En Route To Seychelles Day 2

Today is our second day at sea as we cruise to Victoria, Seychelles. We will arrive in this port of call tomorrow morning.

We awoke early this morning and had breakfast in the Lido Café. There were very few passengers at the Café since many were sleeping later than usual due to having moved the clocks forward one hour last evening. After a nice breakfast, we worked out in the Fitness Center. Anne Marie worked out on the treadmill and Keith worked out on the elliptical machine for an hour.

Later in the morning we attended the second of three lectures given by Dr. Fendon Lindberg. The title of his presentation was “Fats that Kill and Ftas that Heal.” In his first presentation, he had discussed the Mediterranean diet and today he talked about the good fats and the bad fats along with which foods contained each type of fat. In terms of diet, he recommends having three meals each day and two snacks but making sure the snacks are good foods. He recommends a diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, having oily fish (eg., salmon, sardines, tuna, etc.) at least three or four times each week. Previously he recommended having three ounces of dark chocolate each day and he also recommends about three ounces of nuts each day. He walked us through those fats that are good and those that are not as good and those that are bad. He did say that he verified that there were no trans-fats (bad fat) in any of the items that are prepared on this ship so that was good news. He also recommends good exercise and not going to bed within three hours of having had ones evening meal.

After this lecture it was time for team trivia and today our team finished in a tie for first place by correctly answering thirteen of fifteen questions. After team trivia we sent to lunch and had a wonderful Cobb Salad.

In the early afternoon, Anne Marie went to a lecture given by Robert Adams who reviewed the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It is a book about Afghanistan, as it endures monarchy, and civil war and then theocracy. This novel was on the New York Times best-seller list for two years. Anne Marie had read the book as part of our neighborhood book club. The lecturer began the discussion with the history of Afghanistan, and then he gave a lively review of the book and its characters. The session was very well attended and Anne Marie was glad that she attended.

This afternoon we took a nice walk on the Promenade Deck. The weather and the seas continue to be quite nice. We spoke with the captain last evening and he mentioned that he expected that we would have relatively calm seas not only when this segment of the World Cruise ends in Dubai but for the remainder of the segment as he said the other seas we would be cruising in should be relatively calm this time of year.

This evening we went to dinner with a wonderful couple who is also on the Full World Cruise who we first met at the World Cruise Gala in Miami as we were seated at the same table with them. We had an excellent dinner and a delightful conversation with them.


Keith & Anne Marie