SATURDAY, FEB 27TH--AT SEA

We enjoyed our dinner in Prime 7 last night and the fantastic show with the Broadway songs by JR. Prior to dinner we had another “block party” and took a couple pictures that I will upload to the blog as soon as I can. Rebecca was feeling dizzy so went back in suite after about 15 minutes. Not sure what that was all about as she was ok a few minutes later and did go to dinner. We are cruising in the southern portion of the South China Sea today on our way to Brunei. Brunei has extensive off shore oil drilling making it a very rich country. Actually, it is ruled by a Sultan who is the richest man on the Earth. He had a $300,000,000 palace built for himself, his two wives, and 11 children. His 400,000 countrymen enjoy a very high standard of living and most services, ie, education and health care are provided free. Internet and FOX News channel are not available today due to a satellite problem. Both are feeds from the same satellite. Not sure if it will be back up today or not so am writing this on a Word program and will cut and paste it on blog when satellite is available again. We went to a 10am lecture by Sandra Bowern titled, “South-East Asia, Brunei, and the Philippines”. Then at 11am I attended lecture by Professor Sheldon Simon, an Asian politics specialist, entitled “An Overview of Asia in World Politics”. Both lectures were very good and nice to learn some things about what we will be seeing during the World Cruise. Then at noon I went to an informal meeting for veterans of the Armed Services. We had 7 guys there. Peter, from Great Britain, was most interesting as he was part of the British force that landed on Sword Beach during the D-Day Invasion. I could have listened to his stories about D-Day all day long. So for lunch today we dined in our suite on a Slim Fast bar. We have to cut back on all this eating. I have not mentioned the sailing conditions for several days. That’s because we have had smoooooooth sailing with lots of sun. Ship’s internet was down last night and all day today. Technician and parts are being flown to meet us in Brunei.