August 23, 2024 – At Sea – Labrador Sea – Mostly Cloudy – Cold – 40s

There was a little motion of the ocean last night but not too bad but with this kind of time change I always get up too early (around 2:53 AM).  I did somehow get back to sleep and finally got up to go to the Oceanview Café for Breakfast at 6:40 AM.  I had my usual breakfast (continues to be pretty good, especially the coffee since I now can get those to-go cups from the bar – they really keep the coffee hot).

Not a whole lot to see on this chilly foggy morning.  We are steaming toward Halifax, our next port of call.

I was at the Theater at 8:40 AM – set up quickly, and spent some chatting with the patrons. 

Another good turnout – I keep thinking about 70 percent full (700 people or so).  This talk, “Open Unsolved Cases: Forensic Genealogy” is a new talk and one of the more difficult ones for me.  It went OK and finished in 49 minutes allowing Samantha to set up her talk for the 10 AM time slot.  She will always have enough time because the Captain always gives his update at 9:55 AM followed by Manuel’s rundown of the day ahead.  I doubt she'll get started before about 10:15 AM.

Ellen seems to be responding to the Augmentin (always nice to have meds with us as they are frightfully expensive on board - a few years ago before we started bringing along our pharmaceuticals, I paid $23 a pill for Augmentin or $460 bucks for the full course).  

We spent an hour looking for whales and drinking coffee and tea in the Oceanview Café before going to lunch in the Moonlight Sonata Dining Room.  We went there today because they had the fried mushrooms, cold potato soup, and fried egg panini.  I had a veggie burger and once again struggled with getting the plain old yellow mustard.  The best part of the meal was the chocolate brownie with ice cream.

We spent a lot of the afternoon in very comfortable seats with a view just outside the dining room. 

We once again passed on the production show, “Amade” after checking our cruise logs and the comments left there after the time we saw this show.

We are now in our room as the ship has gotten very cold and our room is nice a warm.