February 27 - At Sea
Today's lectures were Part I of the history of the convicts sent to Australia (Terry Bishop) which was interesting and The Beatles (Mitchell Symons) which was desappointing. The seas are a bit rough again with more rolling and pitching than we've had for a while. After lunch up at the buffet, Michael went to Italian lessons and I watched the Linda Ronstadt documentary in the cabin. We were given a list of the excursions available for our upcoming modified segment around south Australia. We quickly made our choices and I got in the line to turn it in. That took about 20 minutes, but we got all the ones we wanted. Today was, finally, a banner day for Team Hopeful at trivia when we got a perfect 15/15. We all contributed an answer. I knew it was Check Berry who made the song Johnny B. Goode famous and, thanks to son-in-law Russ who is a superhero fan, Michael and I together knew Peter Parker is Spiderman's alter ego. We all celebrated at ...