25th July

25th July Sea Day Beautiful day Temp 28c Sunny with some could smooth sea.
I will try to continue to write my blog using the iPad. I have found I can cut and paste into the blog when on line so I can compose off line to save those valuable online minutes.
Port talk today was for St Lucia. We did not have a trip planned for there so we were particularly interested to hear what she had tosay about the island. We have now booked a tour on the same one as Coral.
At 11am. there was Part 2 of the JFK lecture so Ian & I stayed in the theatre and our good ladies went to get us a coffee to go. They did not stay for the lecture. For the Port talk we have quite a row as all the people on our dinner table now sit together. Each saving seats for the others. The JFK lecture continued from his election to President, with details of his affairs, the Bay of Pigs incident and the Cuban Missile crisis. We heard more about  how ill he was and how it was covered up. He was not the golden haired boy some of us thought him to be. She did go into his
assassination quite a bit and show evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald definitely did the deed and something I did not know was that when he was arrested he shot a policeman. Once more we spent the rest of the afternoon with Betty sorting her photos and me reading although I did go for a walk around deck 7 it was so nice out there that I kept going for 5 times.
As I think I have previously mentioned the singers and dancers all got off in New York and a new group got on, with a new set of shows. Tonight was their first show called "Oh What A Night" There are 4 singers and 6 dancers in this group. We gave the singers 10 out of 10 but the dancers need more work, they were a little untidy. One of the singer we have seen before when we were on the Round the Pacific cruise. Also tonight there was a later show in the Vista Lounge with Shirley Dominguez a Harpist playing with the   Ships band. Before her show there was the opportunity to dance to the music of the band so we went to do so. Afterwards we thought we would stick around to listen to Shirley and were glad we did she was very good. It all made for a late night, Midnight before we got to bed.