Grand Africa Cruise Trip Day 15/96 - Sea Day means more jewelry, Baggo, trivia, and liars
We are at the beginning of another four consecutive sea days. That means sea day activities like art, sports challenges, trivia, and Seabourn Conversations (lectures).
Today started with Baggo (cornhole). There were two boards with increasing points the farther you threw. We had a wrinkle today - a very narrow trash can placed in different locations each round. Getting a bag in there was worth big points. We had about a dozen guests compete.
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| Arlona gave it a go today and finished near the top |
I can't recall who came out on top in the end, but he was awarded a nice, new white Seabourn cap.
Arlona dashed off to art class where they made beaded hoop earrings. She was able to make two pairs today.
I attended a lecture that was billed as being about the East African runners who dominate distance running. Instead, the talk revolved more around the theories about high performance with no real content. It was a little disappointing.
Trivia was next and it was another brutal day. Still, we managed to hold on to third place overall in the progressive contest. The ones we missed:
- In what year did the first iPod hit the market?
- We guessed 2002 - it was 2001
- In which category did Winston Churchill win a Nobel Prize?
- We guessed Peace - it was Literature
- Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of what brand of liquor?
- We guessed martinis, so we went with Gordon's Gin - it was Jack Daniel's Whiskey
We also missed the 50-point bonus - who is the most-followed male on Instagram? We had no idea so we guessed actor Timothée Chalamet. It was soccer star Cristiano Rinaldo.
Captain Hamish, in his Sea Day noon report, mentioned that today, we would pass the magnetic equator. We have crossed the equator on ships at least half-a-dozen times and this is the first mention of the magnetic equator we can recall.
The magnetic equator is the halfway point between the magnetic North and South poles. Since the magnetic north and south poles are tilted slightly from the physical poles, this magnetic equator doesn't align with the physical equator.
We are currently about 12° north of the equator or a little over 800 miles north. We won't cross the physical equator for quite some time as we have more stops in the Northern Hemisphere before crossing south around December 18.
Arlona's afternoon art project was another necklace, this time with wooden beads.
Before dinner tonight, Seabourn offered pre-dinner entertainment in the form of Liar's Club. For the uninitiated, Liar's Club is a panel of four experts who delivered their definitions of several unusual words. The thing is that for any given word, three of them lied and only one gave the actual definition. It was up to the audience to determine who told the truth and who offered plausible and typically ridiculous lies. Here are the four words and their actual definition.
- Hawsehole
- a small hole in a ship's bow that allows anchor cables to pass through
- Babaloobies
- water-worn limestone pebbles or rocks that were used to decorate houses and walls
- Quakebuttock
- a coward
- Spitchcock
- an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried
There were lots of laughs throughout and the panelists seemed to have a good time trying to fool everyone.
We were invited to a hosted dinner with Comedian Steve Stevens, last night's entertainer and one of the Liar's Club panelists. We were also joined by vocalist, Amber, another Liars' Club panelist. We had another nice dinner in The Restaraunt with them and other guests.
After dinner, we returned to the suite. Since we're heading west, it's time to start losing hours. We move ahead one hour tonight, shifting to UTC+0 or five hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast. Tomorrow is another sea day.
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