4-17 Day 102 At Sea

I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY PORT HOLE!  (Please pronounce in a Sarah Palin voice!)

Actually, as we sailed the Pacific today, we could see the Kuril Islands off the port side of the ship.

  As you can see,

  they are covered

  in snow and ice!

  Brrrrr!

It was so cold on the ship today – think it is from all the uncovered glass that makes looking out fun, but makes it cold on the inside when the temperature is below freezing.

Played bridge and then went to a culinary demo with the pastry chef from the ship.  He demonstrated classic bread pudding.  I went because I love the bread pudding on this ship – and its sauce.  It is so moist and custardy on the inside.  So, now I have the recipe to make it! 

After lunch with Doug, he went to an activity and I finished my Blog entries.  We lost another hour, so while he uploaded my stuff, I went to my last book club meeting on this cruise.  Some people are reading another book, but with just 10 days to go, I want to try to read some of the books I brought with me so I don’t have to drag them back home! 

We skipped dinner with our table and had a very quick bite to eat in the Lido so we could see the 6 p.m. movie – A Single Man.  Doug left after about an hour (smart move), but I stayed to see how it ended.  The movie was well done, but it was very weird and melancholy. 

We were then able to see the 8 p.m. ship’s show with Count Dimas . . . from the mountains of Transylvania.  He played the piano very well and then played his “draculaphone” which was just funny to watch (lots of balls attached to horns all over his body that played when he moved his body.)  Trying to get to bed early because we are in our one and only Russian port tomorrow.  It is our last port of this cruise as well.  More about that tomorrow!