Thursday, January 30, 2020

At Sea - Wed 01/29 - Day 26


I woke up at 8 and it was 48 degrees with 75% humidity.  It was another rocking night and it continues todaay.  I went to breakfast at 9 and went back to the cabin at 9:45.  I caught up on the news and read until 11:40 when I went to trivia.  It was a really hard set of questions for me today as I only got 4 correct out of 15 and I only had answers for 8.  I went back to the cabin and tried to file for an extension for my taxes, but had problems with getting an email from them.  I went to play bingo, but it was an error in the program.  I finally got my email to work on the computer but the speed is extremely slow and things keep timing out.  They finally took the internet down about 5 and say they are working on it.  I went to the Crow's Nest at 6:30 and talked with Don, Jim & Cathy, Martha and Sue.  At dinner, we had a special menu "The Heroic Age of Exploration Commemorative Dinner.  The dessert I had was Angels On Gliders.   It was the best chocolate I have tasted in quite some time.  On Christmas day 1912, veteran explorer and photographer Frank Hurley prepared and named a dessert of a chocolate square and one raisin on top for their celebration dinner while holed up in a tent with two companions while on the way back from reaching the Magnetic South Pole. After dinner, I returned to the cabin to get a good night's sleep before we get started on our 4 days of cruising Antarctica.   Not sure what the towel animal is supposed to be.  I went to bed at 9:30.