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At lunch today on the aft deck, we experienced something quite unsettling as the

crew apparently was trying to see how the stabilizers will work in seas where the

waves are hitting us abeam. The ship did zig zags in the water and seemed to heel

over rather alarmingly. The captain was seated at the table across from Kay and I and

even he looked up in surprise but he quickly settled back down to his lunch rather

than racing off to the Bridge. We did not enjoy the feel of that maneuver at all!

At sketch class today we showed the bird drawings we had worked on (Kay & I in the

Library using bird books as models) and some of the students are quite good and

progressing by astonishing leaps. Kay is certainly improving satisfyingly too and I have

to admit that I am also getting better, but far from good. However, it was fun to draw

the birds and have them actually look like the models. In class, we drew multiple

studies of shells and a little Mole Crab. The time went by very quickly and we enjoyed

it.

Now we are reading, working on the computer, and listening to Glenn Gould play the

Brahms sonatas for us. I plan to work the crossword puzzle when I finish here.

Our dinner tonight had an “international” flair since all the courses offered styles

from different places. We had Swedish seafood gratin for an entrée, mulligatawny

soup, and Caribbean fruit cocktail for an appetizer. The dessert was a chocolate cake

from Austria. There were other choices for each course as well so folks did not have

to eat what I ate. Kay had borscht for her soup instead of mulligatawny.

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