After three days of very calm seas (being in port or along the coast), we embark on a full 8 sea days crossing the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, and begin with a rather tumultuous sea, but it calmed down after the first day.

Sunday was church with a backdrop of St. George’s Cathedral, Perth, Australia.  Heather mentioned that we will be in port on Easter Sunday (in Namibia) and she’s leaning to us celebrating on Saturday.  She said we’re a day ahead of those of you in the Americas and Europe, which I would think would be a reason to celebrate on Monday (which would be Sunday at home), but whatever…

One night was Indonesian night in the World Café with various Indonesian food and waiters in costume.  One of the chefs turned out also to be an artist and made wonderful pictures to decorate the café using the styrofoam tops from the coolers in which the ship purchased fish.  They were amazing.  It was a lovely night out on the deck so the evening was a success.

The last day at a 5:30 Atrium concert we were entertained by an amazing young singer from New Zealand named Will Martin.  He is also proud that he is one of those who sings the national anthem at the All Blacks rugby games.  There seems to be a YouTube video of  him singing the New Zealand, Australian, and U.S national anthems.

We continued to gain hours of sleep as we head west. Those are welcome and, oddly enough, I enjoyed the sea days and was not quite ready to go into port again.