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After lunch (we’re getting more abstemious in our lunch diets for sure), we went to

sketch class with MJ. She helped everyone “complete” their fish prints if there were

blank or under­inked spots. She also taught us how to print our “chop,” to add a spot

of red to the black & white fish print. Patricia added, “Orion 2003” (in calligraphy) to

the prints of those who desired her to do so. Those touches certainly added a

professional look to everyone’s work.

At 4 we went to the Cosmos Lecture Hall for a fascinating slide show that John

produced to cover the trip he took just before this one in which he led a group in a

circumnavigation of the African Continent starting and ending in Spain. The whole

trip took 2 ½ months. He started the show with the West Coast of Africa, starting in

Spain, then Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Ghana, Benin, and Namibia. His pictures

were quite good and gave us a good flavor of what such a trip would be like.

We enjoyed a little afternoon tea on the aft deck and came back to the cabin for

showers and getting ready to go to dinner. It was a good thing we enjoyed the

out-of-doors since now we are in the middle of a thunder, lightning, and rainstorm.

The sea is not very much rockier than it has been all day, but who knows what the

storm will bring if it continues much longer. Actually, the storm passed as quickly as it

had arisen and the seas never responded to the cloud commands of Zeus’

thunderbolts, numerous though they were. Instead, the waves stayed small and

controlled, not wild and high - for which, we were profoundly grateful.

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