20th July

Sea Day Some Sun Shine Temp 22c Smooth Sea. Formal Night.

Early breakfast today so that we could get to the Church Service. Afterwards we met Pam & Peter in the Atrium because Pam promised to give Betty, Ian and me some pointers on how to play Candy Crush. She uses Facebook in conjunction with it to get extra help. The ships internet connection today was so slow she could not demonstrate so we will have to try it later. Ian & I went to the last lecture to be given by Graham Burns as he will be getting off in New York. His talk today was titled “The Lighter & Darker side of protection” he told us of some amusing incidents like when they were protecting the King of who insisted on driving one of his own cars, a Porshe and they had to follow in a Vauxhall which just could not keep up. Next day a BMW was delivered to them to be used whenever they were protecting the King.

Both Betty & I did some walking around deck 7 this afternoon now that the weather has improved. For the last few days it has been so windy that it would be hard to walk outside.

Tonight we had a decision to make. At 6pm & 8pm Chris Watkins had a show in the Vista Lounge and at 8pm & 9.45pm the Production Company had a show in the Princess Theatre called the “British Invasion” Our dinner time is 5.45pm. if we wanted to see both shows and we did, we could either miss dinner in the dining room and go to the 6pm and 8pm shows or go to dinner and see the 8pm and 9.45pm shows. Tomorrow we have to be in the Vista Lounge at 7.30am for US Immigration and 7.30am in the Princess Theatre for our tour of Boston. I think Immigration will win out. Tonight we finally decided to have dinner in the Horizon Court after going to the 6pm Chris Watkins show. Tonight is a formal night so I avoided having to dress up. Chris put on another superb show and the good news is he is moving to Australia, if you get a chance to see him do so. The British Invasion show was not up to our liking as the music turned out to be 1980s onwards. Coral tells me that they did a good job with the music of Queen. I only recognised the Beatles but then again I do have an OBE. This was their last show as they are getting off in New York and a new group are getting on with all new shows.