Perfect Day

One of the mantras of the ship is "How could it get any better than this?"




Well, it starts like this.  We moved to a different time zone, so we get an extra hour of sleep or in my case an early start to the day to see a spectacular sunrise.

Then you get to do some early morning walking on the deck for exercise, joined by great students like Rachel and Abigail ( who is turning 21 as I write this--happy birthday).

Then I get to exercise vicariously with another group out on deck at 6:15 am without having to break a sweat.

And an opportunity to thank the great crew who secretly care for the ship every hour of the day.
Breakfast was French toast with some of my best friends. mmmmmmmm

And off to work where Vanessa had arrived early and already opened the library.  That was great because we had the busiest day in the library so far, and I love busy days in the library.  We were filled to lying room only.

There was no Global Studies yesterday, so, although I love Global Studies, that gave everyone time to go to the library or catch up on work. The afternoon was overcast which made a great atmosphere to eat out on the deck at lunch with Shepherd's Pie as the main course--a South Africa dish.  A smoothie in the afternoon and a cookie with one of our adopted kids was great.

Then the Pièce de résistance was the Captain's dinner.  Faculty and staff have the opportunity at some point to have dinner with the Captain and some of his staff.  This is a very fancy multi-course dinner where we dressed up and were served excellent wine.  Captain Roman is a very charming man so I had to keep a close eye on Nancy.  We sat at his table and got to ask all kinds of stupid questions and hear great stories.  I told him that my friend Mary Johnston had assured me that the librarian gets to steer the ship at some point on the voyage and he said that sure that's a tradition.  I'm anxiously awaiting his call.