I returned my library (pictured left) book and took out another one, ‘Miracles of Life‘, the autobiography of J.G.Ballard, the guy who wrote ‘Empire of the Sun’ among many other novels. The Tasman sea is renowned for rough weather and by 09.00pm it was living up to its’ reputation, we were up on the top deck having a coffee, watching the sun loungers being blown into the swimming pool. The ship was rolling and the wind was howling so we had an early night and retired to the cabin.
The next morning the seas were still rough but, after breakfast, I went up to the track for some exercise.
It was a strange experience, walking the pitching deck, sixty feet above a rolling ocean, fighting what felt like a 50 mph wind, I gave up after 5 laps. Later since we were near the gym (pictured left), we stopped in to weigh ourselves, I’ve gained about 5 pounds as far as I can guess so I’ll have to increase the morning exercise or cut out the doughnuts and danish for breakfast. Passenger talent show sign-up was at noon today so we’re looking forward to the actual show in a few days, I didn’t sign up.
I managed to squeeze in a trip to the casino (pictured left), between lunch and an afternoon presentation, by renowned director Arthur Hiller, on the behind the scenes procedures and memorable moments of the Academy Awards. This is in preparation for the Oscar ceremonies, which will be telecast live to the ship this weekend. I had been doing well at 3 card poker, 3 times played, 3 times winning, until today when the cards were unkind and I lost all my money, fortunately Izzy was around to re-finance me and I moved to the slots, recouping some of my losses. The weather didn’t improve as the day went on, but it didn’t stop me having a big lunch so at dinner I didn’t have a main course and ‘made do’ with 3 appetizers. After dinner we went to the ‘magic and merriment’ of Leo Ward, magician extraordinaire, his show was very good. Around 09.30pm we retired for the evening and watched Ironman in our cabin, three thumbs up for the movie.
