February 19, 2019 – at Sea
Tomorrow we cross the international dateline. We will go to bed tonight and wake up Thursday morning. February 20 does not exist on this cruise. I will be following what the ship does so the dates may seem odd but the number of the day will continue.
Bora Bora was a blast and our timing was for the day worked perfectly. The sun is very intense here and we both show signs of it the day after.
When we showed up for group trivia we found another couple in our seats. Two things we learned on this cruise. Game seating and bus seating are sacred. Once you sit in a seat it is your for the tour or the cruise in this case. Obviously this group was new. Nasty looks didn’t seem to work. We did find a stray table and Terri and Becky sat while Skip, Jerry and I stood. A good effort on our part. The only other element to be liquid at room temperature besides mercury? If you said bromine you were correct. We were not.
The evening entertainment was a trio called the Soul Sisters of Motown. Before I do my usual critique, there was a woman in front of us that spoiled the event a bit for us and did cause some friends of ours to leave. She was alone, sat right in front of me, and was quite obnoxious. She tried to imitate everything the women on stage were doing. If she could only keep a beat it wouldn’t have been as bad. Obviously her meds were back in her room.
The sisters looked the part and did some great choreography. Some of the harmonies and even lead parts were off for just a bit. It was very obvious that a lot of time was spent on costuming, and choreography. Motown musicians were great musicians. Great vocalists and instrumentalists. Here is where the show lacked. I would have preferred a canned recording of a real Motown backup band. There is nothing like the sound of a bari sax or trumpet. The synthesizer that the stage band used just didn’t do it. They also played very carefully. This is how musicians play when they have little rehearsal time. The Motown sound was not there. If they did that, their sound would have improved tremendously, even with the occasional vocal flaws. They probably would have sang with more energy with a better band sound.
Tomorrow we are at the Captains dinner in the Pinnacle Grill.…