At Sea
December 3, 2022
Another sea day. Breakfast, gym, lunch, trivia.
Today at 9:45, we passed by null island. 0.0 latitude, 0.0 longitude I took this photo from the treadmill. Pretty exciting stuff.
Our team really did well today. We scored a 15 out of 18 with only one team ahead of us. Must have been all of the studying we have been doing. Jose is our history guy. Kathy fairs well on literature. LJ handles the more obscure questions. Terri on science and medicine and I definitely can handle the music.
A few changes to the itinerary have created some issues. We had a HAL tour in Puerto Rico that was cancelled due to lack of interest. Out tour in Cape Verde requires 8 people minimum. They want us to find people? We cancelled. Still adjusting times on our tour on Monday in the Ivory Coast. Tour operator is a bit slow in responses.
At our dinner with the other night, we learned that the wives of Bill and Jim aren’t really cut out for life on the ship. I think they spend too much time in their room and not out on the deck. You really have to learn to ignore the 75 year old, very over weight man in the Speedo. If you look, you can’t unsee. The 75 year old, very heavy set woman with the cell phone between her boobs is another. Learn to ignore and you have it made. Meals prepared, laundry done, live music any time of day. Tough life.
The evening entertainment was CH2. A classical guitar duo from South Africa. What a show. One guitarist was on a nylon string classical guitar. The other was on a more standard steel string. The steel string guitarist was the rhythm player and he was able to provide the drummer that was needed by striking different parts of his guitar. The other guitarist played the lead, melodic parts. The did a cover of Sinatra’s My Way, Michael Jackson’s Billy Jean, and also dug deep for an arrangement of the Canon in D by Johann Pachebel (I ignored it when the lead guitarist referred to it as Bach’s Canon in D). Outstanding performance. Worth looking them up on YouTube. I gave them a 10. Best performance on the cruise.
