February 28, 2017

     This is Sea Day #2. The clocks went an hour forward overnight and go forward another hour tonight getting to Adelaide time, but 30 minutes out, as in Darwin in the last cruise.  South Australia and Northern Territory are in the same time zone, which is only 30 minutes different from Melbourne and Sydney.

     The sky was a light gray this morning with a wind of 35 km per hour and cool temperature of 18 C.  The waves were rolling with about two meter troughs and peaks.  The depth to the bottom is about 4,700 meters. We needed our windproof jackets for walking on any outside deck today. Today is Pancake Tuesday. We stopped after 4 km for coffee in the Windjammer to warm up.

   Lunch was in the dining room with two American couples and a couple from Australia.  We went to a talk about improving your memory and a Foxtrot lesson.  We watched the lesson since it was beginner steps and there were about 26 couples on the crowded dance floor.  The rest of the afternoon was spent reading and in the casino, before returning to the Colony Club to dance to the dance instructor’s recorded ballroom music along with Bob and Maureen and Tom and Mary, who also are seasoned ballroom dancers.

    We walked with Bob and Maureen to dinner and joined the others.  Appetizers this evening were Corn and Potato Frittata, Bergen’s Fish Veloute and Roasted Cauliflower Risotto Cake, the main course was a cheese, potato and leek quiche with lingonberry sauce or North Cape Flounder with boiled potato green beans.  The desserts chosen were Expresso Cheesecake and Apple Pie with vanilla ice cream.

   We dance after dinner to the Traffle Duo before going to the evening show featuring Craig Dahn, an entertaining classically trained pianist with a great repertoire, including pieces such as Flight of the Bumblebee, the original 1925 score and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theme from Phantom of the Opera, and classical William Tell Overture.

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