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| Cassowary Coast |
Today we have continued northward along the Cassowary Coast and Barrier Reef as we passed Cairns and Port Douglas. The third officer has put together a powerpoint presentation with navigational maps, information and photos of points of interest along the way, which has been showing on the huge movie screen by the pool. This afternoon we passed Endeavor Reef where James Cook ran aground in 1770.
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| Navigation info on the MUTS Screen |
I went to the line dancing classes - the instructor is a very lively English girl - and once again we had a ball - the class has so many people that we are dancing in all the aisles of the Vista Lounge. Quote of the class would have to be when she said “I love this class - you are so creative - I started with one dance and now after watching you, I have more than 20 different versions to teach!!” What we lacked in talent was certainly made up for in enthusiasm and laughter.
We also joined the Ballroom dancing class for the Waltz lessons - the instructor Alana, is a ton of fun - she showed us how to move our feet so that we didn’t look like we had just stepped into dog poo!!!! Unfortunately I still have two left feet and so am a real trial for Arnold to dance with - as an absolute beginner, I am so focused on getting the steps right that I can’t relax, enjoy and follow his lead!! Still, with about 60 sea days on this voyage - maybe I will even learn enough to dance at Rob and Ruth’s wedding next year without embarrassing them!!!
There are a series of guest enrichment lecturers onboard - each giving a talks on a wide range of topics - Arnold went to the lecture entitled “A new world order - the emergence of the service economy”, which he said was interesting and very well attended.
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| The Irish Cup |
We spent the afternoon over a long, leisurely lunch with Randy, Carol, Pam and Jim - we had to be asked to leave the restaurant - we had been talking so much we hadn’t noticed that the restaurant was empty and they wanted to prepare it for the evening dinner service. We partook of a bit of Vitamin D therapy by the pool, read our books, attended the dicey horse racing and the afternoon trivia session.
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| The Sir Guessalot Brains Trust! |
We are getting better at trivia scoring 16 out of 20 today - we named our team Sir Guessalot!! Do you know Elvis Costello’s real name? Nope - nor did we!!!!!!
After dinner, the show in the Vista lounge that we saw was a trio of excellent Phillippino? singers - called ‘The Lion’s Den”. We went to their show on Thursday in the Princess Theatre and enjoyed it so much we went again - but they presented a completely different show this evening - fabulous singers who really know how to draw in the crowd - to receive standing ovations. There selection of songs was terrific - and had everyone tapping their feet, clapping and singing along.
Todays trivia question for you
Q: How many of the world’s ten highest mountains are in Asia?
A: All ten
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