February 13 - At Sea
Back to our usual routine for sea days, but this time Jan and Tom met us for coffee and breakfast. We are introducing them to some of the friends we've made and the staff we've come to know.
This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was about Rugby Union football, which is almost a religion in this part of the world according to Terry. He explained a bit about how the game got here, how it is played and the rules, such as they are. My favorite was when he showed the All Blacks from New Zealand who perform the Haka dance before every match to intimidate their opponents. And then to teach it to us, he showed a film of a NZ dad teaching his kids. You could hear a young one laughing loudly in the background. Guess s/he wasn't intimidated by dad.
We had a second lecture by Mitchell Symons, a British author (among other things) who was involved with both Trivial Pursuit and Who Wants to be a Millionaire since he researched and wrote many of the questions they used. While not the best speaker we've heard, (has a tendency to wander a bit off topic) he was mostly entertaining and I look forward to his future talks.
The third lecture was about Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps. I was hoping it would be better than it sounded - it wasn't. Trivia today was 11/15 so we're getting better. I saw the ship's doctor for a new skin spot Michael noticed this morning. (Another perk of being a World Cruiser is free visits to the ship's doctor.) He said he couldn't be sure what it was without a biopsy, which he can't do here, so he will make arrangements for me to see a dermatologist in Sydney.
Lots of speculation among the passengers about what our future will bring. We haven't heard anything new about any of our other ports turning away cruise ships. We keep up on the Diamond Princess and her quarantine in Japan and the Westerdam who had to flounder about for 2 weeks looking for a disembarkation port before Cambodia would finally let her dock so the passengers could go home. I really don't understand that since no one on board was found to be ill. We are nervously joking about being on the SS Minnow from Gilligan's Island or Poor Charlie on the MTA. But what can we do but wait and see. At least if we are quarantined, we'll be very comfortable for the duration.
Had another good meal at Compass Rose and then I made it to the show tonight which was The Leading Men, an Australian group of singers who have individual careers doing Broadway type musicals and then when schedules permit, come together to do shows. Their voices were very good and I look forward to seeing them again in a few days.
This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was about Rugby Union football, which is almost a religion in this part of the world according to Terry. He explained a bit about how the game got here, how it is played and the rules, such as they are. My favorite was when he showed the All Blacks from New Zealand who perform the Haka dance before every match to intimidate their opponents. And then to teach it to us, he showed a film of a NZ dad teaching his kids. You could hear a young one laughing loudly in the background. Guess s/he wasn't intimidated by dad.
We had a second lecture by Mitchell Symons, a British author (among other things) who was involved with both Trivial Pursuit and Who Wants to be a Millionaire since he researched and wrote many of the questions they used. While not the best speaker we've heard, (has a tendency to wander a bit off topic) he was mostly entertaining and I look forward to his future talks.
The third lecture was about Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps. I was hoping it would be better than it sounded - it wasn't. Trivia today was 11/15 so we're getting better. I saw the ship's doctor for a new skin spot Michael noticed this morning. (Another perk of being a World Cruiser is free visits to the ship's doctor.) He said he couldn't be sure what it was without a biopsy, which he can't do here, so he will make arrangements for me to see a dermatologist in Sydney.
Lots of speculation among the passengers about what our future will bring. We haven't heard anything new about any of our other ports turning away cruise ships. We keep up on the Diamond Princess and her quarantine in Japan and the Westerdam who had to flounder about for 2 weeks looking for a disembarkation port before Cambodia would finally let her dock so the passengers could go home. I really don't understand that since no one on board was found to be ill. We are nervously joking about being on the SS Minnow from Gilligan's Island or Poor Charlie on the MTA. But what can we do but wait and see. At least if we are quarantined, we'll be very comfortable for the duration.
Had another good meal at Compass Rose and then I made it to the show tonight which was The Leading Men, an Australian group of singers who have individual careers doing Broadway type musicals and then when schedules permit, come together to do shows. Their voices were very good and I look forward to seeing them again in a few days.
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