At Sea
December 7, 2022
Another day at Sea. Since we missed a previously planned stopped, we are moving faster than normal to reach Port of Dakar at the right time. We had breakfast with Jim and Bill. I think thee wives have had it with the ship people on the tours. Thankfully we are able to avoid most of the HAL tours.
Team trivia has been going better than ever. Maybe Erica is making it easier. She created “trivia for elementary schoolers”, just to see if we could keep up. She had questions from first grade, second grade and so on. An elementary question she gave was a music question. Is an oboe a brass or wind instrument. A brass instrument is a wind instrument and so is an oboe. I think she meant to say brass or woodwind. I did mention that to her but I just got a blank stare. LJ argued with me quite a bit. She was a trumpet player, don’t ya know. “Brass is not a wind instrument”, she said. I laughed and tried to explain winds, percussion, strings. Winds can be broken down into brass, woodwinds, upper woodwinds, double reeds. It’s hard to argue with a trumpet player. Of course we said oboe and got it right but I would have argued for brass also.
We had dinner in the Pinnacle with Anne and Joe. They are brother and sister and have been traveling together for a few years. Joe lost his wife some years ago and Anne her husband. They grew up in Cleveland and also went to Bowling Green University. We had a lot to share and had a lot of laughs. I had a few calls during dinner about a tour we were trying to set up for tomorrow. I finally did reach him and we set up a tour for 9:30 am.
It was PJ’s birthday so we did a FaceTime call before going to bed. The grandkids are growing up too fast. PJ did a demonstration on his new violin. Good for him!…