There's nothing quite like having one's TV set come on at 6am to wake one up. Fortunately it did or I would have missed the scenic cruising through the Kanmon Straits. So on the day commemorating my 74th year of being on this planet, I quickly dressed and headed up to Deck 14 and joined a small group to watch our passage through this narrow and strategic passage. It's the 3rd time in the past 4 weeks we traversed it. For much of the time I spent chatting with Alex and Barb.
Ron Orenstein was the guest in the morning coffee chat and Bruce Petty presented an interesting talk on the Missing Persons from WWII. This was followed by Lance's port talk on Nagasaki.
For my birthday, Angela invited two other couples to join us for a nice lunch in the Pinnacle Grill. After 500 plus days of cruising we had never eaten there for lunch. We ate a leisurely lunch with lots of conversation and memories of cruising together and more. It went so well we missed the presentation on Pluto as well as the showing of black and white photographs of the aftermath of the Atomic blast at Hiroshima.
We had a short but good interdenominational Bible study in the Hudson Room but were rudely interrupted by one member of the 'Friends of Bill W' group. Later I was able to find a probable change in venue. We'll see if that comes to pass on our next sea day.
Since lunch was so filling, dinner in the Lido was light and we attended the 7:30pm entertainment which was Pingxin Xu, a masterful player of the Hammered Dulcimer. We went to a short repeat of Terry Greenberg's Behind the Mask: Hidden Culture of Japan. We finished up the evening watching a documentary film, Last Flight Home, about searching for MIA soldiers of which there are 88,000 still missing. The film focused on airmen and was very good.
Tomorrow we have a long port day in Nagasaki which will be our third visit in three years. Stay tuned.
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