February 11, 2019 – at Sea
Thankfully we have a few days at sea to recover from Easter Island. We moved to Central Standard Time Last Night and will move to Mountain Time tonight.
We learned that out of 24 planned tenders, only 15 made it to Easter Island before the Captain ended the operation. How lucky we were! The Captain gave everyone a free glass of champagne because of the cancelled tendering. I don’t think that will help the complaining.
Our next island is Pitcairn. We are midway through watching Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton to prepare for this island. There is no place to tender ships on the island. Cliffs around the island prevent that. Island residents will lower long boats to come up and greet us. They will board the ship and set up shop to sell us stuff.
Temperature has been about 80 degrees each day and partly cloudy. Breakfast first. Then workout. We sit on the deck after and then again after lunch. We tried the main dining room for lunch. Much quieter and a nicer menu. Everyone in the Lido wants to eat at noon and it gets crowded.
The ship is rolling more today than yesterday. The ship feels very alive when the diesel engines are running and the ship is moving.
The evening entertainment was the return of magician Stephen Williams and pianist Liam Cooper. The magician did a short act and it was well done. Liam wasn’t as good as his first show. He came out playing a piano he wore around his neck a la Johnny Winter. Jump was one of the few Van Halen tunes I didn’t care for. He also did some Queen. I don’t know what people hear in the Bohemian Rhapsody that delights them. I didn’t like it when it came out in the 70s and still don’t care for it today. Never a fan of Queen. There was a recording playing while he and the band played that supplied all of the harmonies. Reminded me of karaoke night at the Railroad Inn in Mt. Clemens.
We finished the night at the Crow’s Nest. The Station Band had a night of disco. Well done. …