We continue on our journey with another sea day as we head for Sydney, Australia. The sun is shining and that means more outside activities in addition to the regular sea day offerings.
Ronnie attended a Christian men’s breakfast early this morning, then headed to his ukulele group practice where he taught the others to play Happy Birthday and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. This means that most of the others are beginners as well, and that’s a good thing – none so far advanced that she/he can’t learn something.
From there he hurried back to the room in order to meet with the guys in his weekly BSF zoom meeting. Since his meeting is usually at 7 pm, that translates to 10 am (currently) our time, so he should be able to make the remaining meetings in this year’s study. Mine, unfortunately, normally meets at 11 am, which means I’d be meeting during the middle of night, so I’ve had to drop out for these last few weeks. It’s been a really good study of Israel’s exile and return this year. There is so much we can learn by studying the Old Testament – it really helps to understand that “scarlet thread” that runs through the entire Bible, doesn’t it?
After lunch, we joined others on the pool deck to see who won the ship building contest. Contestants had to build ships from materials they could scavenge around the ship or while in port. They had to be seaworthy (meaning they would float in the swimming pool) and received the most votes. Congratulations to our friends Jim and Diana and Kevin and Wendy for their 1st place win!
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| Kevin and Jim put their craft to the test |
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| some of the other contenders |
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| ahoy, mateys! |
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| nice job, Bob, Curt & Eilene! |
This afternoon we will hear the guest lecturer James Grant-Peterkin as he finishes up his talks on Australia. As always, there are various activities going on throughout the afternoon, evening and even into the wee hours, but we plan on pizza in the Wave and an early turn in. Arrival in Sydney is 5:30 am. We have tickets to visit the Taronga zoo, which should be interesting. Hopefully we can make it – we both woke with sore throats this morning. Ugh!
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| James Grant-Peterkin, an excellent speaker and story teller |
Barb: Some of those boats are quite elaborate. Looks like a fun contest. I'm sorry you have to miss some if your BSF. Bible study with others is so much more enlightening. Enjoy the Zoo...and hopefully the animals will be out and about for your camera!!
ReplyDeleteThe winners (styrofoam) had amazing detail! I should have posted a close up of it. They even had a little bitty Jesus (from Easter) in their hot tub. We're just coming into Sydney - got some incredible pictures of the opera house. Weather is cooler than it has been, so should be a fun day. Now if I could just beat this cough!
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