Very busy day with Many Special Activities-

Highlights for today were: Future voyage presentation providing an Oceania view of the current and future routes and expansion, Sing Out Loud practice, Scottish Country Dance Class with Casey and Robbie and Lecture on the "Mysteries of Easter Island", then the Escape Room, Oceania Club Party, Dinner at Toscana with Ruth and Keith and the show "Music Triangle- a Documentary in Concert."

The Scottish Country Dance Class with Casey and Robbie were a chance for our favorite couple to show how their culture and skils are coming together as one of Robbie’s traditional dances and one they did at their wedding came together in a a class that Casey, a great dance instructor, taught us. Scottish "ceilidh halls" are venues where traditional ceilidh gatherings take place. These halls serve as community spaces for social events, featuring live music, dancing, and storytelling, often rooted in Gaelic traditions. Ceilidhs can occur in various settings, from village halls in the Highlands to larger venues in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh. Even Karen & I did this dancing... not well, but did it (see photos of others as we were dancing and didn’t get photos of us, but you’ll get the idea).

The lecture on the "Mysteries of Easter Island" was important and personal to James (see separate posting). We had great fun in the Escape Room along with a family of 3. We all worked together and over the first two days of competition, only a few couples had done it in 15 minutes and many did not finish at all in the 25 minutes allocated. We did it in 13 minutes and 34 seconds (we were in first place, at least until the end of day 2)!!! SO much fun.

The Oceania Club Party was lovely as always as we got to meet the officers and the most traveled passengers, many that we already knew from ATW23, Dinner this evening was at Toscana with Ruth and Keith. I think the food was fantastic but of course we never have Italian food anymore so of course pasta and bread and good wine and Osso Bucco and dover sole (see video) not to mention a quartet of desserts was out of this world! We really enjoyed the show "Music Triangle- a Documentary in Concert" this evening too even though we had seen it before. Great ideas and history of Music through song.Meer informatie