At Sea En Route To The Falklands (Sort of)

(11:50pm)

The afternoon was very unproductive. After blogging, I went back to the room and watch “The Incredibles” until I fell asleep for two hours. By the time I woke up it was 1:00 so I headed down for lunch. I bumped into some of my Dad’s friends and they told me that they he and some others were having lunch at the spa. I headed over there to meet them and to have a light lunch.

At 2:00, we all went to a presentation by the resident historian, James Reid, and he was supposed to talk about the war of 1982 in the Falklands. It seemed like he talked about everything but, and I fell asleep for a while. I didn’t fell that badly though since even the keeners found it a snore. My Dad slept for about 45 minutes and didn’t miss much.

When it ended I played some Bingo. I was one away in 4 out of the five games which was pretty good, but pretty disappointing at the same time. In the final game I was one away on the full card, and I had three calls before someone else was one away. I was looking good for a while, but my B12 didn’t come up. I also missed the raffle by one number: I had 535 and the winner was 534. Oh well.

When I got back to the room, I changed and went to the gym. I ran 2.5 miles which I guess is about 5 kilometers. I felt good afterwards and I think that I may actually be losing weight on this cruise. After months of lethargy, I’m glad to be doing some exercise, and I hope that I can keep it up when I get home.

After my workout, I returned to the room. Dad and some of his friends were having wine and cheese. I took a quick shower and then attempted the New York Times Crossword, with little success.

The others left and my Dad took a shower. I got dressed into my formal wear and started watching a Billy Bob Thornton movie about football. It was pretty bad, but tided me over until people came over for drinks before dinner.

Dinner was fun. My Dad and his fellow dental conventioneers all received a $26 bottle of dealcoholised wine and we decided that we would trade them in at dinner for something decent. That was kinda fun, since we were all in our tuxedos and evening gowns and we were trading in our grape juice for wine. I told you these dentists like to party down.

As we sat enjoying our wine and conversation, the captain came over the PA and informed us that due to bad weather we weren’t going to be able to land at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. We were all pretty bummed out, since that was the highlight of the trip for most of us. Instead of a port day tomorrow, we have another day at sea. I’m not sure what our exact schedule is now, but we are spending an extra day in Montevideo including an overnight, which means that we can go out partying on the mainland for an evening. That should be interesting.

After dinner I went to the casino. I had a $5 matchplay coupon. I played single hand blackjack and even though I hit blackjack on my coupon, I ended up losing $16. It’s okay since I had fun, right?

My Dad has his dental course tomorrow morning, and I can sit around doing nothing again. I’m not sure what’s going to happen, since the schedule was changed at the lst minute, but I hope that it will be a fun day.