Thursday, 27 November 2025
Thanksgiving Day at Sea 

Happy Thanksgiving from LFLatSea to all our friends far and near. We are looking forward to a special Thanksgiving Market Dinner in the Colonnade tonight, after 6pm cocktails with my new friends from the trivia team.

But first a recap of our sea days since the last posting on 24 November. Unfortunately, after I wrote the glowing report of friendly seas, the weather has taken a turn and for the past three days the sailing has been a bit rough--very different from the calm Atlantic crossings I have sailed in the spring and late summer. Of course, the waves don't stop any of the activities or any of the meals.

Tuesday's highlights include a special "Galley Market Lunch," at which everyone descends to the Restaurant on Deck 4, chooses a table, and then gets on line to walk through the entire galley/kitchen, choosing from an incredible variety of foods on offer. As we exit from the other end, servers are waiting to take us and our plates to the tables. 

Servers Parade After Lunch in the Restaurant

Tonight we have the last of our five dinners in Solis, the specialty dining venue. I should mention that we have dinner with Anita and Deb most every night. 

As all my readers know quite well by now, we have free French Champagne with dinner every night. In addition, for seemingly no reason at all, the Dining Room Manager, an all-around nice guy from South Africa, gifts us with additional bottles of even higher quality Champagne, including a bottle of Pomery currently cooling in our stateroom refrigerator.

The guest speakers and entertainers have all been terrific. I'm usually worn out before the shows, but tonight we attend a performance by Cassidy Janson, a major star of London's West End. The ship's company, "The Seabourn Six," have been with us since Istanbul and they provide different shows on other nights. And I continue to play team trivia every morning at 11:15. We have also had several time changes as we sail, granting us an extra hour of sleep.

Wednesday's highlights bring another talk about the KGB by Keith Muras, a former British diplomat in the Soviet Union. The waves continue to lurch us about a bit, but we manage to make it everywhere without falling, although some other passengers have not been as lucky. 

We used our $400. cruise credit (from our travel agent at American Airlines), to pay for a number of bags of laundry ($65. a pop). Since that ran out, I have been doing some laundry in the ship's free laundromat. And speaking of American Airlines, I have received over 50,000 miles for booking the cruise through them.

Thursday afternoon:  Thankfully, the sun is shining and the sea is calm again as we sail toward our landing in Bermuda tomorrow afternoon. But another storm is brewing up and we will not be able to dock in the city of Hamilton, as originally planned. Instead, we will dock at the Royal Naval Dockyards at the very western end of Bermuda. There will be transportation to other parts of the nation. Will and I have stopped at the Dockyards several times on other transatlantic voyages. We spend the night in Bermuda and the weather is supposed to improve before we leave on Saturday afternoon.

LFLatSea will be back after we leave Bermuda.