Day 48

March 11, 2019 – at Sea

Nice day at sea to recover from the reef.

We did our usual routine. Breakfast, gym, deck, trivia, lunch, deck, dinner. Our trivia team lacks anyone that knows things about Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, or things of that nature. We are good at giving each other blank stares. We don’t have a good mix. We all know the same general knowledge.

Evening entertainment was percussionist David Meyer. David played the Xylosyth. a 3 octave keyboard midi controller that he used mallets to play. Most of the time he used 4 mallets but did at least one piece with 3 and one with 2. He opened with Baba O’Riley by The Who and was accompanied by the house band. It was a little odd that the lead musician was playing the repetitive modal sequence of the tune but it was a hit. David asked if anyone had ever heard of the tune. A bit funny since the tune was recorded almost 50 years ago, long before he was born. He probably didn’t realize he was talking to the aged Woodstock Generation. He did a rock set, a few classics and closed with selections from Carmen. He met his wife on one of the cruises he performed at. She is a classically trained dancer. He added her on the Carmen number but she didn’t add much since his whole program revolved about watching him and his mallets. It was a good program and we enjoyed it.