Wednesday, January 22 - At Sea

 It's really getting warm now, even at sea.  We thought about eating breakfast on the fantail outside the buffet, but it was just too hot.  However, it's better than at home where the high today is supposed to be around 18, so no complaints.

Terry Bishop's lecture today was "Royalty in Exile - Portugal moves to Brazil and back again!  Travel Agent - Napoleon Bonaparte".  I wish I'd had him as a history teacher because he really makes history come alive.  He gave us an update on James, the lecturer with the medical emergency.  They are friends, so Terry has been keeping up with James' progress.  He had his surgery which went well and will be released from the hospital in a few days.  He's been there a week already, but will have to stay in Cayenne, French Guiana for another week after discharge before flying back home.  Yikes.  Another argument for making sure you have good medical insurance when traveling.

And Bill Lee's lecture today, "What Time Is It? Nobody Knows", was written in the daily Passages as 9:45 am, but put in the schedule in the 3 pm timeslot.  Rather ironic.  I went at 9:45 not knowing which was correct.  (If we'd watched Cruise Director Andrew's morning show, we'd have known it was 3 pm.  Sorry, Andrew.)  Since there were only about a dozen of us there at 9:45, Bill apologized for the confusion and did a very informal discussion on anything we wanted to discuss.  It was lots of fun and it was nice to have the personal interaction,  Then he did his regular lecture at 3 pm.  I think I have a better idea of how physicists look at time.  Maybe...

Tonight is Krew Kapers where the crew put on a show.  We will be missing it this time because we've seen it a many times and we have dinner reservations at Chartreuse at 6:30 so we'd have to leave early anyway.  We'll be sure to attend at the end of our cruise since they do it after each segment. 

This is Prime 7, the steakhouse

Interesting tile floor outside Prime 7

 Another decent day at Trivia with 12/15 for one point. 

 

We had sharing table reservations at Chartreuse, but actually considered canceling after our last less than delightful experience.  To answer the question of what went wrong, one of the other couples had done several OAT (Overseas Adventure Travel) tours, which are land tours.  She kept comparing the excursions here to those tours.  "OAT never would have allowed the guide to do that."  Or complaints about the tour spending 3 hours at the beach and only 40 minutes at the shopping market.  Well, if they had read the description thoroughly, that is exactly what it said it was going to do.  I had no sympathy.  The other couple were a did a bit of whining also, though not as bad.  Tonight was totally different.  Mark and Karen from Connecticut were delightful.  This was Mark's first ever cruise and Karen had only done Disney before.  And they signed up for the 150-day World Cruise without ever having sailed with Regent!  They both treated the restaurant staff very well, which to me says a lot about the kind of person you are.  They were so positive about everything and appreciative, even if things didn't go exactly as planned.  It restored our faith in sharing tables.

I made it to the show tonight as I wanted to see Lisa Marie Holmes in a show with her significant other, Josh Henderson.  It was a bit disappointing.  He isn't as strong as she is and I thought their song selection could have been better, but I did stay until the last number.  They get off in Rio.