Day 40 – February 24, 2011 – At Sea on the way to Brisbane, Australia

It was an early morning and Jan got up and did her two miles around the track on Deck 11.  She got a little wet at the end of the walk but it was only a light sprinkle of rain.  We have a new Captain and Food & Beverage Manager now.  These are the officers for this segment:

Master – Glanmario Sanguineti – he says call him Mario

Staff Captain – Letic Guerino

Safety Officer – Serena Melani – a beautiful redhead lady

Chief Engineer – Reine Jakobsson

General Manager – Michael Coghian

Food & Beverage Manager – Davor Josipovic – Florian left in Brisbane

Cruise Director – Jamie Logan

Executive Chef – Fabien Alujas

We started the next segment bridge lessons on doubles – something that is a mystery to both of us.  Lunch was a fish barbeque on the pool deck. Then Jan play duplicate bridge – where she did not do well but had a very nice lady for a partner that said we will try again.

Tonight is Captain’s Welcome Reception.  We had cocktails at the Observation Lounge and enjoyed the piano music.   We went down to Compass Rose later and joined a delightful couple who now live in Florida but are from London.  We really enjoyed dinner with them.

Entertainment was a violinist, Hana Starostam, but we decided to ship the show.