Day 4 The first formal night

Had our first sleep in today, got up at 8.30am instead of 6am. Did a Zumba class and had a crack at trivia again. Only managed 10/20 this time round. Rachel you will be proud of me, I guessed what "Na" was correctly.

I went down to the computer room to post some blogs today and I must have been dressed like a staff member because I had about 10 passengers lining up for me to set up the wifi and Internet access on their iPads. I was happy to help them out. I finally told the group after I helped about 5 people that I was a fellow passenger. When they found out, one lady shoved $10 in my hand. Woohoo cocktail money!

I put on my tightest dress for our first formal night because I doubt that I will fit into it for any future formal events. 

We have two lovely Chinese ladies who share our dinner table every evening. Helda is the most talkative of the two. She told us some stories of her travels as a young woman. She told me that when she was roughly my age she went to Italy. Being a confident young woman, she decided to make her own way back to her hotel late in the evening. She got lost and couldn't ask for directions so she stumbled into an old drunk Italian fellow. She tried to convey what she was trying to find by making a sleeping motion with her hands. Poor Helda, the man thought that she wanted to sleep with him.

Helda thought she would be clever on her next trip which was in Japan. She asked the coach driver to write her hotel name down in Japanese so that if she got lost on her way back to her hotel she could show someone on the street so she could get help. As you would expect, our dear Helda got lost. She  started showing people her little travel brochure that had the hotel detail written in Japanese, however every time she presented the brochure the people would look at her and shake their heads at her. She was so upset that nobody would help her. Anyway, she managed to find her way. Helda later discovered that the details written on the brochure were recorded next to the details for a brothel.

I am not sure if Helda likes to make up stories, but they were funny none the less.

Nana and I watched the Oz movie under the stars tonight. We lounged on padded deck chairs and used the warm blankets provided to snuggle up. Nana was snoozing through some of it, but I bet she will deny it if asked.

The atrium was jam packed after dinner today, I wasn't surprised when I found out they were giving out free champagne and mimosas.