Monday July 15 – At Sea

We are sailing in a very isolated area of the North Atlantic Ocean where the closest land is Greenland.  The WiFi has not been reliable today and even at Tai Chi, the video went off for about ten minutes because of our lack of connection to the satellite.  However, we are all so good after two months that we were able to continue by ourselves.  The other thing about today is that we have been sailing through dense fog and the ship has had to sound the mournful fog horn every three minutes  It is quite eerie.  There is a bit of rocking with 2.5 m swells. 

 

Today, we continued with the Fox Trot and are feeling reasonably confident with it.  I have finally learnt to just be a follower and not try to lead and this actually works really well. 

Emily took us for line dancing and she is also taking the choir for this third segment of our trip.  There are only five rehearsals because from Dover to New York is quite short and there are several port days when people are out and about, so she is just doing an Abba medley. She is a lot of fun and has studied musical theatre.

I went to a talk on St. John’s, Newfoundland, today.  Our lecturer, Hutch, was late because he got the times mixed up.  Little wonder as we have put our clocks back an hour on three consecutive nights now!  As a result of this lecture, we have booked a private tour with O’Brien’s whale and puffin tours.  I hope we are lucky.  Evidently, it is whale watching time up here.

We were invited to another cocktail party by the Captain but this time we did not win the champagne.  However, the two people sitting next to us did.  We keep meeting new people and tonight we met Fred who comes from LA and organises musical concerts.  He is travelling alone on the world cruise, Sydney to Sydney because his wife could not get that much time off work.  When he reaches Sydney, she will join him and they will go to Adelaide and catch the Ghan up through the centre.  After dinner we were entertained by Dan Delgado, a Spanish trumpet player, who celebrated the music of Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert and (as he put it) everything in between them.  We keep saying how lucky we are to have such good entertainers on board.