September 12 - Rainbows and Red Moon Rising, Odds and Ends

Today is another of those catch-up days when I don’t have anything significant to talk about.  On September 10 we docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  I’d been there last year and my friend Kathie picked me up and gave me a tour of the island. This year it was my intention to go ashore and walk along the boardwalk in downtown old Halifax.  I looked out from the stern of our ship and I saw two huge ships tied up next to us and a horde of people on the sidewalks. Downtown here isn’t very big and I decided to stay aboard.  I just didn’t feel like fighting crowds to see someplace I’d already seen. Maybe I’m getting jaded. Who knows?  Instead I had a lovely day talking with friends, answering emails and generally relaxing. In the evening I went with two new friends, part of our lunch group, for dinner at Solis the alternative restaurant.  We had a good time and in fact closed the place down. We went from dinner to the Club where we danced and laughed a lot.

That's just one of the ships docked near us. You can just get a tiny glimpse of the other one on the far left.  

Yesterday was our last sea day and there were the usual sea day activities.  I’m happy to say that our team, the Smartinis, won the cumulative trivia contest.   I won some more Seabourn swag which I will dispose of before I get off on Sunday.  The show last night featured one of my favorite entertainers in the world, Sam Bailey.  She won Britain’s X Factor, the equivalent of American Idol.  Besides having a fantastic voice she is one of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet.  I stayed up late after the show talking to one of my new friends Joyce. Among other things we talked about a not so happy subject, the senseless killing of Charlie Kirk.  I don’t watch or read much news here, but that popped up on everyone’s phone.  I don’t care what one’s political persuasion is; everyone should be revolted by such an action. People who have been celebrating it must be evil in my opinion.

Enough about that.  Today we’re in Boston and my family is coming to visit me on the ship very soon.  I’m looking forward to that and I’ll write about how that goes soon.

I entitled this “Rainbows and Red Moon Rising” because two friends sent me photos they got in the last few days of both, and I thought I’d include them.  As we sailed away from Baie-Comeau, Chester, my favorite Bar Manager saw a beautiful rainbow across the water and managed to get some pictures of it.  We didn’t find the pot of gold at the end unfortunately.

Last night my friend Joyce went out on deck and got some pictures of a red moon rising in the sky.  It’s truly amazing how many things one can see in the night sky when at sea where there’s no ambient light to interfere.

Hard to see here, but the moon looked really red.

Katie et al are coming aboard shortly so I'd better go and get ready to meet them. TTFN.