10th August

10th August
Sea Day Partly Cloudy Temp 20c Slight sea. We even saw some blue sky briefly.
The church service this morning was at 8.30am and we did not wake up until 7.45am so we went to the service  and then to breakfast. As usual we met Coral for lunch but today it was a little earlier because we had decided to give the ballroom dancing another try particularly as they were doing the Chicago Swing which we like. While I did not mind it too much Betty says she is not going anymore because John insists on making every dance progressive, even when they are not intended to be progressive. He is a nice guy but he has ruined it for us.
In the afternoon I went to another lecture by Geoff Gray this time about Japan where we have previously done a land tour whenZara & Rod lived there so I found it most interesting. Did you know that 35 million live in Tokyo and that Japan's population is shrinking. Another piece of useless information is that the Australian Government bought a block of land with a house on it so that they could build an embassy. They sold part of the garden for $53 million which paid for most of the new building. The people who bought it were going to erect a multi-story building on there but were met with objections from Club which also bordered the land.To Geoff's knowledge they have still not built anything.
Tonight in the Princess Theatre we went to the production show" Rock This Town" and the songs came one after another. I would like a CD of the music but that's not possible. Afterwards our dining group went for hot chocolates in the Atrium and listened to the Tritones Duo who are quite good.