Day 39 - QM2 Day 4 - Napkin Folding Class

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Rough Seas

Seas are between moderate and rough this morning. Our schedule for today is:
8AM coffee in bed
8.30 to 9.30 formal breakfast
10.00 to 10.45 napkin folding class
11.00 to 12.00 lunch at buffet
12.15 to 1.00 Tango Class
1.30 to 2.00 planetarium show
2.30 to 3.30 lecture
3.00 to 5.00 workout at gym/pool
5.00 to 7.00 movie Good Night and Good Luck
8.30 to 10.00 dinner formal
10.45 to 11.30 show
Considering there’s free food all but about two hours during the wee hours, we really aren’t eating that much. Our dinners are pretty enormous, but breakfast and lunch aren’t.
We’ve gone and looked into the first class only areas, there really aren’t that many. Their cabin’s are really nice based on the pictures we’ve seen, and they get better choices of food, and more individual service, but their spaces aren’t that special. They have a fore deck with a hot tub that’s just a plain deck, our dining room is much nicer. All of the lounges look the same throughout the ship, the only thing that is different is what music is being played in them. Last night we took our bottle of champagne (when we first got onto the ship we had a bottle of white wine and canapés complements of our travel agent, a bottle of champagne because we are stock holders and our cabin steward gave us another bottle of champagne) and were going to sit in the Commodore lounge and drink it, but even though the commodore lounge overlooks the front of the ship they had curtains closed, and there was a bad lounge singer/piano player and they were piping the music throughout the lounge and it had static, so we left and went downstairs to a hallway with windows overlooking the ocean and lounge chairs and drank it there.
We tried for going outside, but it was too cold. We did check for stars, but there were too many clouds in the way.
Napkin folding class was lovely. I was the youngest one there. The lady, the head hostess of the ship, that was teaching it said the activities director tried to get rid of the class but she insisted and gets a full house every time. Napkin folding class is a classic aboard ship.
We skipped Tango class and had formal lunch: Salad, Moroccan stew, chocolate ice cream. Then the planetarium. It may seem silly to see a movie when we’re on the ship since we can watch movies at home, but it’s kind of decadent to go into the theatre and watch it on the big screen and except for Pride and Prejudice all the movies they’ve shown are ones we wanted to see.
There are actually a lot of Brits that are doing the round trip two week vacation on the ship, it seems to be very popular.
German tourists are like schmoos, they are everywhere.
Wendell is really gruvin on the ship thing. He’s loving all the good food. Last night they gave everyone a folder with copies of the menus, he was all over that. After dinner he hung out in the cigar lounge and I went to the big show which had a surprisingly big turn out.
Everyone on the ship, even in steerage, are all on the higher end of income and education. It’s amazing how many people that are non-Americans know so much about our presidents. Not just the current ones but the past ones also. There was an Asian guy in the library in South Hampton that was talking about our presidents and knew their politics, and the order they came in, which is more than I knew.
I found out that Cunard was offering the round trip from Southampton for 850.00 pounds which is a real deal. There’s 175 couples doing the round trip this crossing.

Napkin Folding Class

This is where Hobbit gets in touch with the "Newly Wed and Nearly Dead." Napkin Folding Class is a transatlantic crossing classic - they've been doing it since the 1920s. The Cruise Director, Ray, has wanted to kill it off for years but it's so popular that he can't.
The photo below shows Hobbit amigst a sea of new brides and blue hair - mostly blue hair.

The Newly Wed And The Nearly Dead

Samples of Napkin Folding

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