Day 13 was another day at sea and the last day of the Mediterranean cruise. I actually got a shower because Mary put the plastic bags in my chair and we use my chair for the shower. I was feeling a lot better than the day before. We stayed in the house till about 11 o’clock. We watched TV and worked on our computers and did this and that. Around 11 o’clock we decided to go down and play bingo at 1130. We bought a $59 ticket set which was 30 tickets for each game. We went down there and there were a lot of people. We did not win anything. I don’t even think we were close on any of the cards. For lunch we went to the Savoy dining room where we dinner. They were having pub lunch again. Just like the one about a week or so earlier, we both had fish and chips. I had a beer called John Smith. It was very weak almost like a light beer. Our fish and chips were good and we had bread pudding for dessert. I’m surprised at the number of people that take advantage of the pub lunch. The place was filled. After that we decided to head to the art auction. It was the last art auction of the cruise. It started about 130 or so. It was much more subdued than the earlier art auction. I would say the majority of the pieces went without being sold. Mary and I bid on and one a Warner Bros. cartoon seen for $90. I sawed later and it has to do with golf. I asked the salesman if we could look in a different Warner Bros. one for the same cost and he said we could. We will later in the week. As part of the auction the host and auctioneer offers a prize called the Clapper award. He looks for people in the audience that consistently clap and are involved in the proceedings. I was kind of being a pain in the butt by being and clapping and in general making a fool of myself. This worked however. Mary and I won the Clapper award. This means we get to pick a piece of art of a limited selection. I would imagine the piece itself would probably go for hundred bucks or something like that. It’s nothing grand, but it is fun. We are busy in the day-to-day events of our vacation but yet are real-life peeks in every so often. There is a hurricane off the coast of Florida – called Dorian. Obviously there’s not much we can do about it. We did find a station on the ship TV that discussed the hurricane. We received a text from Linda and Tom something about sandbagging. We both wondered what in the world are they sandbagging. I guess time will tell. After the art auction we walked back to the picture display area. We picked up a boatload of pictures from the night before. There was one that was missing that we would pick up later in the night but as I mentioned above our total was over 200. After we picked up the pictures right next door was bingo. We arrived a little late so all the tablets were gone. We ended up with nine cards and 12 cards for the final game. As with the morning session we didn’t win anything. We were close on a couple of the cards, but nothing came of it. Someone won $2600 on the final game. After bingo, we came back to the room. We both took a nap for a while. It was about 6 o’clock by time we got our stuff together – cleaned up and dressed. We were headed to dinner. Again, seated in the same row we sat all cruise, we had a nice dinner. We finished off the white from the night before. I had a seafood terrine which was really good. For my entrée I had the burger. The burger was spiced up with jalapenos and kimchi. Mary had soup and New York strip steak. She liked both of them too. For dessert we had a slice of baked Alaska. It’s basically ice cream with meringue around it. It was good. Yet to wait a while for to melt a bit before you could eat though. From dinner we decided to go back to the picture area to see if we could find the missing picture. One of the picture people found it for us. It was buried behind some other pictures. While Mary took care of this I wandered around. It was now about 9 o’clock. We decided to go up to the casino to get the money off our cards. Because it was the last night of the cruise you had to cash in all your money. I had about $123 on my card from playing poker one of the first nights. We cashed up the money on our cards and headed home. Mary went down later and picked up some tea for us. We watched a movie called Up Shots. It was pretty good. It was funny. By time this was over it was almost 12. We did gain an hour last night because we moved back into London time. Tonight we lose that hour again as we move out of London time heading east. That was pretty much day 13. This also signals the end of first half of our vacation. The Mediterranean cruise was cool. It had some very interesting places. It went by very quickly. It’s amazing how fast 14 days can go. We learned a lot about several countries. I would have to say that the highlight of the trip was either Marseille or Cetau. Seville was a close third. I would have to say that Rome was a letdown. Florence was cool and I could see going back there. I can see flying into one of these cities and spending some solid time to learn them better. As I mentioned above somewhere we were only seen about 2% of a given city or country. It’s just enough to give us a tiny taste of what the entire city or country could be. It’s probably obvious but the personal guides are much better than the generic Princess managed excursions. The people we met on our personal guided trips will worth every penny. We actually have more stops on the Baltic cruise. Unfortunately, only one of them is a personal guide. We will spend two days in St. Petersburg. Other than that we are on Princess managed excursions. I believe in Poland we do not have anything arranged. We will have to see how they go. I actually have higher expectations for the Baltic cruise that I did for the Mediterranean. We’ll see how that plays out too.