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There were 10 of us at the table and so it really broke into 5 and 5 for conversation.

We never spoke a word to the Captain since he was not at our end of the table.

However, we had enjoyable dinner companions just the same: Dr. V., the ship’s

physician, and Tom & Ron, two fellows from Los Angeles. Tom is managing director of

a travel company and Ron is an interior designer. We talked with Tom about his

company’s trips to Botswana and he said he could put us on either a scheduled trip

or he could custom design a trip for us. We will keep in contact with him for sure. Ron

is an engaging fellow who kept us interested with his talk of travels, his Egyptian

show dog, Petra, even now in a show at Tucson, and his wildlife--filled neighborhood

only 5 miles from downtown L.A. The meal was delicious but way too much food;,

however, the evening sped by and we both admitted we had enjoyed everything. .

Dinner started at 7:45 PM and we did not leave the Captain’s Table until 10:30 PM so

we felt pretty continental but too tired to do the diary or any pictures. So we just

read a few minutes and fell asleep. What a wonderful first full day on the Atlantic in

the Orion!

Cape Verde Lecture

We started our morning out again with stretching under the sleepy Gabor’s direction.

Luckily he is not a brutal task-master so the exercises are merely stimulating not

exhausting. However, you can certainly feel a good burn with the stretches he

chooses. Another good thing is that today’s routine is not the same as yesterday’s - so

there will be variety in this regime. We have also started “doing the stairs” before

each meal so maybe that will help us with our trying to avoid adding poundage.

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