March 6, 2020



At Sea



Rich (Judy [Lee]’s husband) and I wound yarn during Sit and Stitch and then I continued working on one of my four projects.  We decided to do a yarn crawl in Perth like the one Judy and Pete did in 2018.  We will visit four or five yarn stores.



In morning trivia we had 10 out of 15 and the winners had 13.

1.Born in Guelph, Lt. Col. John McCrae serving in the Canadian army in WWI, penned what poem?

2.In 2003, who became only the third Englishman ever to sign with Spain’s Real Madrid?

3.What is a “kissing gourami”?

4.Amsterdam’s official nickname is shared by several other cities.  What is it?

5.If you have Singultus, what do you suffer from?



After trivia I started project #5 which is a jacket made from some of the yarn I purchased in Auckland.  I also worked some on my current Linus blanket before lunch.  We made a kiwi greeting card in arts and crafts.



There has been lots of talk today about how the Captain’s Dinner was disappointing in one way or another – the food, the choices (or lack thereof), the time problems (some people who started at 5:15 did not get dessert until 7:30), etc.  I heard very few positive comments.



In afternoon trivia we had 11 out of 17 with the winners having 16.

1.Alphabetically, what animal always comes first?

2. Zanzibar is known for what spice?

3.Where did the rumba originate?

4.”Ghee” is what type of food?

5.What is the North American equivalent of a reindeer?



I left trivia as soon as we finished to go to the second cocktail party by my travel agency, Cruise Specialists.  I sat and talked with my dinner partners, Kathy and Mike. 



Diana, from our trivia team, always invites friends onboard to a birthday dinner in the Canaletto.  Sherita and I sat together.  We had a quiz to get to know Diana better which was a lot of fun.  The meal was really good.  Sherita and I shared the shrimp and lobster ravioli and lasagna.



We finished at about 8:30 so I went back to my cabin to work on the blog before going to the 9:30 show.  It was a performance by Brett Cave.  It was billed as a blend of “Elton John and Billy Joel’s high energy”. 



Morning trivia

1.In Flanders Fields

2.David Beckham

3.fish

4.Venice of the North

5.hiccups



Afternoon trivia

1.aardvark

2.cloves

3.Cuba

4.clarified butter

5.caribou



First of two days in Sydney tomorrow.

today's card

Smooth sailing until next time!