Overnight the seas remained quite calm and the temperatures remained quite warm. After breakfast and devotions, we walked the deck for a couple miles with 5 for the day being our goal. We saw lots of flying fish and my wife even saw a small turtle. It was fun to play our game of standing on the forward starboard railing and watch for a flying fish. Once one is spotted I resume walking to do another lap. 4 laps equals a mile. Rather than attend the morning lecture on asteroids hitting the earth, we adjourned to the Crow's Nest to watch Game 5 of the World Series. It was good to see the Cubs win 3-2.
After a really quick Lido lunch, it was time to go to the 2pm Paleontology lecture which was about small extinct and non-extinct mammals as found at Riversleigh. It was then time to resume walking the deck to get my 5 miles in and look for more flying fish. The flying fish were a bit more elusive in the afternoon. Approaching 5pm, we came closer to the south shore of Timor island and I picked up a 2g cell phone signal. I was able to pay our VISA bill and check Facebook and email before the signal got too faint. After a quick Lido salad for dinner, we went to the 6pm Elliott Finkel concert piano show. Once again he was excellent, and ended his concert with a medley from Rogers and Hammerstein.
My wife wore a really cute Halloween dress for the 8:30pm Halloween party in the Crow's Nest. I wore her black t-shirt that reads 'My Halloween Costume' and a lighted skull necklace. At around 10:30pm, the Crow's Nest was closed 'so that they could clean up' but it was really closed so there could be a crew party.
While the destination is important, don't forget to savor the journey.
Tim Bowman
Sent from the Road Somewhere
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