April 24, 2022
Day 2 at sea and a good one. I did my first talk, “History: It’s What’s For Dinner” to a capacity audience in the Music Hall (And for you smarties who just said, “How many did it seat? A half-dozen? No, it holds150+). A good crowd. And tomorrow, one of my favorites, “Yes, We May Have No Bananas.”
The day started at the Windjammer Café with two fried eggs, over medium, crisp bacon and one biscuit with gravy. Mom had two eggs over hard, bacon, toast and tomato juice. For all of you cruisers out there, the buffet is back. Serve yourself. No wait staff spooning it out for you.
We went in, put our drink containers – my travel coffee cup and water bottle, and Mom’s coke cup – on the table, plus a jacket and a sweater on the chairs and went to get our food. I watched across the way as another couple did the same thing, and then still another couple tried to take the second couple’s table. The husband finally stopped his wife, pointing out to the things placed there. It was funny, but maybe you had to be there.
When I ordered my eggs a hostess gave me a ticket with a number to come back and claim my eggs. My ticket was 117, a number familiar to many of you as the house number on Shenandoah Avenue where we hung out with Skinny Granny and Pappy. Neat.
As is our custom we went to a talk by another presenter to support the working staff. This fellow is doing a technology series. This one was how to study astronomy without a telescope, using your smart phone or other hand-held device. It would have been really good if he had cut out the number of apps he recommended for download and reduce his number of “uhs” to under 100. But maybe I’m being critical.
When we got back to the room after supper (escargot, pasta with carbonara sauce, and creme brulee for me, French onion soup, NY strip steak, and a chocolate souffle for Bonnie) Kadek had made up our room and left us with a towel animal.
I rehearsed a little bit and then we went to the 2-70 for a reservation only show (but Rose gave us star stickers to put on our key cards that gets us in without reservations). The title was “The Book,” and it is very much a fantasy performance. A man opens a book and all kinds of performers emerge. The kids who do this are incredible acrobats – a couple of them don’t seem to have a bone in their bodies. Good singing and loud drumming. An enjoyable show.
Please don’t yell at my cruise buddy for not writing. She promises a personal account tomorrow. And now we will set our clocks ahead another hour and got to sleep.
TTFN
Love,
Dad/David
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