Another day at sea found us with temperatures in the low 80's and partly cloudy skies in the early morning. At breakfast, it was nice to see the sun shining brightly as the walkers passed by our window on deck three. By the way, they have run out of fresh-squeezed orange juice, the regular Greek yogurt, and some of the mixed berries. Very soon, only blueberries will be left. And those will disappear shortly afterwards. We have to appreciate them when we have them, which we do. The substitute orange juice is not bad at all. And it still makes a tasty mimosa.
The usual activities took place onboard with a port talk on East London, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. If all goes according to plan, we will miss those two ports, which were new to us, because we will be on a safari until the second day of Cape Town. Hard to do it all, we will rely on our tablemates for the stops we missed.
Ian interviewed our guest speaker, Daniel Silke, and a movie, Mary And Martha, was shown in the Word Stage at 1pm. But the biggest question of the day was tonight's activity. As well as a formal night, the third one so far, the theme of the evening was "Surprise Night". Well, this is a new one on us, and most of the other folks. We are guessing the surprise was a party with the crew. It was suggested that after dinner at 9pm, you could come dressed casual, formal, or surprise dress (that can be dangerous to suggest). This is to be held in the Lido pool-side with DJ Nyron with recorded music. The club-like ambience will come with complimentary sparking wine and other drink specials. Truthfully, we cannot imagine a whole lot of guests will participate, but we could be wrong. Of course, after dinner, most folks would not consume a lot of alcohol….not like if it was a pre-dinner cocktail party. So there is a method to their madness. In addition, a crew-style late night snack will be offered in the Lido restaurant with live music by Billboard Onboard.
As for the two of us, we had a surprise night by not attending dinner or the special event. We had a lazy day, but did not feel up to doing the formal thing. So we stayed in and ordered a light dinner from room service. One thing we did learn was that we could not order food from the Lido dinner buffet, as we were told the waiter would have to stand in line with the guests and that was not allowed. There is no behind the scenes place for the waiters to get food from there to the rooms.
For a change, we watched a movie, Elvis, which turned out to be so long, we will have to watch it in two parts. So far, it was a good movie.
The clocks went back another hour, so we should be well rested by tomorrow. One more day at sea, and we will be in Mozambique. Oh yes…..we had gifts tonight, which were two power banks for charging small devices. We had SO hoped for the small piece of luggage, which we know the Grand Africa folks received. Sure would have been useful for the overland for many of us. Old saying……beggars cannot be choosers.
Bill & Mary Ann
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