April 27, 2022
Let’s begin with my selections for dinner. Mac, another fancy night, I think. Shrimp ceviche – lime-marinated shrimp tossed with cucumber, avocado, radish, red onions, cilantro and serrano chilies. Pan-seared sole – flaky white fish served with jasmine rice, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and a fragrant anise-garlic-butter sauce. Apple blossom a la mode – warm apple tart served with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. Yummy!
The show tonight was Craig Dahn, a classically trained pianist, who played like a rock and roll boogie woogie pianist. Really good stuff. There was a camera trained on the keyboard and flashed on 3 screens so we could watch his hands. Well, we could look where his hands were, but we rarely saw his fingers as anything more than a blur. Excellent performance. We went early to the theater, found seats, and 10 minutes later were told they were going to clean the house so we had to leave. Came back in a minute or two after 7 and reclaimed our seats.
I have decided for the extra talk, since we are missing Madeira, to do “The Lady in Gold,” a brand new talk that I wrote almost 3 years ago and have never presented onboard. It is a story I enjoyed researching, and am looking forward to doing it on Sunday, May 1. Tomorrow is Spice, then Potatoes, then Raise a Glass, before “The Lady in Gold.”
Before I turn the keyboard over to my cruise buddy, a story from somewhere early this morning when the time was O Dark Something. Bonnie got up to go to the facilities. There is a nightlight in there that lets you see where you are stepping (there is a step up to go to the loo) and when she looked towards the porcelain facility, she noticed a small, rectangular, green object floating in the bowl. It was my deodorant. We have caught up to the storm that the Captain said we would be following and one of the wave swells tossed it in. She gingerly fished it out and washed it in hot water. Tonight, the lid will be closed.
And now. Heeere’s Bonnie!
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EWH!!! Imagine half asleep and seeing this object floating in the pot. Then, having to fish it out. Yucky!!
Not a good evening I have been thrown all over the ship by our rocking back and forth. The Captain had said in his early morning talk that it would be smoother this evening. Wrong!! It anything it is worse. Oh well, it is good to sleep to but not to walk to. Only walked 3 miles today. Did get one more square crocheted.
We got up about 8 and showered and went to breakfast. I had a bacon sandwich and a hot chocolate. David was able to find some hot chocolate packages at the coffee station (I had looked earlier and there weren’t any)so tomorrow I will make my own now and not have to use his coffee card. Lunch we went to the pizza place. We had a variety of sides (olives, tomatoes and cheese, stuffed peppers, etc) and we each had 2 slices of pepperoni. Then I had a cup of chocolate pudding. A very enjoyable lunch. He went back up to study and I went to the Music hall to wait for his talk on Salt. Some cruise person was doing some kind of trivia on countries and places that the ship visited. She kept talking and talking as the time got close to 2. She finally finished about 1 minute to 2.
After his talk we headed to the room for a quick nap before supper. Tonight the dress was Carribean night so I wore a pair of Carribean jogging pants and a pink shirt. He wore his new Royal Carribean shirt he had bought. Supper was a shrimp cocktail, Parmesan chicken over spaghetti with a tasteless tomato sauce (the chicken was good) and a lemon meringue tart. Then, off to wait to get into the show.
The pianist, David Dahn, started off with two versions of the Phantom of the Opera. The original play and the latest. They showed scenes from both movies as he played the song from each version. It was very impressive. David said you can view it on u-tube. He was exceptionally good. When he was young he performed with Liberace and wears on of his baby grand piano diamond rings. Only one of three that Liberace had and gave away. Dad said he would try and put a link to his stuff on the blog [I found it, link above]. Worth taking a look at. The only funny thing is the promotional photo they have of him on the ship is when he was probably in his late 20's or early 30's and he is now grayed and more like in his 60's.
After the show we went up to the windjammer to get ice and a drink.
I am very hot, tried and ache tonight. Hot I cool off soon so I can sleep. There really isn’t anywhere for me to sit comfortably in the cabin. If I sit on the couch my feet don’t touch the floor. And the pillows on the bed are all so huge there is no way to arrange them so I can sit. Oh well it will be fine.
Hope you girls are enjoying the strawberries in spite of the large garter snake that is crawling in amongst them. Miss you all. We have to turn our clocks up again tonight and now I will be adding 4 hours to my watch and my phone. Crazy!!!
Love to you all. Mom, Granny and Bonnie
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