A DOUBLE FEATURE

October 8, 2017

Tonight’s entertainment on the World Stage was a double feature.  Sort of.  The show was called “Musicality” and it featured only the Koningsdam Dancers performing as musical instruments – with costumes and lighting to match.  It is without a doubt one of the best on board shows we’ve ever seen, comparable to Broadway.  What made it a double feature was, we looked at each other and said, “Let’s stay and see it again!”  Before the show they made an announcement not to do any still photography or video, or I would have some clips to show you (we noticed some people ignoring the instructions – but we obeyed the rules).

We ate supper tonight with two couples from Canada and had a good meal and a very enjoyable time.  Today is Thanksgiving in Canada and one of the menu options was a traditional turkey dinner, of which I partook.  It was good but nothing to compare with what will be spread at 233 on October 28 (in case you forgot to mark your calendars, that is the day Bonnie is doing our Thanksgiving dinner, since we will be at sea for the regular 4th Thursday of November gathering).

Today was my second talk, “Ferdinand Magellan: To the End of the World.”  It was a bigger crowd than for the first one, and seemed to be well received.  About a half dozen folk came up to ask questions, and that is always gratifying.  Tomorrow we are in Funchal, Madeira and will be staying over night, so Captain Kidd will be featured on Wednesday.

I mentioned technical difficulties in an earlier blog and it seems as though – at least the supposition is – that the Windows 10 update which transpired automatically before we sailed messed up the drivers that make the Sony Vaio speak to the ship’s projectors.  So good old Windows XP and my backup computer will be in service for the rest of the cruise.  Hopefully we can get it fixed before we sail again.

We set our clocks back one hour tonight, so we will be only five hours ahead of you in the morning.  I am looking forward to the extra hour’s sleep, especially since I worked on my talk – changing a number of slides – right through naptime.  And since I am yawning already, I will turn the keyboard over to my cruising partner.

TTFN

Hurrah!!  I finally got my headphones that Dad bought for me to work on my kindle for my walk.  And Hurrah!! We had wonderful dinner companions, love those Canadians.

Well, my day started at 3am!  I woke when my mask wouldn’t stay on my face correctly and was leaking air very loudly. So I got up and sat on the couch with my phone playing scrabble till about 5, then went back to bed again and slept about another hour and half. I dressed for walking while your Dad got ready, then we went to breakfast. After eating I went to deck 3 and walked a mile. Then, I returned to the cabin and showered and dressed for the day. I decided today to sit on the Lido deck out near the pool and crochet.  It was very nice outside. Pretty overcast but it wasn’t hot and I enjoyed the time crocheting. Dad came up about 12 and we had lunch. I tried a Reuben from the deli today. It was okay. Their pizzas are better. After lunch I headed to the theater for the 2 pm talk. The guy doing this talk is a professor emeritus from Georgetown University in Maryland. He is very intelligent but his slides are just to much to take in. He tells you some of the stuff that is on the slide but not all of it and it is very hard to try and listen and read the slide. He also uses a vocabulary that contains many large words and terms not easily understood. He is a nice person but I don’t really enjoy his talks.

Dad’s talk was at 3 and today he was followed by Bingo!  He was done right on time but the Bingo people were late getting started.  Not our fault. After the talk we returned to the room to dress for supper . We thought the first show was at 8:30 so we were going to go to supper a little later but the first show was at 7:15 so we left for supper about 5:15. I had a taco type salad with turkey. It was very good. Butterscotch sundae for dessert.

Your Dad was right the show was fantastic. We really enjoyed it both times. And they have one more performance at 10pm. I don’t see how they can expend so much energy and do it 3 times in one night.

Well, bedtime even though we turned the clock back.

Note to Karen: you can send me an email to David’s email address and I will get it and can answer back. Hope you are all okay.

Thanks for the picture Mac. Granny misses you. See you in about 11 days.

Love Mom, Granny and Bonnie