Our Friday was another sea day spent doing our usual reading, games, lectures and a movie.  Our dinner was at the captain's table with the captain and general manager and four other guests.  It was an enjoyable evening although different than in the past as none of the officers are allowed to drink any alcohol.  Both the captain and general manager are Italian so they are used to having wine with dinner.  They told us that they are now subjected to random surprise testing.
The highlight of Saturday (another sea day) was the "country fair" where the different departments on the ship set up carnival type game booths.  The passengers can win raffle tickets for various prize drawings.  The crew enjoys this as much as the passengers.
Saturday evening entertainment was the "Cirque" type show put on by the entertainment staff.  They did a remarkable job considering we were having a "bouncy" ride at the time.

Entertainment staff were in the pool and if you touched them with the "whale" you won a ticket

Housekeeping staff had two passengers racing to place straws in bottles and then removing them

Bar staff was a football game complete with cheer leaders

Male bar staff cheer leader!

Officers conducted camel race where you had to wind the string on a bar while seated backwards in chair