You can call me Pollyanna if you want.  But.  There are a lot of comings and goings on a boat which one comes to appreciate.

Yet.

Today… I was pretty lazy. It isn’t often that I am “not in motion”.  We got up early and worked out.  But from that point on, it was a pretty low key kind of day.

It wasn’t to the point of slothful.   But pretty dang close.  (Ich fühlte mich faul.)

Most of the time, I am pretty energetic…. truth be told.  I’ve been this way all my life.  But not on this day.  I think the sea is lulling me into inertia.

As a result,  I had the best nap I’ve ever had today.   That was a really good thing.  It was full of wonder.

Tonight we enjoyed a nice dinner and a show.  Those people danced.  They sang.   They did a magic trick where they crammed a guy in a box.  A few moments later…. a woman popped out.  Kind of like a super-fast sex-change operation.   Right on stage.  Sort of.

Later in the act,  two acrobats hung from the ceiling.  The swirled around and made me nervous.   Pretty remarkable stuff…. I will certainly tell you…. especially on a boat… in the middle of the Baltic Sea.  One couldn’t help but to sit in amazement.

And when we finally got back to the cabin…. there was a towel animal on the bed.  I have named him Zeke.   The surprises, twists and turns to this whole thing are around every corner.  Again, I sit in awe.

Now.  Away from the word “lazy.” And on to the word… “conundrum.”  There is a huge shuffleboard tournament tomorrow.  I hate to miss it…. but we are heading to Berlin.

Guten Nacht.

“Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform.”  –  Christina Baldwin