A day at sea...

A day at sea and we decide to do something we don’t usually do….attend the Art Auction!  We knew that this would be the day the Navigation Map for this leg of the voyage would be auctioned.  This cruise is actually 3 voyages, back-to-back.  With each voyage there is a navigation map that details the exact route the ship takes.  All the officers sign the map and it is auctioned off, with the proceeds going to a Princess Cruise line charity.

 

We had heard that the map of the first voyage sold for $1,500.  So we were interested to see what the map of the voyage going ‘round the horn’ would sell for so off we went to the Art Auction.

 

These auctions don’t usually interest us as the art work offered is neither to our liking or in our budget.  But today we settled in at a table and had an interesting chat with a lady who has cruised many, many times.  It was fun to visit with her about her favorite places.

 

Then the auction started and I think only one piece of art sold prior to the bidding for the Navigation Map.  The bidding started out at $450 and ended up being a battle between two people….a man a few tables away and the lady we were sitting with.  Seems she was the one that bought the first voyage map and wanted this one, too.  Back and forth those two went in $50-100 increments until the man finally bowed out and the lady we were sitting with won the auction with her bid of $4,050!!  And she didn’t even blink an eye at that amount!

 

The man came over to congratulate her and he started talking about his excursion the other day to Antarctica.  He said it was well worth the $3,000 to fly and land on Antarctica!  Gulp!  That’s way more than what I thought the tour sold for.  Anyway, he had wanted to buy the map because he had gone to Antarctica.  WOW!

 

And it’s Formal Night so here we are.