Paula managed the port lecture – Phuket. Useful, as we haven’t been before.
Morning quiz and we had a slight reshuffle, teaming up with Alex & Terri and managed a little better than the other half! We didn’t win.
After a morning coffee in the atrium we headed for Corey’s merengue dance class. It’s an easy dance to learn, yet in NZ we rarely see anyone dancing it. Lots of fun – as it should be then we managed to catch the last few minutes of the Parisienne buffet, with a nice selection of cheeses and pate.
We rarely buy the ship’s photographs, but this time, we were both pleased with the results of the formal night – so we bought them, plus a small tripod for the camera. Quite a clever little one which copes well with odd surfaces and can even wrap around a tube!
We didn’t win the afternoon quiz either… Is this getting repetitive?
During the afternoon, we had a call from the front desk, just confirming that they had had communications with the Indian officials and that without visas, we couldn’t get off the ship in Mumbai. Oh dear. What a shame. Just to emphasise the point, it was an Indian meal in the restaurant for dinner. Nice. Thoroughly enjoyable beef jalfraize (which you don’t get in most Indian restaurants of course), but I would have also have enjoyed sampling the chicken tandoori and even the mushroom korma, but Paula did pass over a few prawns.
The first production show – “Shimmy” which we have seen before, but as I keep saying, a 45 minute show, even a repeat is often fine by us.
We managed a dance or two to the Crimson Duo before turning our watches and clocks back one hour for the first of several times on this cruise. In theory that should mean waking up an hour earlier tomorrow. The photograph shows a somewhat deserted atrium at just after 11pm. The crowd that go to listen to the pianist, David, are obviously not night-owls.
Friday
Have we really been away a week already? An hour’s extra sleep? Nah. Two hours!!! Too late for the port lecture but just right for a Horizon Court breakfast with plenty of places to sit, so not all bad.
Guess what? We didn’t win morning trivia.
Corey’s dance class today was an introduction to the salsa.
The (repeated) TV movie today was the Italian Job (the remake) which we eventually managed to see in 4 chunks – but still missed one section!
The early show tonight was Trevor Knight, again, this time with his John Denver show. Trevor had worked with John Denver and they were good friends so the personal anecdotes made it another interesting show than a straight tribute show. One of the improvements we are now seeing with some of these shows is the subtle use of modern electronics. Trevor’s show was a good example, as the i-pod backing tracks that he could control and also electronics to basically make his single voice into several voices, added a new dimension to the one man show genre. Trevor always seems to be a 9/10 performer on his
After a good dinner we managed the second Donna Campbell show. Once again, really enjoyable and well produced. Another 9/10 performer and performance then the end of the Italian Job film.
Just two more sea days before we hit land.
When we were on Dawn earlier this year Trevor Knight was the Cruise Directorn he never did any shows though
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