Throughout the day there was significant ship motion which was mainly what I call porpoising or up and down motion in the ship's direction. There's very little sideways motion due to the stabilizers. A little after 3:15pm there was a first stage alarm for smoke in a galley. Subsequent announcements by Captain Arno indicated it was only an overheated electric motor. Weather wise we've had low level clouds but not dense enough to require use of the fog horn. Plus the sun has tried to peek through. At the noon briefing Captain Arno indicated that the Diamond Princess was having to also alter its itinerary due to the Typhoon Krosa. Throughout the day the waters calmed down as the typhoon headed away from us.
Program wise, the Jersey Tenors were the guests at the coffee chat and even did a little impromptu brief a cappella tune. We had a presentation by Ronald Orenstein on Natural Monuments which is a special classification of monuments devoted to not just physical places, but also to animals, festivals, Lance gave a port talk on Kochi which is the port stop planned after Kobe. The only planned afternoon activity was Sommelier wine tasting. A presentation by Terry Greenberg was cancelled for some unknown reason. The Evening Insight was a Travel Photography Session by Nigel Atherton which was quite good. I look forward to more of his presentations. Tomono Kawamura returned with her classical piano set for the evening entertainment.
We continue to have some problems with our new room's air conditioning. We can't get the temperature below 70°. Last night it was 72°f overnight. The technical department claims it's fixed, but it's not. There also have been areas of the Lido that are also very warm.
I'll leave you with a food picture of our room's fruit bowl.
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