South America Cruise Dec 2014 Day 4 - On A 4 Day Run To Costa Rica

        Another early morning! We have started the first of a 4 day run to Costa Rica. For some reason (I can probably guess) we are dead tired at night but up early this morning. There is no Zumba certified instructor available on this cruise which is something that I was looking forward to. We have had them on the last 3 cruises! Anyway we decided that since today was going to be hot, we decided to do an early morning walk. Actually there are people up at such an early hour. OK 7 isn't that early. Just as we finished our 30 minute jaunt, we spotted some foam on the nearly flat ocean. Then again. Then the breaching whale, then the spot, etc. Actually it was not that far from the boat. It certainly made the morning special.

Tango Lesson

      After a light breakfast the morning passed quite quickly. There is a tango couple on board. They are the same ones as the last time we were here. We went to their tango lesson. The place was packed with 150? crowded into a space about the size of our living room. We did get the basic steps after a couple who knew how to tango showed. We wee so far back that we could not see the steps. They also talked on forever. In any case we did spend an hour at the lesson.

    We decided to go to the dinning room for lunch and were entertained by a recently retired professor from Michigan and an Australian couple from north of Sydney. He had been a tour guide in his youth and some of the stories were quite funny. He said that he answered the same questions many times a day and when he did not know the answer simply made it up.

      We attended a session (lecture) on solving cold cases. The first lecture the other day was on CSI shows and the techniques that they use. Today it was on how DNA testing started, how it is down, the markers that they look for, etc. He was a bit technical but it was very interesting. He then went into how they are able to solve cold cases using evidence gathered years ago, including how they are able to link murders that seemed to have been committed by different people. The oldest cold case solved was from 1967. Most of these old cases have been solved in the last 3 years.

 

At The Pool

   
A very basic line dance followed (we learned the Wobble!) and a swim finished the afternoon. We did meet up with a New Zealand couple that we had talked to before ad had a relaxing chat before dinner. After dinner we did go to a show. We have seen the singer before and she was quite entertaining. Neither of us fell asleep this time. Another hour time change was in order for overnight!