Tuesday, 28 October 2026

At Sea on Seabourn's Quest

So far it is smooth sailing as we make our way across the North Atlantic. The weather has been quite warm, in the mid to upper 70s, but tomorrow promises to be a little cooler.

This morning I enjoy a leisurely room service breakfast with a western omelette and all the other usual breakfast accompaniments. The waiter brings the tray at my selected time; spreads a white tablecloth over the large table facing out toward my balcony, and pours my first cup of coffee.

There is no clean up so at 11am I head to the first session of Team Trivia. This is an enormously popular activity. My readers may recall that I was an avid trivia player during the transatlantic portion at the end of our 37-day cruise last fall. This morning, as I enter the trivia location, magically, Bob and Amanda Pillsbury, a lovely couple I met playing trivia on that previous cruise, welcome me to join their team again for the next two weeks. You may also remember, or you can link back to last November at the bottom of the page, the Pillsburys invited Will and me to a Thanksgiving cocktail party in their very large suite.

After all the brain work of trivia, I head out to the patio cafe on deck 8 to enjoy pizza and salad in the warm sunshine. 

Back in my stateroom I decide it is time to rearrange all the draws into which I haphazardly dumped every thing when I emptied my suitcase. And, lo, I am able to find some things that I thought were lost.

Tonight is one of the two formal nights on the cruise, so I opt for a more casual dinner in the Colonnade:  pumpkin soup, pan-fried fillet of sole with root vegetables, and chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream and warm fruit. Of course, I also enjoy multiple glasses of champagne.

Then, of course, I’m ready to end another day and another blog.