9th August

9th August
Sea Day Cloudy Temp 19c Sea calmed down as day progressed.
At about 6am an alarm sounded and a response team was called for over the PA in the cabin. Not long after The Captain came on to tell us that there was a smell of burning on Deck 9 and he was waiting for a report back from the response team. Almost immediately became back to tell us that a fan belt on the ventilation system had jammed and that was the cause of the smell. We did get back to sleep causing us to have a late (10am) breakfast. Today was my eggs and bacon day yummy!
Not much doing for us during the morning except to go to the Outlet Sale where there was nothing for me but Betty bought a top which I actually choose. There was an Australian Pie Buffet up in the Horizon Court for lunch and judging by the length of the queue you would think they had never seen a pie before. We gave them a miss. In the afternoon Betty, Coral & Bev went to a Cruise Critic function and heard Evon one of the lecturers talk about her collection of pearls. Ian & I went to Geoff Gray's lecture " Asia's New Super Stars" which was mostly about China but he did touch on the other stars like Korea & India. He told us of so every interesting facts about China's progress with 60% of the world population and the second largest economy. They have the largest army in the world and are building a sizeable navy.
For entertainment tonight we went to the Vista Lounge to see Jonathan Neal and his nice looking assistant Liane. Jonathan is a magician and his presentation was better than the usual stand up magician. He did a lot of it to music. He was very good.