Australia Edition - Day 20 - The End is Nigh
It’s been almost a week since Hobbiton and a lot has happened, so I’ll try to catch everyone up without being too verbose. (Future Bill: I was very verbose.) The day after we were in Tauranga, the cruise headed to the Bay of Islands. This was a day where we were anchored in the bay and you had to tender in. There were no excursions available from the ship, and we couldn’t really find any excursions that we wanted to do through 3rd parties, so we thought maybe we’ll just get off the shop and walk around town where the tenders drop you off. We didn’t end up getting off the ship. The waters were rough, the tenders were tiny, and Valerie turned green just looking at them. We decided to have a chill day on the ship and enjoy the last bit of quiet before we left New Zealand and headed back to Sydney. We did play some Bananagrams, I forgot to write down the daily scores, but the final score for the cruise was Bill 7, Valerie 5. While playing Bananagrams, something interesting happened. I beca...