We thought when waking this morning we would most likely have a quiet’ish day after walking a long way yesterday, only we was wrong.
The weather is still quite nice and although rain was forecast it did not appear and the sun was quite bright when we had breakfast this morning on the aft deck. The rest of the morning Noel spent going through his now several hundred photographs to make them ready for the web for when we can reach an internet connection and Jennifer was deep in her book.
A light lunch was followed by more time reading and Ipod music then a good mile and half fast walk on the deck to get the blood moving to get ready for our dinner in the Orchid Chinese Restaurant. The dinner was pretty good and the style was mostly Northern Chinese style but being served by Indian and Philipino waiters and with Japanese chop sticks and no stick rests it wasn’t quite right and even the Jasmine tea was tea bag style, Oh for Hong Kong!!!
Following dinner we went up to the Spinnaker lounge at the front of the ship, we though, to have a quiet sit down, meditate and let the dinner go down only there was a ‘Newly Wed Show’ hosted by, you guessed it, Goodmorning Laideese and genelemen Cruise Director. It is supposed to be a quiz where you ask couples who are married the same question to see if they answer the same. So here is the twist, when they were looking for a very newly married couple a guy put his hand up and said they had been married for only 27 days and so the hostess asked them to come to the floor. It was then that everybody discovered that it was a male gay marriage. This seemed to temporarily throw Miss Cruise Director for a minute. They were pitched against another two couples with the questions getting more personal as time went on, Ummm, not sure about this.
When this was finished the Philippine band started up and they seemed a bit off key and so we left there intending to go to the Bliss lounge but the second house of the show was just starting in the amphitheatre and so we went to that instead. Twelve boys and girls dancing and singing along to old numbers from a past age and they were not bad, but the band was very good indeed and it’s a shame they don’t seem to perform anywhere else on the boat. So they perhaps do three hours every other night, tough life really.
Back to the cabin and pleased to find a note that they will be showing the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix on TV tomorrow at 3pm and so it looks like we may have a shortened visit to Ponta Delgado which is on a Portugese Island several hours off the coast of Portugal in the middle of nowhere, good place to leave the wife.
Let’s hope there is an internet café shop somewhere as we had no luck in
PHOTOS WILL BE ADDED WHEN WE GET A FAST CONNECTION
