ST HELENA TO RIO (DAY1)
7 December 2006- Remember Pearl Harbor Day
1st of 5 full days at sea
This will be mercifuly short after all those long entries. The morning was usual breakfast at Raffles, and people watching. Mario, new steward had got my routine down so when I get back from a short stroll on deck, room is made up and I tackle making an album of my pictures of St Helena and captioning them. It's 11 before I realize it and head up to see an A&E movie about Napoleon- it's an hour and a half long and not very good, has more to do with his romances than with military campaigns. Lunch was my 2nd hamburger this trip- french fries soggy. Run into Phil and Linda who have choice seats on upper back deck but i's been an overcast morning. Have really gotten to hate Fox news channel- I keep the tv on while I'm editing and captioning and now I understand why the Brits and South Africans say it's the worst news and propagandizement they've ever seen. Afternoon more of the same and my calves are tightening up after that uphill trek from Napoleon's tomb. See, you hit 75 and the wheels fall off.
Duck for dinner, dry but flavorful. 7:30 in place for new entertainerMichael Chio- self described as Japanese, Chinese, Korean on is mother's side and Filipino, Malay and Comanche on father's side. How do you tell chinese and Japanese apart?- the ones with the cameras are Japanese. Anyway, he plays piano and electric keyboard and did his own arrangements of the classics with the Gnaddi orchestra ( the ship's band from Poland) as backup. Good show. Another episode of Lost which was depressing so ended evening with a dvd I brought along called "School Ties" which turned out to be a movie about anti-semitism and had Ben Affleck and his sidekick before they got the academy award. For the first time in 3 nights we did not have to turn our clocks back an hour (means I've had 2 consecutive nights of 9 hours sleep).
1st of 5 full days at sea
This will be mercifuly short after all those long entries. The morning was usual breakfast at Raffles, and people watching. Mario, new steward had got my routine down so when I get back from a short stroll on deck, room is made up and I tackle making an album of my pictures of St Helena and captioning them. It's 11 before I realize it and head up to see an A&E movie about Napoleon- it's an hour and a half long and not very good, has more to do with his romances than with military campaigns. Lunch was my 2nd hamburger this trip- french fries soggy. Run into Phil and Linda who have choice seats on upper back deck but i's been an overcast morning. Have really gotten to hate Fox news channel- I keep the tv on while I'm editing and captioning and now I understand why the Brits and South Africans say it's the worst news and propagandizement they've ever seen. Afternoon more of the same and my calves are tightening up after that uphill trek from Napoleon's tomb. See, you hit 75 and the wheels fall off.
Duck for dinner, dry but flavorful. 7:30 in place for new entertainerMichael Chio- self described as Japanese, Chinese, Korean on is mother's side and Filipino, Malay and Comanche on father's side. How do you tell chinese and Japanese apart?- the ones with the cameras are Japanese. Anyway, he plays piano and electric keyboard and did his own arrangements of the classics with the Gnaddi orchestra ( the ship's band from Poland) as backup. Good show. Another episode of Lost which was depressing so ended evening with a dvd I brought along called "School Ties" which turned out to be a movie about anti-semitism and had Ben Affleck and his sidekick before they got the academy award. For the first time in 3 nights we did not have to turn our clocks back an hour (means I've had 2 consecutive nights of 9 hours sleep).
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