Wednesday 19th August- Mason has had a bit of a cold (sore throat and headache) and an infected toenail so has had a very quiet day today – feeling much better tonight and came to the dining room for dinner. Last night he missed the Captain’s cocktail party and dinner – I went with Glen & Alice. Had choir practice – our concert is on Saturday. We are also singing a medley of Irish songs on the deck, as we leave Cork, on Sunday. Visited the library to change books and to read the NZ news – as little as it is! The performer tonight was a young violinist – he was very good – I don’t know where they get all these great entertainers from and we have them night after night, with choices as well, each night. Managed to put all my photos, taken to date, on facebook. A bit of a mission to post them on my blog – I have been able to get only 4 at a time so think I might just continue to put on facebook and our news and a couple of photos only on my blog. We went over the site of the Titanic early last evening and the ship blew its horn. It has been fairly cold on deck today so not many people venturing outside and the sea has been a bit rough. The Atlantic Ocean has a surface of 41 million square miles and 78 million cubic metres of volume. It is the second largest water mass on Earth. It covers approximately one fifth of the Earth surface. We go another hour forward tomorrow – I have no idea what the difference is between us and NZ – have lost count!!
Thursday 20th August – We are 12 hours behind NZ time so hope we will be able to talk to everyone on Skype this weekend. Another wet, cold and rough sea day today so most people taking it easy and doing things around the ship. It was washing time again and I had two loads so it was a combined effort – I put them into the machine and Mason dried them while I went to choir practice. We will have to be good and do it each night for a while as we will be busy offshore just about every day once we hit Southampton. I took part in a Blackjack tournament this afternoon and made the leader board but got knocked off on the next round. I have always wanted to play the game in a Casino but not prepared to pay $5.00 a hand. This cost $20.00 all up and the seven with the most chips at the end (you were given $1000.00 worth) went into the final for a prize of $500.00. Quite a lot of fun – had a go on the slots after that and got most of my money back so virtually cost me nothing!! 5pm we are meeting Helen (Mason & Glen’s cousin) for a farewell drink as she will be leaving us in Southampton. Later – it was lovely to spend time with Helen before dinner – hopefully we will see her before she leaves us. After dinner we went to the show which featured Bob Arno, the World’s only legal pickpocket. He is the world’s foremost authority on street crime and ID fraud and will be giving a lecture tomorrow with real tips for travel today and what you need to know if you don’t want to be a victim. Apparently he lectures to Police and governments all over the world and conducts interviews with criminals. He was really funny as well and you wouldn’t believe what he took from people in the audience!!
Thursday 20th August – We are 12 hours behind NZ time so hope we will be able to talk to everyone on Skype this weekend. Another wet, cold and rough sea day today so most people taking it easy and doing things around the ship. It was washing time again and I had two loads so it was a combined effort – I put them into the machine and Mason dried them while I went to choir practice. We will have to be good and do it each night for a while as we will be busy offshore just about every day once we hit Southampton. I took part in a Blackjack tournament this afternoon and made the leader board but got knocked off on the next round. I have always wanted to play the game in a Casino but not prepared to pay $5.00 a hand. This cost $20.00 all up and the seven with the most chips at the end (you were given $1000.00 worth) went into the final for a prize of $500.00. Quite a lot of fun – had a go on the slots after that and got most of my money back so virtually cost me nothing!! 5pm we are meeting Helen (Mason & Glen’s cousin) for a farewell drink as she will be leaving us in Southampton. Later – it was lovely to spend time with Helen before dinner – hopefully we will see her before she leaves us. After dinner we went to the show which featured Bob Arno, the World’s only legal pickpocket. He is the world’s foremost authority on street crime and ID fraud and will be giving a lecture tomorrow with real tips for travel today and what you need to know if you don’t want to be a victim. Apparently he lectures to Police and governments all over the world and conducts interviews with criminals. He was really funny as well and you wouldn’t believe what he took from people in the audience!!
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