TALKING AND WALKING

April 4, 2018

Good crowd this morning in the Princess Theater for “History: It’s What’s For Dinner.”  We are guessing an audience of 300.  I thought the talk went well, but it didn’t get started well.  I went to the theater at 9 a.m. to have a sound check along with the Ken, the Port Lecturer, and all went well.  At 10:30 when they hooked my Lenovo up to their system the picture rolled like an old time TV with the horizontal hold broken (you youngsters will have to Google that).  Restart, and it did the same thing.  So I copied the file onto a flash drive and loaded it onto their computer and off we went.  Tomorrow I will take both computers.  This is crazy!

After lunch, which was a British Pub Lunch, featuring Steak and Kidney Pie, Plowman’s Lunch, Bangers and Mash, or Fish and Chips (we opted for the fish and a few chips), we went to the Plaza to enjoy music by X-Trio, a violin, guitar, and accordion.

Then it was off to 334 and the afternoon nap, after which was the “walking” part of this title.  Bonnie had already done a mile or so in the morning, promenading around the Promenade Deck while I rehearsed, and then we went back out and did another mile.  It was beautiful weather toodling around the deck, accompanied by gentle sea breezes and an audio book of a Hammish Macbeth mystery (Hammish is a Scottish policeman – his stories are highly recommended).

Our lost table mates, Dee and Dean, from Kansas City, MO, arrived.  An enjoyable couple who are members of a Methodist Church.  Good dinner of chicken pot pie for me and Schezuan shrimp for Bonnie.  Tonight’s Spotlight Showtime was piano virtuoso Ryan Ahern who played rock and boogie woogie and show tunes to a standing ovation.

And now your friendly neighborhood travelers are back in the room, clothed in bedclothes and ready for lights out.  Stay tuned for more exciting adventures and high jinx at sea tomorrow.

Until then, TTFN