April 4 thru April 8, 2010, 2010 Sea Days
The night before we got to Rio de Janeiro we saw an oil drilling rig that was lit up like a giant Christmas tree. Another rig could be seen from our foyer in Rio and another out at sea the next morning. An albatross flew along starboard side for several miles as if it was an escort. The temperature has been about 80 degrees lately.
We haven’t had ESPN since the conference tournament week then we got it Saturday night. Unfortunately we didn’t discover this until Butler had already won. We did see most of Duke’s win. Monday we watched Butler’s courageous effort. Close doesn’t count or show how great a game it was.
Our last wine tasting (fourth) was Monday afternoon. We attended our last Captain & Senior Officers’ cocktail party & then attended a new production by the Cunard singers & dancers.
Entertainment has been very good with a comical magician Friday night (& again Monday afternoon) and a comical juggler Monday night. Thursday evening we saw “Rachel Getting Married” until we walked out. Several others walked out before us (it’s a terrible movie). Also Monday afternoon was the Country Fair (a charity event). Jan ran the Second Hand Rose (like a garage sale) & I helped a sport director last year. Several other booths and games are some of the events.
The serving staff sang “Let me call you sweetheart” to Gloria & Lloyd when serving their 62nd non-anniversary cake (their anniversary is in June). Another night we had popcorn served with our deserts for the Stokes since they had never had popcorn.
We have received a couple of E-mails from Mary & Vince, a Chicago couple we enjoyed from last year’s cruise. Vince is originally from Barbados.