Saturday, January 25, 2025

December 30, 2024 – At Sea – Pacific Coast of Mexico – Partly Cloudy – 80F

A little rocky this morning. The waves are as high as our porthole.  

The Windows Café has worked out a good system for me to get my cottage cheese and sour cream in the morning.  The cottage cheese and sour cream are in industrial sized buckets in the fridge underneath the fruit. and the staff seems to know where the buckets are located.  So I just asked someone and boom, they are scooped on to my plate. Followed by the jam and then the pancakes. Perfect timing and delicious food. 

After breakfast and after Ellen got her room service. We got nice seats on the open deck (it is still nice and warm out there), where we spent the morning reading. I am trying to get a new book and it’s harder than I thought.  I have gone through all the books by my universe of authors and I either have to wait for them to write another or find a new author.  Am doing both.

The ship was moving through some fog (not enough for the horns to sound) - 

behind us the the weather looked pretty good.

We went to the Windows Cafe for lunch.  I tried to order the grilled tuna wrap at The Patio but was told by my tall order lady that there was no more tuna on board.  The wrap would now be filled with "white fish" and that could be almost anything.  There is still a lot of cruise to go - so, Beyond Burgers are not the item of choice on the grill.

I am scheduled to deliver a "A Death in Iceland: The Birna Brjansdottir Murder" at 3 PM in the Cabaret Lounge.  I was happy with the turnout considering that all four speakers were on today and I was the last on the schedule.  The talk went well - even though I called her "Birma" a couple of times.  I ended up right on time.  Before my talk, I went to Peter Ranelli's “Ship of Gold” about a salvage operation to retrieve gold coins (US). 

Tonight theme in the Windows Cafe is "The Taste of South America". That usually means a lot of meat and not a lot else.  We had dinner in The Patio – Veggie Lasagna for me and salmon for Ellen.  Deck 9 at dusk is very nice and worth a picture.

After dinner, which was traditionally very slow, we went to The Den to hear Ike (one of the Signature Singers do his first ever solo show – a country set that was very good – Glen Campbell, Willie Nelsen, John Denver, etc. He might do another. I hope.

Tonight’s headliner – Welsh Comedian/Magician Taffy Spencer – he was probably funny but I only understand about 10 percent of what he was saying. I did take a lot of pictures of him being funny.  Here's one.

When we got to the room, Ellen checked out the Insider and told me that I was actually speaking tomorrow right at departure from Acapulco (the worst time for speaker) instead of on January 3.  Schedules are flexible.

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