April 26, 2022
Today is the fourth day. We are still south and going to follow the great circle path. We will catch up to the storm that is in the Atlantic but we will be behind it. We should still feel some of its effects. It is a little rocky tonight and the temperature high tomorrow is to be 70.
We got up at 8, showered, had breakfast and then I went to walk. I have over three and half miles today. I am trying to do a lot of steps to get ready for our walking tours.
I am getting some crocheting done. The pattern I brought with me is slow going. I have made 3 hexagonal squares so far. I hope to finish another 20 before we get to Italy so I will have to pick up the pace.
We had lunch at the 2-70 Bistro. I had a Reuben, a peanut butter mousse and some cantaloupe. Then, they were showing the movie “Dune” so I got to watch about an hour before I had to go to his talk. I will have to find it on Kodi and watch it when I get home. He did the water talk today. It was good. After the talk we came back to the room and napped then dressed and went to dinner. Not much tonight the Pablano and corn soup was good and the chicken wings. The chicken breast not so much but the broccoli and carrots were good. The berry crumble wasn’t much.
There were no shows tonight other than a repeat of “The Book”. So we went up to deck 14 to play cards. We tried to play outside on the deck but the wind kept blowing the cards so we went into the Windjammer to play. The score one game to none his favor. We are back in the room and he is listening to the Pirates. Me I am typing but I am about to turn it over to him.
Love you all. No rain here except off in the distance. Jen there should be a small package for me tomorrow but it should be in the mail box.
Love you all!! Miss you, too.
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Since we are missing the Madeira stop, there will obviously be an extra day at sea. Rose, the cruise program administrator asked me today if I’d do an extra talk, and I said, of course. I have one more talk in the Edible History series, so I will do “The Larder of the Vikings: Atlantic Cod.” More than any of the talks I do it is the story of how humanity is destroying natural resources.
At one point today in “Water: It’s Universal” I do a section on “water engineering.” Since we are missing Madeira I thought I’d put in a couple of slides about that island, specifically its “lavadas” – 1350 miles of water ways dug into the mountains to move water down to the cities. There are some beautiful walks along them. Some day we hope to do a couple of them (we’ve driven beside them, but that’s as close as we’ve gotten). When I do the last Edible History talk, “Raise a Glass” I’ll be talking about historic beverages, one of them is wine, and I’ll put in two more slides about Madeira. One is their wine making and the other is just for fun – Lucille Ball stomping grapes on their tour of Italy (from a series of episodes of “I Love Lucy”).
My dinner choices tonight were good. The Pablano corn soup plus escargot for appetizers, vegetable curry with jasmine rice and naan bread for the main course (the curry was advertised with okra in it and I almost passed, but I asked Made if they could leave the okra out or baring that try to dip up a bowl with very little of the slimy stuff – there was only one piece in it). And rum baba for dessert – a complicated way to serve a donut (it had whipped cream on top and was floating in a rum sauce that had the alcohol cooked out and just the flavor). Plus black coffee. All good.
Kadek made us another towel animal, this one an elephant – picture to follow.
And now I am going to send this and begin rehearsal for “Salt: The Rock We Eat.”
TTFN
Love,
Dad/David
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