Day 46 - 27 Aug - At Sea to Yokohama, Japan

Today was our final sea day of this leg of the cruise. First on the agenda was the group EXE coffee chat in the Showroom At Sea. Frankly it wasn't well attended and the questions weren't flowing from the audience that was there. Terry Greenberg followed with his excellent talk on the two major religions in Japan: Shintoism and Buddhism with a smattering of time spent on the "modern" religions which are principally quite cult like. Lance gave his port talk on Yokohama.

After lunch Nigel Atherton presented a slide show of some of the earliest photographs taken in Japan or of Japanese people. At 2pm I felt there was a major snafu in the programming: Two EXE presenters gave presentations. Terry took questions in the Wajang Theatre and Ron Orenstein gave a presentation on Whaling History in Japan, I elected to attend the whaling lecture while my wife sat in on Terry's Q&A session. Then at 3pm Nigel was back with a super black * white slide show of crew members throughout the ship. At 4pm I led the final interdenominational Bible study of this segment,

We attended the Guest Chef's dinner and sat once again with Don & Barbara. This meal was much better than the previous one and featured a Kobe beef steak that was probably the best cut of meat I've ever eaten. We were then able to catch the final show by Tom Suha, the very good rock and pop and classical violinist. My tummy wasn't doing well for some reason so we retired to our stateroom. It was sure good to not have to pack!

Throughout the day we sailed at over 17 knots and per the Captain, we had to deviate from a straight course in order to not enter a restricted area used by the Japanese Air Force for practice maneuvers.

Tomorrow is the turnaround day in Yokohama and we'll do something near the ship as the weather wasn't projected to be all that nice. Stay tuned.