We
have received a personal invitation to join the Captain for pre-dinner drinks
along no doubt with a lot more people so we won’t be attending as have nothing
in common with this guy except perhaps that I did work for P & O at one
time and slept in the same room with the Captain of Canberra in the early
1970’s.
Breakfast
we joined a mixed table with some people who were doing the whole 125 days, god
help them as we would go potty. On returning to the cabin the sun was pouring
on to the balcony so Jennifer decided to miss the line dancing in a windowless
room and we sat outside reading for a while in the fresh air.
An
early afternoon 1.5 mile walk around the promenade deck followed by a salad
lunch and then back to the cabin for more reading. The canapés arrived and our
last bottle of home bought Chablis is almost dead but there was enough for a
couple of glasses.
Jennifer
dressed in her new red plunging neckline and showing cleavage that would drive
most Indian to drink and then off to dinner. The food has been very goo on
board and no complaints and for tonight we had the mushroom pate and then the
fish brochette on rice with a nice bottle of Chardonnay which must have had a
hole in it or somebody else was drinking it but it seemed to go very quickly.
We
wandered dow to see the show which was tonight an ex player from the group Los
Paraguayas. The player was very good but only seemed to play well known non
Paraguayan tunes supported on occasions by a slightly out of tune band. The
tunes that he played by himself alone were good and no band was needed and we
thought we might last the complete show but then he entered his ‘Butlins
Holiday Camp’ mode to try and get people to join in and sing and stopping and
making them do it again if he did not like it. At this point we left the show.
We had come to be entertained and not have do it ourselves. If we had wanted to
sing we would have gone to Karaoki.
So
at 9.30 pm we were back in the cabin and watched the second half of a film
called ‘Captain Philips’ or something like that about Somalian Pirates who take
over a Maersk Container ship and hold the ship and the Captain for good honest
USD$. Needless to say the American forces came to their aid and saved the day.
And
so to bed. Tomorrow is forecast to be even warmer than today, let’s hope so.
