Today was the last day of our 50th year of marriage and I spoke in the interdenominational service on 4 aspects of love as found in I Corinthians 13:7 (love bears, love believes, love hopes, and love endures) as reflected in our marriage. The remainder of the day was spent in lectures on photographic topics, sea monsters, Andian journeys, hypnosis (not my favorite), a biographical sketch by Dr. Montgomery, a a Chilean flautist, Viviana, who was quite good, and finally a story time story by Dr. Fadiman about a military encounter while trying to work with indigenous people in Mexico.
Now that we are about 1/3 into this new format of cruising, here are my general observations:
Positives:
1. I don't miss the cast shows.
2. There has been great variety and depth in the lecture offerings. Use of major themes is good.
3. The new ports have been great (San Blas Islands, Quepos, Guayaquil).
Negatives:
1. Too many EXC events per day including competing events.
2. On port days, HAL shouldn't schedule key lectures one hour before noon he on board time.
3. No Zodiac opportunity (although it's likely to be very expensive).
A number of our lecturers get off the ship tomorrow or in one of our Peru stops (new lecturers come on board).
Tomorrow we do a private excursion to three major archeological sites near the port of Salaverry, Peru. Stay tuned.
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