November 12 - At sea day three

I’ll probably bore you because there’s absolutely nothing exciting going on. Late yesterday afternoon I saw a ship way off on the horizon that seemed to be paralleling our course. Even I can’t make up a story that it was a pirate ship or something remotely exciting. If it was a cargo ship, she might as well take her time because she’ll be hanging out at a port for a long time waiting to unload. 

 Last night I had a lovely evening. Our trivia team went to the Liar’s Club before dinner. If you haven’t been to one let me explain. Four members of the ship’s staff are the “liars.” They are given 5 words and must give their definition. The audience has to determine who is telling the truth. The liars make up usually outrageously funny definitions and last night was no exception. The one who had us laughing so hard we thought we’d cry was Zoran, the Hotel Manager from Croatia. He was the only one of the four in uniform and he kept reminding us that since he was in uniform we must know he was telling the truth. You probably don’t care but I have to tell you about one of the words “nuddle.” Zoran with a completely serious face explained to us that nuddle came from the hippies in southern California in the 70’s. He explained the word "nuddle" was from  the root “nude” and the hippies would walk, sunbathe and play beach volleyball on the beaches in the nude. He continued to tell us that as the young men walked and played a part of their anatomy would “nuddle.” I think everyone laughed until their sides nearly split. I wanted us to vote for him just  because he was so very funny.  Not that we’ll ever need it but nuddle means to walk quickly forward with your head bent downward. 

 After Liar’s Club I joined the sisters for dinner. The food was good but the company was better. They are from some place in Connecticutt and I think they are all married but they take off for a cruise once in a while. After dinner there was a Latin show which was quite good. Katie, you would have enjoyed it. 

 Overnight we turned back the clocks again and I think we may be 3 hours off EST but I honestly don’t know for sure. At the moment I can’t figure out how to get online. I’ll take care of that after trivia. More later… 

 Today we've had some pitching fore and aft but not too bad and it has been cloudy. Around 2 PM there was to be a serenade by the pool with caviar and champagne. At almost exactly two it poured so that was that. They'll reschedule for another day. This evening there was a party for Seabourn Club members. There are 185 of us who have sailed with Seabourn before. Collectively we have more than 31,000 sailed days! I can't imagine; that's a lot of years. One couple received a bouquet of flowers and a crystal vase. They've sailed 1035 days. I'll never make it that far. I had a nice dinner with some ladies I met the other day. I wanted to go to hear the violin virtuoso after, but all this doing nothing is tiring me out. I'll have to learn to pace myself better. I took some photos of the sea, but they are so boring they're not worth posting. That's it for tonight. Until tomorrow.