MONDAY, FEB 15TH--AT SEA

Sorry, I am a day behind on posting but yesterday as a busy sea day. Will do yesterday’s post before leaving on excursion this morning. Ok, was a sea day after missing the port of Thursday Island. Once again ocean was fairly smooth and it was a warm, sunny day. After sleeping in, we went to “Coffee Connection” for coffee around 10am and visited with a couple from San Diego. At noon there was meeting of private pilots and airplane owners so I attended that. There were about 8 of us with varying backgrounds. By far I had the most flying hours. Our friends from San Francisco showed me a picture of their 8 passenger airplane. WOW! It was one nice airplane. At lunch Jane, friend from Las Vegas, as me to help her download Skype in her laptop. I told her to bring it to where games were being played as I was going to play “baggo” at 2pm and “top toss” at 3pm. Jane ended up also playing the games and think she is now hooked on playing. Took me two hours to get Skype downloaded so that worked out good. Last evening was formal night and there was cocktail party at 6pm for all the “Seven Seas Society” members. There are over 600 members on the ship now. We were in for a surprise as Michael’s (the hotel general manager) wife sang 3 songs with the band. She is a very lovely lady, ex Miss California and had sang on Broadway. What a lovely voice and hopefully she will sing for us again some night. At 7pm we met Norman and Cathy for cocktails in the Observation Lounge. Also joining us was the Australian singer, Peter Cousens. He will be leaving the ship today, here in Darwin. We all were treated to a beautiful sunset but none of us had brought our cameras. Norman & Cathy moved from South Africa to the Miami area a few years ago and are two of the few WC passengers younger than us. It was a great night and really enjoyed the conversation. We talked so much that we were late getting to the showroom. Ship’s singers and band put on “Jazz Legends” show.