Making the Best of Things

 Somewhere along the Oregon coastline...

After the Bait and Switch of the Eurodam’s new masking policy, we’ve found ways to work around it. A kind crewman gave me a couple of his thinner masks to use. I cut a hole in the DH’s N95 mask so he can breathe. (Thanks again to my friend Marcy who gave me a traveling sewing kit with a tiny pair of scissors back in 2018 before our first World Cruise!) They can make us wear them, but "They" can’t keep us from altering them.

And we can always shed them if we carry a protective glass of iced tea with us everywhere we go.

Or we can spend all our time eating, because everyone knows as long as there is food on a plate in front of you, no self-respecting Covid virus will venture near you. No mask needed here!

Another place we didn’t wear them was at the art class we attended yesterday. As usual, the process is more important than the product. It was a fun experience. Several other “artists” took off their masks, as did our teacher, so we threw our “abundance of caution” out the window and followed suit. Around the ship, I’ve seen several people without them. Last night at the theatre, as soon as everyone was seated, almost all the masks came off.

This is not the finished product. Our teacher advised us to snap photos at various stages so the process is clear in our minds for future reference.

The entertainment was provided by UNITY, a quartet of men with Broadway and West End credits. They had a wonderful blend and offered a lovely program of songs from Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and a host of others.

Buckets of talent in this group!

Another entertainment venue we love is Lincoln Center Stage where a piano quartet, which consists of a piano, violin, viola, and a cello offer beautifully performed classics to moderns.

Live music is one area in which Holland America continues to excel. I'd go so far as to say it's their saving grace at present...