Well here we are! We don't know when we will be able to send this as the internet has been out for over a day and the excuse remains we are between satellites and need to switch over. More than once today I told someone from the ship that we have done may crossing in both the Atlantic and Pacific and although things might be slow we always were able to get a connection. We were down at the services desk and they immediately said that we are getting a credit for should not having the net. I suggested that Princess pay the bill! We asked about our package benefits which said that we were allowed gelatto but had been refused. Oh you are on the old package and this ship is using the new, more expensive updated one that started 2 weeks ago. However the information in our room never said that! Are we happy to still getting drinks or is that changed as well. Needless to say we are not very happy about the change. We really hope things improve!So we had another good night's rest waking just before 9 this morning. We missed the time for breakfast in a dining venue so we managed in the “World Market Place” a fancy name for buffet.
We did attend a lecture on Funchal (packed) but we have booked a full tour there. We have been to the city at least 2 times that I can remember so we are doing an around the island tour. We did attend the “Age of Discovery” lecture but Judy said it reminded her of her high school history class except she could not sleep in the class! A nice soup and sandwich lunch was followed by a “Cruising Through The Cosmos” which was very interesting. The speaker is an astronomer who just comments on the many wonderful universe photos. No notes as opposed to the other lecturer who reads everything. It made the day pleasant. One highlight is that we met 2 people from Ontario that we called 3 and 4. That is the number of Canadian we have met out of the 500 plus.
The final thing was line dancing in the crowded piazza. I did not expect much but they even “ruined” Jerusalea with some made up version. Having just taught that dance it was very hard to follow all the stuff in it. That ended the day.
It was formal night night tonight. Our snacks arrived early but they were not very tasty. Luckily I had a beer with me to help ease the pain! The champagne waterfall celebrations preceded dinner. There was a production show tonight “Rock Opera”. We had not seen this show before. It had all the bells and whistles that they like to put into a show with singing dancing costume changes, etc. Actually if there was a theme both Judy and I did not see one. Judy liked it me, not so much. After that we did take in the show by the comedian from the other night but we did not think his material was as good. In all it was a late night and then we had another time change. That makes the day very long!
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