It's a bird, it's a plane, it's........

........LAND!!!!

We actually did see land today!  As it turns out some islands so small that Mal could comfortably live there are located smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.  They’re aproximately halfway between “Nowhereville” and “We’re Lost”.  We, of course, didn’t stop in that port because we would single handedly double the their population…and they probably don’t get facebook, a common lifeline for students onboard.

For anyone with WAY too much time on their hands, you can GoogleMap our coordinates and see where we are:
Latitude: 38 degrees 17.0N
Longitude: 026 degrees 31.5W
I have no idea what those numbers mean but good luck with that.

Yesterday was quite an interesting experience.  We happened to be looking out the port side of the boat (to be honest I don’t really know what that means…I’m just trying to fit in) and there were some Dolphins swimming and jumping toward the boat.  Mal said they wanted to play…I’m wonder why the heck a Dolphin would want to play with 25,000 TON ship with propellers that could swiftly dice them into fresh sushi rolls.  But who doesn’t like playing with life threatening objects (skydiving, bungee jumping, sharp metal blades strapped to your feet, etc.)?

After that we went to a little show that was put on in the union.  It was a clown performance titled “The Crotch of Gibralter”.  The performer, ‘Grandma the Clown’, is a confused man who dresses up as a ‘grandma’ (hence the confused part) and puts on a little show.  He (or she…now I’m confused) is a world performer from the Ringling Brothers and the ‘Big Apple Circus’ and others around the US and Europe.  (Google “Grandma the Clown” and let me know what you get—I can’t waste my Internet minutes).  Anyway…I was blessed to be selected to join him (let’s just go with ‘it’) on stage for a lipsync performance of “Unforgettable” by Frank Sinatra.  We danced, gazed into each other’s eyes, and got a little frisky.  Good news: I am now known as “the Grandma Lover” around the ship…a wonderful label I suppose.

But we have a student wide map test we must study for.  Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers out there.  Just remember…you wouldn’t be Fathers if it weren’t for us!

So long for now!

John and Mally

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jmbooren@semesteratsea.net
mnmang@semesteratsea.net