June 18 – AT SEA, Cruising the Atlantic Ocean

shot of the sunset before curtain are closed

Weather – 27º

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Steps – 7,073

Humidity – 82%

Nothing all that significant to report from today’s sea day.

We learned that the Atlantic North Equatorial Countercurrent is particularly strong - because of that we will be delayed about 3.5 hrs getting into Dakar, Senegal tomorrow. I had never heard of this current but learned that it is a wind-driven, eastward current in the Atlantic just north of the equator. We are being slowed down because it is stronger than anticipated.

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Andrew sings the oldies

In addition to the current causing delay, we will need to make a 30-min stop in the ocean where will meet with the local navy to disembark our security team
and their equipment. Hopefully, this means we can go back to having the curtains open after dark and the outside lights on.

We attended a pre-dinner jazz show. The ship’s cruise director, Andrew, sang, accompanied by the ship’s 5-piece band. It was good. Same ol’, old music, but good. I absolutely appreciate the

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musicianship but am still looking for variety. We talked to Andrew a few days ago about the lack of variety in the ship’s music. He said we wouldn’t find much more current music in his show…he was right. Don’t you think the musicians might be interested in variety? If I find it same ol’, how do they feel playing it day in, day out???

I’ll tell you want has had variety…the 3 current guest entertainers – one piano guy (played the Olympics theme), a violin woman, and a guitar guy. They have all played pieces from classical to current…it’s not that HARD!!!! For example, last night Susana, the Hungarian violinist played Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, followed that up with a Mozart medley! See…not that hard.

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We both went straight back to the room to do some laundry (and by do some, I mean shove our stuff in a bag and note it on the form) and go to bed early.

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I have to say, I’m never a bad sleeper, but when I’m away from home, I seem to pass out hard! Even on days when I don’t really do anything to make me tired (although today I did manage to drag myself to the gym), I’m out!