What a day!

Friday 6 March
It's almost a week since I last wrote, and I will never remember what has taken place...something about my short term memory due to my advanced age, I guess. I still meet people who marvel that I am traveling alone, but what else can I do?!
We have had some harrowing experiences on the ship due to bad weather, including one wave that was 45 feet high, came over the bow, and managed to tip the ship enough so that everything went flying, especially, I am told, in the galley and in the dining room, not to mention all the containers near the elevators that are normally filled with sand. In this case, they were all knocked over, and the sand was everywhere! Most normal programs were cancelled on Wednesday evening, and in effect, it was suggested that people remain in their cabins. except that I still had to go to dinner in the dining room. Fortunately, I don't seem to suffer from seasickness, so I wasn't bothered except for having so much difficulty trying to walk anywhere. The high seas lasted through the night and into Thursday, such that we only got to Adelaide today, instead of yesterday. We will have to make up the day either before Perth, or Broome, I imagine.
Our new dining table companions are really quite O.K. this time: two Ambassador Hosts, one of whom lives in Nashua NH, but comes from Brockton MA (and knew Roseland, etc.) plus one lady who only comes occasionally. Last night we has Beverly, the dancing star on the ship, as a guest, and we all enjoy our mealtime together.
The computer course is now on photography, so I hope to learn how to do a load of things with my photos.
Today could have been a fiasco, but in the end it was quite O.K. Due to the change of schedule, I goofed, and turned my clock back 1/2 hour last night (instead of tonight) and therefore, missed my tour that was scheduled for 07:45! However, I was able to schedule a yoga lesson for 10, and a different tour for noontime. I spent the morning trying to catch hzp on some emails, and had an early lunch. The tour was to Hahndorf, a German enclave in Australia which is really just a tourist haven, full of craft shops. I walked around for over an hour with the wife of one of the speakers (he is an Olympic champion of some sort) looking at all the various junk (excuse me, I mean souvenirs) for sale and returned to the bus exhausted. We returned to the ship just in time for Friday night services, and now I have to change for Cocktails in the Captains's quarters followed by dinner.
One more thing: I had to forego bridge today, and for the next few days, also, (due to computer lab) which means that my new partner (Malcolm) will probably get himself a different partner and I will have to take pot luck the next time I play. Too bad, because Malcolm is a good player, and we managed to do quite well, the few times that we played together.
So that's it for today!