Monday, April 25

Again we slept very well. The sea was calm and we awoke to one of those pudding like smooth seas with some fog. I published the blog from yesterday and then Ken and I went to the dining room for breakfast. We were seated at a table with 3 people from Alberta, the Calgary area, and 2 people from Japan. Interestingly we saw the waiter give this couple a menu that was written in Japanese. They were very friendly people and they joined in the visiting as best they could. Her English was better than his and so she did some translating. They had been to Nova Scotia and he remembered Halifax. Apparently he was so impressed with Lunenburg when he was there that he wrote a song about it.

After breakfast Ken went to get sun and I went to the Princess Theatre for a presentation on I Pads. Even though I don’t own one I learned a lot and I can see an I Pad in my not too distant future. With one I could dictate the blog instead of 2 finger typing it.

After that lecture I checked out the ten dollar sale. I bought a sun visor. There was a wonderful red jacquard pashima there. A lady picked it up before I did and she discussed it with her friend. Well I followed her around for about fifteen minutes hoping she would put it down. She did not, I left without that red pashima.

Next event was to return to the state room to send a Happy Birthday message to Sylvia and watch a movie on the building of the Panama Canal.

There was a documentary on the stateroom television telling all about the building of the canal. We needed a refresher so we watched it again.

For lunch we went up to horizon court and I had a half sandwich and Ken had some fruit. We toured around some of the upper decks. I am impressed by the space and the small numbers of people in the public areas.

At one o’clock we went to deck 6 to play a game of Elevator roulette. It was fun. I won the first round and I now have another Princess Magnet clip.

We came back to the room and Ken stayed in the room and I decided to go to the Gems of the world lecture. I saw the most beautiful pendant of water colored sapphires and diamonds. I could not believe how beautiful was.

Dinner was the usual good time. We laughed and visited as usual. When dinner was over we all went together to Explorers Lounge and we played a game of Trivia. We won but we didn’t realize that we could only have 6 on the team and we actually had eight. It was decided that it would be overlooked this one time. The prizes were lanyards and clips. Ken and I have plenty of both so we didn’t take a prize.

Then we went upstairs, changed into our swim suits and went to the hot tub at the Lotus Pool. We practically had the place to ourselves. It was great.

We ended the evening back in the stateroom watching Hockey and Blogging.

Tomorrow it is Aruba!!