After three straight days of excursions in the heat and humidity of Southeast Asia, a Sea Day comes as a welcome opportunity to dial down the activity level and spend the day in air conditioning. Some of our fellow guests from south Florida are saying that this is what it is like there in July and August, and that their days are spent indoors as ours would be during a winter snowstorm. Ooh, perhaps mentioning snowstorm to our Wallingford neighbors is kinda rubbing it in, that we should quit our whining about 90+ degree weather and get on with this post.
Post which will be very short. Just a few notes to ourselves as to what we did as it will interest no one else at this point.
Steve attends and Enrichment Lecture with Sam DeLong: Capture, Create and Connect with Mobile Photography. Not only is Sam a great photographer, but he also knows the iPhone inside and out and really enjoys telling people about its features. I never fail to learn something from Sam.
Speaking of that, at this point I can’t recall the day, but I passed Sam on the stairs and just said “Hi Sam, could I ask you a quick question about how to delete photos off my iPhone without deleting them off my MacBook Pro? My photos are in the Cloud and the phone is giving me a message…..” He stops and says, “Well, let’s sit down and see how you’ve got things set up.” Forty minutes and probably one hundred fifty keystrokes later, he has reworked both my iPhone and Mac to eliminate the problem. A forty-minute total interruption to his day, and he thought nothing of it. This guy was born to teach.
Peter Croyle also has an Enrichment Lecture: The History and Culture of Vietnam: Part 1 (Saigon). He has spent a great deal of time there training tour guides, and he is involved in some nonprofit activity there as well, so he really knows the country well. He covers the history up until 1955, and will cover more recent history on our next Sea Day.
Our notes indicate that Cathy attends Afternoon Tea with Barbara O’Dell. We also have dinner with Tim and Karen Newton in the Terrace cafe. Tim and Karen rarely eat anywhere else as they prefer the informality and speed with which you can get in and out.
So that’s our day. Having grown up in the sixties where the war there impacted most every facet of American life, we are very much anticipating our visit to Vietnam.
