At Sea
November 6, 2022
Another great day at sea. Beautiful weather and water as far as the eye can see. We are traveling about 500 miles from the coast of Somalia. Far enough that to avoid any problems. We are heading slightly southeast. The sun rises on the port side of the ship and sets on the starboard side
We made it to Sunday Brunch today. The food just kept coming. Nothing to order, there are samples of many dishes on the many courses. Outstanding.
We had another time change last night and we are 8 hours ahead of home. In a few days we will be passing he equator and there is a ceremony for all ship staff that have never crossed the equator on a ship. It involves the swimming pool, King Neptune and kissing a fish.
We are considering booking a round of golf in Tanzania but it appears to be difficult to do from the ship. None of the courses have a page on the internet for setting up a time and calling them doesn’t seem possible from our location. At least not a wifi call. The internet is much too unstable and a call will not go through.
We continuously have more than 6 members in our trivia group. 6 is the limit but 8 doesn’t to seem to provide any additional help. There are no prizes given to the winning group. I would be happy with a muffin. At the music trivia, I was the only one that had answers to any of the recordings that were played. Most of the group said they never listened to music from the era that was played. Foreigner, Styx, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Queen. I recognized all of the tunes but one. Titles didn’t come as fast. We scored in the middle of the pack. One of groups said they got them all right.
During the general knowledge trivia no one appears confident enough in their own answer and many times our scribe will write down an answer that someone else gave. The confidence level is very high when the answers are given and they happened to be correct. We all have the same reaction. Hands in the air, “That’s what I said”. Why didn’t you write it down?
We made dinner plans with a few couples we met on the ship for Monday night.
The internet is unbelievably slow. It isn’t stable enough to do anything that requires two factor authentication like logging in to your bank account. A text message and security code will be sent to your phone to verify it is you. Unfortunately it does not arrive soon enough to use.
The water appears to be very calm but it still has large swells. It makes sleeping great but workouts at the gym fascinating…