May 13, 2012 -at sea

May 13, 2012 -at sea

Today is Mother's Day and the ship is having a special brunch "Dolce Vita" in the dinning room.

Both Evelyn and I walked the track this morning, I did a mile and Evelyn did two. We had coffee in the buffet before the bridge lecture. After the lecture we all did the brunch.

It was the best food presentation that I have seen on either this cruise or the last one. We sat at a table for eight with two other couples and had an enjoyable experience. My guess is that the majority of the passengers are over 60 and it is interesting how we have so much collective knowledge that we can solve most of the world problems. We missed trivia and heard later in the day that because of us not being there the remainder of the team lost. Who knows...

After the brunch Evelyn and I sat on our balcony and read until it was time for bridge. The weather continues to be great, calm seas, low humidity with the temperature in the low 80s.

At bridge we again felt that we played well, but as of now we don't have the results.

We are eating in the dinning room tonight, but will go down around 6:30pm. We have early seating but the service is quick and we can still be out before 8pm, which gives the staff time to setup for the late seating.

Barry Hilton is back with another show, but we may skip it.

Tomorrow we cross the equator and we will not longer be pollywogs but become shellback I think, more tomorrow.

After dinner we decided to see the show and Mr. Hilton was much funnier then his first show, so I'm glad we went. After the show we listened to Sammy Goldstein, a piano entertainer, in the casino lounge. He tries to remember your name by association. I'm "Hal the computer" from 2001 and Evelyn is "Evelyn Keys" the movie star. He is entertaining. We stopped by the "50's & 60's Sock Hop Party" for a few minutes.

We did much better in bridge coming in the middle of 8 teams.

I think my phone was hacked in Namibia. I had a voice mail and when I called there was nothing, then I started get email returns. I sorry if it caused a problem. I will not answer any voice mails until I get home. If You have to call on my cell while I am away, please just call and hang up and it will show up as a "missed call" and I know who it is I'll call back, but the easiest way to contact us is by email.


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Hal