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4:30 PM found us on the aft deck for afternoon tea - Kay was pretty voracious since

she had skipped lunch (except for eating a couple pieces of fruit in the room) so she

had a couple of tea sandwiches and a cookie. Lois had tea and a little cake slice. The

tea is delicious but we have to start remembering to bring our Equal/Splenda bag.

Our experience at this tea function was sort of a déjà vu all over again: there was a

music group called Odessa entertaining us with guitar, keyboard, accordion, and

maracas - however, it was strange since only Kay & I were there - shades of the D & D

Madrid restaurant after the Gorbachev lecture.

On our return to the cabin, we found that we had been invited to have dinner at the

Captain’s Table tonight. That meant getting as dressed up as we could be - which

wasn’t very smarted up because we had not really brought “dress­up” clothes.

However, we at least “did” our hair and tried to throw something acceptable on our

bodies. We had a cocktail hour and Recap session prior to dinner as we would have

every night. Maybe that glass of champagne at the pre-dinner cocktail party loosened

us up enough, unaccustomed as we are to such? We enjoyed getting to know Juanita,

the clinical psychologist a little better too. She was our cocktail party companion. She

is still working in Summit, NJ, and has a busy private practice as well as acting as a

consultant to various businesses around the area. She seemed to be an outgoing and

interesting traveling companion too. She related a tale of having had herself and her

luggage routed to Palmas, Mallorca, instead of Las Palmas, Gran Canarias. Luckily she

was able to get everything straightened out in Madrid so that she & her suitcases

flew to the right island. After the champagne and wine, we drifted into dinner.

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