Rubber Boats (Sea day)

Sea day. The fifth and last before Bermuda. All night long we had gone slightly south of the best course to Bermuda. That was so we could meet the Regent Navigator at sea on her way from FL to Madeira. At about 10:15 AM we did meet her.

The wind had died down to about nothing but there were some big swells. The captain of the Navigator had been the staff captain of this ship. The two ships did circles around each other and did the horn honking bit. Bobbi likes the loud deep sounding horns. Our ship played music on loud speakers that could be herd for miles. There were many people out on decks on both ships.

It was cool when the other ship got directly along side and the music echoed off it. It sounded like they were playing the same music a few seconds later and a bit softer. Then the Navigator let down an inflatable boat with outboards, as did we. Captain Dag got on and drove it. The two rubber boats raced around between the two ships for a while and then they paged Jamie, the cruise director, to come to the open door to the sea. He got in the water. It had to be cold. The air temperature was only about 65. Then he went skiing up and back between the two ships while Dag drove.

Bobbi was having her hair done at the time. She came out on deck just a floor below our suite. I took pictures of her wearing tin foil on her head. I knew she would like that. Finally, after playing for long enough, the Navigator took off and we did a U turn and went off in the opposite direction.

Tonight we had a party in the main theater. It was only for the world cruisers. They played part of a DVD they made of our cruise. I saw Bobbi on it twice. They are going to give us a copy of the DVD and then you will all have to watch it. After you watch that you have to watch the 7,000 pictures we took and put on CD. They also have about a dozen kids aboard. They showed tape of some funny stuff they did with them.

The ship’s orchestra played live. They put on a short show with all the singers and dancers from the theater company. There are also two couples that sing and play music, a singer from Latitudes restaurant, a classical guitar player, and two dancers. They all preformed and many from the crew sang. Jamie and the captain sang a couple of songs together. They better not give up their day jobs. Jamie read some comments from passengers. He had requested them and Bobbi had taken a couple of my blogs, that I send you, off the internet, and submitted them. There too were many sent in to be able to read them all, but he did include the two of mine. There was a third that was exactly the words I sent you and a fourth that was very close. I wonder if there are a couple of people plagiarizing my on line blog. I know of two on board that know about it. Anyhow, I guess my blogs must have been funny because they got big laughs.

It was a really good show and not one person left during the two hours it was on. I am going to miss this constant entertainment and some of the great people.

Happy Cruiser Sherm Out.