Day 21 Monday 11 March last day on Queen Elizabeth

Well hasn’t those 3 weeks gone quickly.  We’ve had a lovely time on board, met some wonderful people, seen some first class entertainment, danced a lot, and of course, ate far too much delicious food. Last night our Waiters presented us with copies of all our menus from our voyage. Nice touch Cunard.

This morning we awoke to the knock on the door with our room service breakfast being delivered.  Just as well otherwise we would still be asleep! Another bit of a late night after a wonderful Palladium Theatre variety show in the Royal Court Theatre plus the clocks going forward yet another hour before going to bed. We keep getting short changed in sleep….lol.

Today being our last day we’ve had a pretty relaxing day.  I did a bit of shopping this morning at the usual last minute sales.  Generally the shops on board are quite expensive because they have quality stock like Hermes, Polo Ralph Lauren, and many other designer names.  However, they have also had sales on other brands at quite good prices. The perfume prices are quite good remembering that the currency used on this ship is US dollars.

Captain David Henderson gave his last lecture on aircraft and flying this afternoon.  He has presented his lectures extremely well, and has a great sense of humour and has had some wonderful stories to tell about the airline industry. There has been a full house in the Royal Court Theatre for each of his presentations.

Then it was off to the Britannia Restaurant for a lovely leisurely silver service lunch. We had to cancel afternoon tea as we were still too full from lunch…J

We are very proud of ourselves; we have packed everything and pleased to say there’s still kilos and room to spare in the suitcases for more shopping in Las Vegas and L.A. J

There are quite a few people getting off in L.A. including the Captain who has been one of the best we’ve ever had. There are three legs left of this voyage, L.A. to Ft Lauderdale, then to New York and finally back to her home port of Southampton.

I would like to say thank you to all those who followed my blog and I hope you didn’t need an alarm clock to stop you from nodding off whilst reading it all.

Thank you for all the comments, I loved receiving them but unfortunately it wasn’t easy to reply to you.  Next time we cruise with Cunard I note we will have some loyalty so will receive some free internet….yay.  I will upload more photos on here once we’re in our hotel in Las Vegas with some free internet.

Toodlepip for now. J J

Day 20 Sunday 10 March at Sea

There’s definitely a nip in the air outside now as we sail closer to the US mainland. The sun is shining but it doesn’t have a lot of warmth.

We have been quite lazy today doing nothing of great interest just the laundry.  No gossip to report from Roy and the boys in the Laundry apart from one guy telling Roy that there’s a couple at their dinner table who have worn no more than 3 changes of clothes for the past 3 weeks, one formal, one semi-formal and one elegant casual outfit that they have rotated them over the weeks. Hope they at least visited the laundry a few times.

Had a great afternoon in the Royal Court Theatre this afternoon listening to the Queen Elizabeth Passengers choir.  There were over 60 men and women altogether and I must say they sang extremely well.  Tommi the conductor was excellent having given them 9 quite difficult songs to learn, Jerusalem, Rhythm of Life, and a piece from Les Miserable which I can’t remember the name of just to name a few. They had put this altogether in 10 rehearsals each of only one hour.

Right on 3.30pm we happened to be walking passed the Queens Room so had to stop and enjoy afternoon tea yet again. We only finished lunch at 2.00pm, I think we’re getting greedy…lol.

Tonight is our last Formal night and the feature on the menu is Lobster.  I must say that Cunard do offer different seafood selections on their evening menu.