Rolled out of bed at 8 o'clock looking forward to a quiet day at sea. No rush to go anywhere so I popped up to the Island Café to bring a couple of coffees back to the stateroom. The weather was a bit overcast, but relatively warm.

      

Lee met up with the other ladies at 10:00 for the Culinary Spectacular in the Celebrity Theatre. Five chefs from the ship along with five helpers from the audience had a cook-off on stage. The lamb dish and the worst helper won. Go figure.

After Lee returned from her event, we went up for breakfast then back down to our room for a couple of hours of R&R. Gee, where did the time go? Time for lunch at 2:00, so away we went again. We met with the rest of the crew upstairs on Deck 11 and settled for a quick burger from the Outside Grill by the pool.

When lunch was done, Laverne and Carole organized a game of Wizard. It's a card game, but don't ask me how it's played or scored. All I know is that at the end of the game I won with 240 points and LeVerne came in a close second with 230.

As it was now nearing 5:00, we shut down the card game and all trooped up to the forward top deck to witness our return passage under the Great Belt Bridge. While waiting for this event, two Danish military jets zipped by our ship at a height close to the deck we were standing on. One jet actually buzzed the ship. Pretty darned exciting. And ten minutes from passing under the bridge it started to rain hard, the first real rain of the cruise. A few of our hardier cruise buddies toughed it out on the open deck while the smart cruise buddies retreated to our cabin veranda to watch as we sailed under the bridge.

  

The Great Belt Fixed Link is the fixed link between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen across the Great Belt strait. It consists of a road suspension bridge (Eastern Bridge) and railway tunnel between Zealand and the islet Sprogø, as well as a box girder bridge (Western Bridge) between Sprogø and Funen.

    

Construction on the Great Belt Fixed Link commenced in 1988. In 1991, Finland sued Denmark as Finnish-built mobile offshore drilling units would have been unable to pass beneath the bridge. However, when the Prime Minister of Denmark promised that the Finn's would get financial compensations to change the construction methods of offshore drilling units to a bridge-friendly way, the problem was solved.

The Great Belt Fixed Link replaces the ferries which had been the primary means of crossing Great Belt for more than 100 years and has reduced travel times significantly. Previously taking about an hour by ferry, Great Belt can now be crossed in about 10 minutes. It's a really impressive sight.

  

The rain stopped shortly after we cleared the bridge but it was still heavily overcast. Lee and I spent the next couple of hours with our feet up in the comfort of our stateroom until it was time to get dressed for our last formal dinner of the cruise. Laverne had volunteered to style Lee's hair for the event so Lee went down to their cabin for some sprucing up. While she was gone, I spent my time stuffing myself into my tux and trying to look presentable.

When Lee arrived back and looking good I might add, we went down to the dining room to join our cruise buddies for dinner. Everyone looked great and dinner was excellent. Our waiter Feliciano even managed to score a couple of extra lobster tails for LeVerne and me.

      

For dessert, all of the dining room waiters paraded out from the kitchen bearing Baked Alaska. It was quite the commotion with everyone standing and clapping as the waiters carried the desserts out and presented them to each table.

  

When dinner was done, we all went down to the Celebrity Theatre to watch the revue, "Dance Around The World" preformed by the Celebrity Dancers. After the show was done at 11:45 p.m., it was back down to the Grand Restaurant to view the Late Night Buffet. The vegetable carvings, food presentations and ice sculptures were works of art worth seeing.

      
      

After the viewing, we were all invited to join in the feast but declined. That's the problem when dining at the late seating. We had just finished our lobster dinners an hour and a half earlier and absolutely didn't have an appetite. So, it was back to the cabin and off to bed at 1 a.m.