We had a little oops last night when Barry posted our Seychelles report. He had to cut and paste a draft because he couldn't delete a movie he had included in error, and then the old domino effect came into play, because he didn't copy all of my text. So let me round out our adventure by briefly saying we went to the local's fruit and vegetable market to buy spices and soap because everywhere else was so expensive. By now the heavens had opened and we were in full torrential downpour. The traffic was pretty thick in Victoria, but we made it back early to the ship and rushed in to shower and change for my birthday dinner.
Art was our table guest and Jonathan missed it, because he had to sail (gosh work gets in the way), but he came for the cake even before he had eaten dinner. I was feted by the wait staff with their traditional Indonesian birthday song, and then we had a cake that was the strangest one I had ever had, consisting of layers of pastry and icing. Needless to say most of us didn't eat it. Then we made our way to the show where we had an uproarious time with another U.K. comedian. He had a very unique show that had us literally crying with laughter and it was good to see Jonathan in particular howling louder than all of us.
I went to bed counting all my blessings.
Although it is Good Friday, there were no special services on board. We expect the usual outstanding Easter Brunch on Sunday, that we had last year. The Passover seder was held a few days ago as well and many people said it was very nice. I resumed yoga, the acupuncturist having wrought miracles with my back in 3 sessions. We had 2 new and very excellent speakers, one a Canadian biologist who surprised us all by telling us that Madagascar is the most bio-diverse place on the planet and the only place where the mammal lemurs live. There are 150,000 uniqued animal species. The second speaker was equally great, and has worked for NASA for 40 years and gave us his first of 5 lectures, covering the basics on what and why NASA does.
We continued my birthday celebration with a dinner in The Pinnacle with Jonathan and Karen. Karen and I nearly died when we saw the size of the rib eye steaks they served us, and we were in her words, "in over our heads" on the amount of food served, but it was delicious and we had a wonderful evening of great story telling by everyone.
Tomorrow Nosy Be, Madegascar. By the way, Since The Seychelles, and from now on for several weeks, we are in brand new territory for us, and we are pretty excited about seeing Africa and its surrounds.
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