Another sea day - after breakfast I went for a gaming lesson on the strategies of betting in blackjack, such as doubling down and splitting, neither concept of which I understood. Apparently at this time of day the casino is not busy and the dealers are happy to instruct players in the finer arts of blackjack. While I was there, Roger picked up our passports (which were confiscated at the time of embarkation) and went for a walk on the deck. When I finished my lesson, I joined him in a full circumnavigation of the deck. We tried to walk a good deal on sea days.
On the way down to the harbor yesterday we saw this bust of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first Turkish president.
Later I sat in on Art 102 while Roger attended a chat with the cruise director. After lunch, we joined a few other people for some bridge. Unfortunately, it was set up in a restaurant whose balcony overlooks the art auction area, and there was an art auction going on for most of the two hours we played bridge. The bridge was good enough, but the din going on around us was distracting.
Even later in the afternoon, we tried some cha-cha dance lessons. The instructor called this Urban cha-cha, and it was done without a dance partner - something of a line dance with a cha-cha beat. About half-way through, I quit after the same girl stepped on my feet twice, and she wasn’t even my partner!
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