This was our best day on our trip so far. However, first, Australia has some strange time zones. We just changed our watches by 30 minutes, traveling south and west of Sydney along the coastline below the yellow zone.
So what time is the Academy Awards program on TV? Yes, it is being shown live on this ship. Let's see now, New York start time is 8PM on Sunday. Sydney is 16 hours ahead, so that would be 12 noon on Monday. But wait, the USA just went on daylight savings time last night, so that would be 11AM. Except we just moved half an hour towards, or is it away, from New York. So 10:30AM? Then on April 2,
Australia goes into Daylight Savings Time.
Anyway, I am watching the Oscars as I write this blog, and for lunch plan to order a cheeseburger with beer and a red wine, plus Caesar salad, to continue viewing the program.
Yesterday on the second sea-day we had a decent lunch with side skirt steak, chicken, Caesar salad, tomato soup and rosé.
Then on to a Global Wine Quest featuring three whites and seven reds. Our sommeliers are all from around the world. With 1 being good and 10 bad, here were the rankings. Note the $350 and $315 notations. If we wanted to order these two reds with our meal, we would need to pay this extra amount per bottle.
A few tidbits.
Yeimi, who in a few days will become the chief sommelier, with my #1, a Chateau La Gravette de Certan 2019 Pomeral Bordeaux. Note that it would cost us $350/bottle if we ordered it with a meal.
This was one of those free-wheeling tastings where you go to the bottle and they pour it. Only a tad, for I ended up actually tossing away more than I drunk.
Then went for a short walk. Dinner was in the Colonnade.
I should mention that the drinks started with a gin martini, then on to vodka with red and white wines, ending with a port.
And the night was just beginning, for we went for a drink in the The Club to listen to The Trio.
At 9:30PM on to the Grand Salon, our theater, for guitarist, Bruce Mathiske of Australia. We almost decided to skip him, and almost went back to our cabin to go to sleep. However, glad we went, for
I thought this was the most enjoyable stage show I've seen on a ship, maybe ever. He gave us a musical tour through his country, and also played what you see below, a didgeridoo. Very creative entertainer. He would win a World's Got Talent competition.
Now feeling good, we went back to The Club, and the place had become a disco dance room, first with The Trio. followed by Nikki and The Band. Nikki was incredible.
Made it back to our suite just after midnight. Took 6409 steps today.
When we leave Kangaroo Island today at 6PM, there will be a Caviar Serenade Sail Away. Yes, more caviar. Best of all, five days into the cruise, in sometimes bumpy weather, where it can be dangerous just walking around room, I feel great.
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