With a lot of days at sea by now we had come to know some of the other passengers a bit better. We had met a few couples who we would occasionally talk to and instead of people asking us why we were on the ship they have started to ask if we were really having fun with the old folks. There are only two passengers who are younger than us on the ship. Tommy who is around 2 and is staying down the hall and is always getting away from his parents even when he has his leash on. The crew seem to have become really close with him and most of them call him Tom Tom now and help to try and corner him when he gets away. There is also a 6 year old boy as well but he is very quiet. On one of our sea days we decided to try out Bingo which people take very seriously here. It was a bit embarrassing as Frankie who runs Bingo made sure everyone knew that it was our first time there and that we weren’t crew we actually were passengers. Although it was fun we didn’t have much luck at Bingo and may try again soon. We have had a few guest lecturers on board one of them being Major General Mark Rosenker who worked for Bush. He had a few interesting lectures on the security of the president and what goes into moving him from place to place.
We have been going through a lot of different weather on board. One day the water was so calm it looked like glass and the next it was so rocky. A lot of people became sea sick so the decks were pretty empty which is probably a good thing because the water was coming onto the open top deck of the ship. The bad weather lasted a few days and even kept us out of Richard’s Bay one of our ports.
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