February 18 -- A Slow Day

It was a fairly slow day. We started off the day with Patrise having a 2-hour series of calls and emails, for a complicated client emergency that she had to attend to right away. After that, we had breakfast in the room. After breakfast and lying around for awhile, Patrise left the ship to go shopping in Singapore. It was modest shopping -- looking for Splenda, q-tips, cotton balls, and lactose free milk. After some hassles and a lot of exploration, she was able to find all of these items in a large, multistory shopping mall called Raffles Center. The Lactaid milk was the most difficult to find, but she found it. While she was off the ship shopping, I sat on the balcony first taking photos of the ships in the harbor, then reading a book, "This Other Eden", by Paul Harding. It appeared to me that there were as many ships as there are skyscrapers in Singapore -- that's a lot of buildings and a lot of ships.

Patrise made it back to the ship about 3:15. The ship pulled out of port at 5pm. We went to dinner at Chops Grille at 6:30 and had a wonderful meal -- shared a wedge salad, had a rack of lamb each, and shared a small baked potato and creamed spinach. Then we ate half of a key lime pie and half of an apple pie, before going to an evening show, The Silk Road. The show was a mix of instrumental and vocal music, dancing, and acrobatics. It was excellent. I only wish I could have recorded some of it to share here, but recording was not allowed, as expected.

Tomorrow, we will be cruising all day, making our way to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.