It is absolutley a gorgeous day today as we head East toward South Georgia; it is clear sunny 50 degrees with a slight swell. Sitting on the aft deck sipping capuccinos and bloody marys; the sea birds (albatross and sea pectrals mostly) are lazily swooping in on the draft created as the ship moves forward all in all a spectacular day. We have had to lectures today - history of South Georgia and fishing the southern ocean both very interesting.
Ashley and Phoebe have blown us off to participate in the Young Explorers program and hang out with the other kids (there are about a dozen of them on board). This evening the kids are having dinner with the host of the TV show Emergency Vet shown on discovery channel.
Last night was a late one hanging out discussing the economic problems of the world with Rob (a technolgy venture captalist) and Morris a harvard business school graduate that was one of the people responsible for inventing the computer interface between the wall street ticker tape and the consumer thereby allowing for onhline trading). They were quite impressed with my knowledge of world economics and asked my opinion as to how I woul;d advise Obama, (just kidding..................actually they ended up giving me a lecture on economics 101!!!!!!) but it was a really fun evening.
The weather is supposed to be good for the next 24 hours thereby allowing for us to arrive in South Georgia around 2.00 PM tomorrow; we will keep our fingers crossed as we have learned that weather can change in a matter of minutes in this area of the world.
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