SUNDAY JULY 18th. 5pm Atlantic DT

Some where off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Hi again each and all, the Maasdam has traveled a distance of 375 miles since leaving Boston, that was the news from the bridge at 1pm.

As you will know the satellite gods were with me this morning and I managed to send yesterdays blog off to the four corners of the world. We've had a fairly busy sea day, after our walk we went to the Rembrandt theater to listen to the port excursions manager highlighting the places of interest in our first three ports of call. Then we attended a cocktail party, hosted by our travel agency. ...We met up with three other couples who we've travelled with before and caught up with all the news since our last e mails which were last week :)

After lunch we listened to the guest lecturer, a scholar who has spent much of his life traveling and learning about the various Inuit peoples of our planet. We shall be visiting with the Inuit in Greenland, Iceland and Norway I believe. It was very interesting and strange hearing some of the language which to my ear sounded like clicks and throat noises.

As if that wasn't enough, I then took in a computer class, and found that I knew a little more than I thought I did, BUT still with much to learn. Chris the teach, talked about Windows 7 and as my lappy is of that ilk I was keen to learn. After the class I found that it was the FULL windows 7 and I only have the

starter version. I definitely want to upgrade though after seeing what can be done with it.

We are off to the Pinnacle now for our anniversary dinner and Toe may even take in the show.

Gosh darn, I forgot to take the camera up for pics of us in our glad rags, we do look quite spiffy even if I say so myself, Oh well we'll be doing it again so I'll try to remember when we do. Dinner was excellent as is usual in the Pinnacle, for starters we had the crab cakes ,mmmm. Dorothy had le French onion soup, lobster bisque for me followed by lobster tail and Mrs. Toe had a filet of beef with jumbo shrimp, now there's an oxymoron! For dessert we were presented with a chocolate mousse anniversary cake, we were not expecting it and I'd primed my taste buds for their crème brulee :( It will taste so much better next time as we didn't have the heart to spoil the obvious enjoyment they ha__ surprising us.

Dorothy went to the show, I went to the cabin to do (paper work)…and read for a bit before turning in as we lose another hour tonight.

There's been a definite drop in temperature as we head north east and it will continue to decline as we get further north. We're prepared though and have sweaters, gloves and head wear plus plastic rain coats for Europe.

I had a strange dream last night and consequently had a fitful We are approaching Ste Pierre and it's quite misty, so no pics his morning, I'm told the fog will burn off by lunch time.