April 4
Today is the first of 3 sea days, this one is needed to recover. Throughout the morning we maintained a south-south-easterly course and in the afternoon we altered our Course to a southerly course as we sailed along the coast of Sri Lanka. Nothing is really scheduled for today. We played trivia twice with Richard and Irene, did average. The highlight was when 2 whales floated by on the surface of the ocean. I actually spotted them before the Officer in Charge announced it. Today was Mexican Day for lunch, Betty and I ate too much, but it is good.
April 5 Holy Thursday
Early this morning we cleared the coast of Sri Lanka and set a North Westerly heading through the Lakshadweep Sea. Around noon we will again be sailing along the Indian coast and will follow a North-north-westerly heading the rest of the day and night. The ship has not had ESPN and claims it is because of the satellite location until we get near Egypt. I think that the real reason is because they did not pay the premium for getting the final of the NCAA basketball tournament and for the Masters Golf tournament. This a real bummer as we want to watch Tiger hopefully win.
Today we had two Scholarship at Sea lectures, one by Astronomer David Dodge on Asteroids and the other by Documentary Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks on Creating the Impossible…Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic. We did trivia twice with the same results, our goal is to never win. I don’t think that will be a problem! Again we skipped the evening show and watched the movie “ Iron Lady” with Meryl Streep which we found rather depressing.
April 6 Good Friday
Throughout the night and continuing today we will continue on a north-north-westerly course along the southwest coast of India. Today we had two Scholarship at Sea lectures, follow-ups to the two we had yesterday, titled ‘From Myths to Mega Pixels’ and ‘The Pixar Story’. We went to trivia and of course we continue our losing streak. Tonight’s show time is Game Show Night with Passenger Feud which we will gladly skip.
Late in the night we will alter our course onto a more northern heading as we continue to Mumbai, India.
