Day 57 at sea; March 3, 2011
Yesterday was another day of sailing. I worked and taught and was invited to have dinner with one of my students. She is an amazing person with a colorful past like many of the people on board. She has written a children’s book—self published. Oh the stories she has. I’m encouraging her to write her memoirs. We had complimentary wine with dinner—to make up for not stopping at Palau. Since she has late dinner seating, I ended up going to the 10 pm show—a wonderful master guitarist. Francis Diatschenko from Australia. We are so privileged to be entertained by artists from all over the world.
Today (day 57 at sea) we had a silent art auction to raise money for the Hospicio de San Jose, the first welfare agency in the Philippines. The paintings were done by the watercolor students here on board and the auction raised $1600. Watercolor classes are offered twice a day on sea days. I have not been able to take advantage of them as the timing hasn’t worked for me.
$10,000 so far has been donated for the Red Cross to help earthquake victims in Christchurch. We’ll be sending that in on the 6th.
We have another formal night tonight and Ron doesn’t want to go again. I don’t blame him in a way as the dinners are rather long. He got up at four am this morning to run. So he gets up way too early for me. I tell him he can do what he wants, but I am going to the formal dinner. I rather enjoy them. We have Tamara Guo “A Superstar Throughout Asia and a Singing Sensation” is performing tonight. In the Queen’s Lounge. Then later at ten is the Royalty Ball. I don’t know who is reigning, but will probably go for a bit to see what’s happening. If I can stay awake.
Tomorrow Manila.
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