I really hate time changes but I hate back changes the most – I was up at 3:30 AM, then 5:00 PM or so. I got some nice pictures of the sepia colored sunrise.
The Café must have opened ahead of its 7:30 AM open time since I got up there about five minutes early and the place was full of passengers eating. I got the table for two near the Veranda entrance. I had pancakes with cottage cheese (now available at the yoghurt bay); there is no sour cream and I did, indeed have yoghurt on my pancake yesterday. The scrambled eggs were Ok today. The view from the Sunset Veranda was great - too bad it's so nippy out there.
Ellen got there when I
finished my breakfast – around 8:15 AM or so and looked around for food and
wound up with lox she normally orders from Room Service.
From Breakfast, we went to
the Living Room – warmer than some
parts of the ship. I went through my
talk for today and moved a few slides around.
Up to date – 11:23 AM PST.
We had lunch in the Discoveries Restaurant even though my talk today, “Forensic Detectives: The Search for Jack the Ripper” was at 2 PM. That’s because they offered a mushroom omelet (for Ellen) and Salmon Teriyaki for me as well as Key Lime Pie for both of us. I also had a salad with Ranch dressing, which is difficult to find on the two salad bars on board. The lunch service was fast and I had plenty of time to get ready for my talk
The talk generated the best turnout of the cruise – maybe a hundred attendees (again very difficult to determine). The talk went well, with good audience participation, but ran a bit long (57 minutes long). Ellen broke down the system quickly as a special presentation about Hawaii (where the ship is going next) was on at 3 PM.
It was too chilly to go outside so we went up to the Living Room, which was almost at a comfortable temperature. We have been up there for several trivia contests during the cruise – that’s the way the timing works.
There's another ship out there and I figured out it was the NCL Joy by looking up our current position and finding out what ships were near us.
The dinner theme in the Windows Café tonight was “Taste of India”. So that left The Patio as the only viable option (nothing in the
Restaurant). We both ordered salmon with
baked potatoes and sour cream. I ordered
mine well done and Ellen opted for medium well done. As it turned out, it took three attempts to
get her fish right (the first iteration had the sour cream on the fish and no
baked potato – my fish was well done and OK but no baked potato). Ellen’s fish never worked out despite changes
in the cooks at the grill. Decaf coffee
(instant) and cookies were dessert.
We passed on the show tonight – “Wanderlust” but we did go to see a bit of Jose, the new ACD, do his set in The Den.
His voice is
different and he’s quite different from his predecessor, Lee. We might run into him again on a future
cruise.
We have a full day of excursions tomorrow so we went to the room.
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