Monday August 16th.

We awoke this morning and looking out saw a blanket of thick fog, with the drone of the fog horn alerting any shipping of our position. As I stood at the rail at the aft end, I couldn't help thinking, that "this is the stuff of "Agatha Christie Novels" …

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I feel a lazy day coming on and I'm quite happy chatting or listening or reading. I love the sanctuary of our cabin and do my best thinking there alone or at the rail. I'm preparing mentally for leaving the ship, new friends and come Saturday I'll be anxious to get home.

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Our cabin boys are busy cleaning, I'm sitting here on a couch facing the escalator composing the blog, when a gentleman I've not seen before stops and says "hi, where are you from?" I tell him Calgary, he says "I'm from South Carolina" and the next thing we're talking hockey and now I'm late for a meeting with our cruise group. That's life on sea days, if I don't make the meeting, no big deal, there's always another one.

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The Grand Show Buffet was held in the Rotterdam dining room at 1130h. featuring ice, vegetable cheese and fruit carvings. There's an awful lot of work goes into this, by a group of very talented chefs and cooks. I took a couple of photos from the upper dining room, it was crowded down there so we went up to the Lido for lunch leaving others to devour the delectable delights of the buffet.

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We sailed out of the Danish Straights I believe, off the coast of Greenland and into Canadian territorial waters , the fog lifted and It's blue sky and sunshine now but a chill wind whipping across the decks. The temperature is 14c but feels a lot colder. I let the wind blow the cobwebs away, went in to read and fell asleep book in hand. After an hour I woke up, had a shower and read some more, I'm half way through my fifth book and feel fairly relaxed, for me that is.

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Where has this day gone? Seems like we just had breakfast and now it's time for dinner…... After dinner our travel agency hosted a cocktail hour in the Crows Nest, the hotel manager and the cruise director were there with the usual blah blah blah, there were 113 in our group, it was quite noisy (free booze) so I said my goodnights and came to the cabin, Dorothy went to the show, but showed up about 20 minutes later, she was not impressed with the singer.

Tomorrow St. Anthony's NFLD, I wonder if they named it after me :)!