December 10, 2014

Well, it’s another day at sea, another talk, another formal night.  And tonight is lobster night.  Yum!  Oh what do the simple folk do?

A leisurely day at sea.  I gave my next to last talk at 2 p.m., then we hustled down to get into the standby line for the ice show.  Our regular show was the first sea day when I was doing a talk.  I don’t remember why we didn’t go to the 4 p.m., but we made it today.  It is always such a good show.  The audience was kind of flat, but Bonnie and I were cheering lustily and some folks finally caught on.

They did three lines to get into the show today.  One was for the folks whose turn it was, and they got to go in second.  One was for the Diamond and Diamond Plus members (the local which of which there is no whicher – very frequent cruisers) and they got to go in first.  And the third line was for all the rest of us and we got to go in last.  I did find us two seats in the second row, so we were, well, well-seated.

One member of my audience for my talk today (Space: The Final Frontier) was an engineer who worked on Gemini, Apollo, Sky Lab, and the Shuttle Program.  He introduced himself to me before the talk and afterwards complimented my presentation.

Another member of the audience was Judy Resnick’s cousin.  Judy was one of the astronauts killed when the Shuttle Challenger exploded.

And still another was from Broward County, where Cape Canaveral is.  She told me that the area code for the area is 3-2-1.  For the countdown.

Tomorrow is the private resort, Labadee.  We will go ashore sometime, wander around – there are two historical sights: the old bell tower and Nellie’s place that I want to see and photograph – then stay for the bar-b-que and come back on board.  I may stick a toe into the water, just to check it out.  We’ll see.  We’ll see.

TTFN!