15th Tragedy - Sacked!!

Friday 15^th Tragedy - Sacked!!

This is our last sea day and tomorrow at Copenhagen will be our last full day. Home in 8 days.

Aptly, we have been thinking of re-enacting our triumphal performance of I still Call Australia Home in the Talent Show tonight. We both have the flu/fever and Bernadette is probably even worse. We decided we would go along to the rehearsal and see if we could find any more Aussies. The staff are very keen for us to give it a go – maybe they don’t have many others but certainly they have said that they would like us to be in it because we have been so much part of everything else. They had made it plain that they imagined us having a go at the Perfect Couple show last night – maybe if we weren’t sick we might.

There were only 4 Aussies at the rehearsal but the staff said they would come and join in so we went up and told the band what we had in mind. They had never heard of Peter Allen but they said they would lay down a waltz just to give us something to keep in time. One other lady came up with us (after J was scraped off her chair by most of the entertainers) and Bernie’s mum came up too.

We had one run through it, at which stage the band said yes that’s great – just lose the man. Aaaaargh!! Sacked!! I shuffled to the edge of the stage, pinched my nose and ignominiously took the plunge. The three girls settled into the song, leaving out verse 3 because the tune changes and the band didnt get it. It sounded really good and we may well get some more singers this evening. The others who were there said they would tell their friends. Apparently some travel agent in Bunbury organised 30 people for this cruise.

Now we have a rest for an hour until the grand finale of the cumulative quiz. Later – further Tragedy . . . they came up with some awesome questions that we had no idea about. The redhead’s team knew which German city was called the city of 7 towers (Lubeck . . yes exactly) and also knew that the Tower of London is guarded by ravens. We should have remembered that Nobel discovered dynamite and although we were awake to Rooseveldt dying before the end of the war, we didn’t know that Truman was next. J weighed in with a couple of her specialities – the Beatles broke up in 1970 and Disney’s first feature film was Snow White + 7 dwarfs. But the redhead won the MSC throw rugs by 1 point.

We are going to do the buffet again tonight – hopefully be well for a proper dinner tomorrow. We spent a lot of time in cabin watching tv today and it is remarkable that the news and feature stories are all about the Greek election and international finance. The US election rated a mention and we were quite surprised when somebody referred to the Olympics which start in 28 days.

I wonder just what options the Greeks think they have? It seems that the leftist loonies are promising to scrap the austerity measures and return to the good old days of the Long Siesta.  Of course they are going to vote for that – but it isn’t a realistic outcome. Far more likely they will end up losing the Euro subsidies and being adrift on their own. A bit like the Greens in Australia who believe that they have saved the Barrier Reef and the Murray-Darling basin. Democracy is fine as long as the voters understand the alternatives and don’t just opt for the charlatans promising them the biggest handouts.

The talent show went very well -  we had about 9 on stage and a large Aussie flag. Somebody took photos and we won participation medals.

Grand buffet......

Reminds me of Lady Gaga for some reason