Well I decided today that I was having a rest day as I am tired from 3 days trooping around on land. We now have 7 sea days in a row so am starting off by resting my body before I attack the gym again tomorrow.
I overheard a guy talking in the pool the other day whose wife had just received an email to say that she had one the major prize in an art union type lottery in NZ. The prize was a fully furnished house valued at over $500,000. Apparently his wife was organizing a bottle of champers for their dinner table. I also heard that a couple was seen running down the wharf in Adelaide just as the ship was further than stepping distance from the wharf. The captain waited an extra hour for them but not quite long enough. I heard that they then spent about 18 hours in a train to get to Fremantle as they could not get a flight. Our young table companions arranged to stay off the ship in Fremantle and hired a car then drove to the Margaret River spending a night there and a night in Perth before flying to Bali and spending a night there then rejoined the ship. It was his birthday a couple of days ago and his wife bought him a TAG watch from the shop on the ship!!
I went to my usual art class that are only on on sea days. The retired detective is hosting a murder mystery week where we there are 6 suspects that will be interviewed over the next week. We are in a team of 8 which is our dinner group. The aim is to find out who dunnit from information that we will be given over the next 7 days. It is quite well done. He even showed us a video of the “murdered” person lying on a bed in our hotel room in Singapore to set the scene. A lot of people are taking it very seriously and asking questions as though it is a real murder!!
Tonight is black tie night so we are all dressed ready to go and listen to some pre dinner music. We are booked into the special restaurant (where you have to pay) tonight so Lobster will be what I will be ordering.
We will probably go to the show tonight which is a pop duo called “The Merseys” performing music from the 60’s.
Hope all are well and love to all.
Xo
PS: We are both still well and fighting off the dreaded cough although one of our dinner companions was just getting symptoms last night.
AAh - the dreaded Arcadia cough - probably a mutation the strain that we left behind :).
ReplyDeleteThe retired detective sounds like he may be the same bloke as we had onboard in early 2011- ask him. Langkawi looks nice.
Hi Shaz and Pete
ReplyDeleteHave come back from Bali with the dreaded flu and hacking cough, so have just caught up with all your blogs, which are great. Keep up the good work with the eating, drinking and general cruising style that you have become accustomed to. I do believe that wine kills almost all bugs, so take good amounts each day. Look what happened to me when I stopped!Be safe and as always, happy cruising. Jules xxxx