Sunday, August 17, 2014

Day Twenty-Eight - ms Veendam At Sea Friday 08 August 2014


We are on our way back to Greenland -- two days at sea.   Phil and I were in the Lido by 6:30 am -- we turned our clocks back an hour last night so the whole ship is up early.
  
After breakfast I went to a briefing on upcoming ports --- wrote a blog post -- and continued reading "The Emperor of All Maladies: The Biography of Cancer" by  Siddhartha Mukherjee.  I downloaded this a couple of years ago and started it several times but this time I am going to finish it.  It is lengthy but very interesting and written for the layperson.   I recently heard that Ken Burns is  making a documentary of this  book. 

Then it was time for lunch -- amazing how that happens.

After lunch I decided to go to a movie and on the way to the theatre I discovered a silent auction inside on Deck Six to benefit a charity in one of the Candadian ports coming up.  There were lots of scarves, caps, mittens, and small afghans knitted by people on board the ship -- and other miscellaneous things donated by Holland America.   I bid on several items.

The movie was a British film -- "The Girl in the Café" -- with Bill Nighy.  It was entertaining with sort of a message. 

Before dinner -- I joined Phil for happy hour and Trivia  --

All in all it was a nice day at sea --

Thanks for Reading!

Pat

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