En route to Fortaleza, Brazil- 4th day at sea
27 November 2007- Tuesday
4th of 4 days at sea on the way to Fortaleza, Brazil
I've got the best room on the ship! Out off the room and turn right I;m on deck, turn left and down the stairs I'm in reception, end of the hall- I can use my lap top wireless connection or down a flight of stairs and buffet dining- plus it's mid ships which means I feel no ship motion and it has been a really smooth crossing. So it was easy to run out to the back of the ship and get a good spot for crossing the equator at 10 am- ship blew 3 blasts at the exact moment- and I wanted to be able to photograph the GPS showing latitude 00:00. But got locked in at the rail with my video camera for the ceremony where King Neptune come aboard and people who never crossed the equator before get abused. So there were 3 victims, all of the female crew members in their bathing suits, because after sentence was pronounced they were put on a table and doused with meringue pies, baked beans, flour and what ever else they scrounged from the Kitchen and then threw them into the ships pool- of course they managed to drag others in also. Festivities lasted about 30 minutes- the duration of my DVD video and then the Filipinos had to drain and clean out the pool. Afternoon was a talk to a small group of interested people in to how to write and publish a book by Bill and Rosemary's friend. (Rosemary tried to sell me the book that she bought from this guy for 25 dollars because she doesn't like his writing style) It was interesting but not inspiring. By the way, Carlos, the babbling professor who's chief area of interest is the history of Brazil has also had some great titled lectures but I realize he never sticks to the topic and I rambles so badly I have to leave. At dinner tonight we each discussed our day and Ellen only had a salad and a cup of yogurt she saved from breakfast. There is only one show tonight and it Elena Ivanina, the Russian pianist. Tonight her AV guy is on the ball and she does a great program of Gounod, Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Tschaikovsky and Chopin. (I didn't know Bach had 21 children or that Mozart had a pointy nose and once wrote a composition where a note was so erratically placed he had to use his nose to play it.).The Manhattan was very good tonight and since we turned our clocks back for the time zone crossing, decided to finish off Rome.- HBO and BBC make a good team. Which reminds me that they do show big screen movies occasionally and one of them that I skipped was "Amazing Grace"- sounded girly, but today I found out that it is the life of Wilberforce, the guy who got England to ban the slave trade in 1830something? Anyway the title of the movie came from the hymn that was composed by an ex-slave ship captain who joined the Anglican church. I'm almost ready to join the trivia challenge that they have on the ship in the afternoon.
4th of 4 days at sea on the way to Fortaleza, Brazil
I've got the best room on the ship! Out off the room and turn right I;m on deck, turn left and down the stairs I'm in reception, end of the hall- I can use my lap top wireless connection or down a flight of stairs and buffet dining- plus it's mid ships which means I feel no ship motion and it has been a really smooth crossing. So it was easy to run out to the back of the ship and get a good spot for crossing the equator at 10 am- ship blew 3 blasts at the exact moment- and I wanted to be able to photograph the GPS showing latitude 00:00. But got locked in at the rail with my video camera for the ceremony where King Neptune come aboard and people who never crossed the equator before get abused. So there were 3 victims, all of the female crew members in their bathing suits, because after sentence was pronounced they were put on a table and doused with meringue pies, baked beans, flour and what ever else they scrounged from the Kitchen and then threw them into the ships pool- of course they managed to drag others in also. Festivities lasted about 30 minutes- the duration of my DVD video and then the Filipinos had to drain and clean out the pool. Afternoon was a talk to a small group of interested people in to how to write and publish a book by Bill and Rosemary's friend. (Rosemary tried to sell me the book that she bought from this guy for 25 dollars because she doesn't like his writing style) It was interesting but not inspiring. By the way, Carlos, the babbling professor who's chief area of interest is the history of Brazil has also had some great titled lectures but I realize he never sticks to the topic and I rambles so badly I have to leave. At dinner tonight we each discussed our day and Ellen only had a salad and a cup of yogurt she saved from breakfast. There is only one show tonight and it Elena Ivanina, the Russian pianist. Tonight her AV guy is on the ball and she does a great program of Gounod, Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Tschaikovsky and Chopin. (I didn't know Bach had 21 children or that Mozart had a pointy nose and once wrote a composition where a note was so erratically placed he had to use his nose to play it.).The Manhattan was very good tonight and since we turned our clocks back for the time zone crossing, decided to finish off Rome.- HBO and BBC make a good team. Which reminds me that they do show big screen movies occasionally and one of them that I skipped was "Amazing Grace"- sounded girly, but today I found out that it is the life of Wilberforce, the guy who got England to ban the slave trade in 1830something? Anyway the title of the movie came from the hymn that was composed by an ex-slave ship captain who joined the Anglican church. I'm almost ready to join the trivia challenge that they have on the ship in the afternoon.
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