Sun. Aug. 18 a

A blog without pictures. I am having trouble posting.

I ate breakfast with an Australian couple from Brisbane. This was their 44th cruise. They are staying on the ship after Amsterdam and crossing to New York and doing the Leaf Peeper cruise to Quebec. Then they are flying to Seattle and cruising back to Australia. That last part takes 4 weeks. They were proud of the fact that on the Princess cruises they have done enough that they get free laundry! Big Whoop!

Today was a sailing day. Thank goodness that there are not too many of them. People seem to wander around from one silly activity to another. I went to the Faberge talk. On display were some OK eggs, but I have seen the REAL THING, and these were not it. The guy giving the talk was trying to tell people that since the Tsar paid only about $1000 for his egg and Malcolm Forbes sold his eggs for many millions, the eggs that he was selling were going to appreciate that much also. The terrible thing is I think that some people believed him. (Of course, the Franklin Mint people do the same thing.)
For lunch, Ana and I joined 4 other knitters for dim sum at one of the "special" restaurants aboard. The only choice was dessert. We had soup, several steamed and fried dims (or is it sums?) and fried rice. I had mango sorbet for dessert. It was merely ok. We had made a reservation for later in the cruise, but are giving it away.
In the afternoon there were tango lessons.
They taught everyone a routine and then picked the best four. The four were then paired with pros and we picked the best 2. These were then going to compete with finalists from other lessons some night. The 2 best were an Asian brother and sister from Pennsylvania.

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