December 4 - Mid Atlantic

Captain Tasos has set a more southerly course and the seas have been very calm today.  The waves are about 1m to 1.5m in height.  The oceans depth is 4km.  The temperature is very comfortable but there is still a strong breeze.

Marg started the morning with a visit to the spa, where she had a massage and a beauty treatment.  I went to the Spa’s healthy breakfast buffet where I had Apple Cider Oatmeal and a chocolate beet muffin.  It tasted better than it sounds.  I then visited the gym to get back into the weight lifting exercises for my tendonitis.  The gym has most of the equipment that you would find in a regular gym, except it is just a scaled down version.

I’m not sure if it is cruising in general or just this particular cruise, but there seems to be a significant number of older gay couples on board.

In our trivia tournament we finished fourth in the today’s round.  It was questions based on music and movies spanning the period from the 1940’s to today. So we are still in contention for the championship.

Every afternoon "Friends of Bill W" meet.  It turns out that this code for AA.  I'm not sure if this is an universal code or just for this cruise.  I can't imagine how hard it must be for a member of AA to have all this alcohol available.

There were two shows for this evening entertainment.  The first show was called White Magic, which was an illusionist and his partner who was a contortionist.  The magician was good but the contortionist was great.  She would not have been out of place in any starring role at any Vegas show.   For her climax act she balanced her whole body on a thin rod by only using her mouth to grab onto the rod.

After dinner we went a show called the Liar’s Club.  On the panel were the captain, the cruise director named JC and the activity director named Mark.  They were given four obscure words and they had to come up with a definition.  Each of them is a very talented joke/story teller.  It made for a hilarious hour of entertainment as they gave us their definitions and told us their associated stories.

I think that captain must have some groupies in female staff.  At the liars club I saw several females in the audience who were much younger than the average passenger.  I can only conclude that they were part of the staff, whose duties had concluded for the day.


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