With the change in itinerary and getting almost a week behind on meeting my goal of sending a post for each day, I have somehow lost a Sea Day. For all I can remember, the stuff I posted yesterday at Feb. 16th happened today, Feb. 17th. However, I did find one photo taken on the 17th, and it was an interesting sunrise. Do you see how hazy it seems? That’s symbolic of my memory for this twenty-four hour period.
So what did we do today? Eat. Sleep. Chat. That must have been it. I am going to move ahead to February 18th.
Cathy, though, has something to add: Peter Croyle, the “Enrichment Lecturer” has been on Insignia since Miami. He gives lectures about upcoming ports, about the history of the region, has “Wildlife Viewing” every day somewhere outside on the ship deck, and accompanies groups on excursions. He is a great guy. I say he is sort of like a long-lost dorky cousin who you last saw when you were kids and always knew you would like to see again. He also shows movies sometimes, in a segment he calls “Hollywood and History.” I saw “Papillon” with Steve MacQueen and Dustin Hoffman as we approached Devil’s Island. On one of Steve’s recent lost sea days, probably this one, I saw “Long Road to Freedom, Nelson Mandela.” Or, as they say in SA “Nilson Mondayla.” They call him “The Father of Our Nation” and I can understand why. He was a true leader and god knows what SA would be like now if it weren’t for him. Without his leadership I believe the nation would have descended into chaos and civil war. We were in SA for six days and learned a lot from our various guides, many of whom were white and were very honest in saying that they had been very afraid that they would be murdered in their beds. Steve says that Mandela was the Abraham Lincoln of SA in that he saved the country and brought people together.
