. We did very well. Being a little late for the interview worked in our favor as there were only a few people ahead of us so the whole thing took only minutes. In the morning the lines were crazy long.
We finished shopping to use up our OBC as we do not like to leave it with the ship and we had a lot that was non - refundable. For me it worked out because two doctor visits used most of it and that will be reimbursed, hopefully, by the insurance company.
We had lunch in the dining room and dinner too. Making the most of being waited on before we go back to our usual 'self service' at home. The evening entertainment was the best of the three Production Cast performances - LIFE. The songs and dances wove together a story of life going from birth to death to afterlife. Quite nice. There is one girl singer who sings so loud and highly pitched that I hold my ears to tone her down to enjoyable. And Luke, who also was in the Murder Mysteries, has a very nice normal show voice. He looks like he is twelve but really nails songs in a wide range of styles and scales.
The late show Adult entertainment was He Said She Said. A marriage Game type thing. Also fun to watch people embarrass themselves, isn't it. One couple got caught up short. They would often said something like I don't remember them all but yea, two. One time the answers differed and the man blurted out, "What happened to Number Two?" Yep, called out for cheating!
Then came Friday...the last day. We made sure our bills were correct, There were last lectures in both series and we chatted with the guest speakers. A few of the Celebrity Life Activity people hugged me good bye as I bumped into them during the day. Our Steward, Clide, reminded us of how it was his pleasure to serve us for the whole cruise - at least three times! We had rum to finish up so a drink after lunch helped us really enjoy the Salute to Broadway Cabaret show that the cast put on. Can't believe they quoted for inspiration Lin-Manuel Miranda! The big evening performance was an Elton John Tribute. This was followed by a very entertaining Karaoke show. It was called The Voice of Silhouette. Activity hosts had selected three contestants who had participated in the almost daily Karole entertainment. They were each coached by a performer and we saw that video. Then the two men and one lady sang and seriously, the lady muffing the words of Hallelujah as she stood in the shadows was far from the best but lucky for her, she had lots of family traveling and she one. Larry, was very good but Rob, much older and with a broad vocal range down to the deep bass played the audience and sang well. I voted for him.
Morning will come early so we went to bed about 11 with the alarm set for 6:45. At 7:20 Clide was knocking on our door. We didn't have to be out of the cabin until 8:00 and usually you can stall that. But we obliged and went to breakfast about 7:40. I encouraged us to eat in the dining room. We were still there visiting with one couple spending time in London and another continuing to La Havre for a two night fill in cruise and then on to the Baltic route when our tag number, 28, was called. A final potty stop and away we went and beeped off the ship by security for one last time. We collected out bags, tucked in the few overnight things we had needed and left the terminal to begin our new adventure.
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