Day 15 - 16 – January 19 - 20, 2015

I was not going to post until we got to French Polynesia, but we were invited to the captain’s dinner last night and thought I would post a couple of pictures that Steve took.

On the World Cruise, on each formal night, the captain invites about 60 of those doing the whole world cruise to have dinner with him in the Pinnacle restaurant (specialty restaurant). Our turn was last night. We met him and his wife Karen at the cocktail party preceding dinner and found out that they live about a mile from us in Merritt Island and that they have a boat for sail. It is bigger than we were looking for (32 feet), but the price is real good and we know that he took good care of it. If it is still for sale when we get back we will take a look at it. They said they would love to take us out in it.

The restaurant holds about 65 people at many small tables, but for some reason we were seated at the captains table and I was assigned to sit next to him. There were two couples that we met before the cruise from Florida, and low and behold, the husband (Jerry) of one of them was across the table from me. Steve was at the other end next to Karen with Jerry’s wife Kathy across from him. The other picture is of a bird that was on the deck this morning when we went for a walk. I think he felt it was easier to bum a ride than fly home.