Our First Monday

   We continue to sail along at around 20 knots as we are heading towards the International Date Line. Our first Monday refers to the fact that as we cross the line and continue to head east we will actually have Monday again tomorrow, something like the movie Ground hog Day. The sea remains relatively calm with some swells but not enough for white caps.

    We were up early again today but with the time change it starts to be reasonable. We started with zumba in the morning. We need to go early so Judy can get her spot on the floor. I just stay in the back and do the class from there. Anyway, before the exercise they have a 20 minute meditation session. We fell into it because we were early. So now we have a new calming session. We are not ready for the Tai Chi class before that. It is just too early.

    The morning was taken up with the naturalist talk on the glaciers of Alaska. Most of what she had to say was a review because it was part of the geography course that I taught. She did have some very nice photos. The next lecture was by Captain David Lethin who was a captain of his own boat fishing in the Bering Sea catching halibut and king crab. Of course he is a good story teller and he kept everyone in their seats for over an hour. He referenced the TV show on the Bering Sea fishermen that runs on the Discovery network. He seems to have retired from fishing and now uses his boat to do tours out of Juno for cruise passengers!

Dancing

    We had another time changes today and I think another tomorrow. Suddenly noon became 1 pm again. We ate in the dining room (we like waiters getting our food!). It is always interesting to hear about all the cruises that people have taken. Every day we hear a different story. There are 900 elite on the ship! We did go the line dancing class and they actually did something different. Of course it is very easy but at least they seemed to have retired some of the old standby dances (yea!). By then it was time for a bit of a relaxing in our cabin. Bingo and trivia are not on our radar.    Tonight there was the Country & Western Party. It was billed as something a bit different than the past. We went but did not see any change. If anything it was a bit more chaotic. They also had a Cinco de Mayo party the other night, something we had not seen before. Dinner was with the 1 remaining couple at our table. The other couple left after a few days (the man had a blow up) and they do not intend to come back. A Dolly Parton tribute show ended the night.