Another fantastic sea day yesterday. Did I mention we saw over 200 migrating whales the day before?? There is such excitement about the new ship that I think everyone must have missed that. ;) We've discovered something else wonderful about this trip. There's a fairly large group of jazz musicians onboard who are all in a tour group. They've been doing jazz concerts at various places around the ship throughout the day. We're really, really enjoying them--especially a jazz singer named Brady McCay--she's fantastic. We have more concerts today at noon, at six and at nine. Can't beat that! And if anyone is a little more high brow than we are, there is also an Opera company onboard who are doing some concerts. The gold and platinum event featured a special performance by the opera group. The one thing we haven't done yet is play Pooch--we're just sooooo busy all the time --and we do spend a fair amount of time eating, you know. The food has been fabulous. One more sea day tomorrow and then we stop in Petroplavosk. We have a son who is an officer on a submarine, so we'll find this stop very interesting from a historical perspective. If you're interested in submarines, read "Blind Man's Bluff" about how we tapped into the Russian communications system during the cold war--it all happened under the water near Petroplavosk and the Kamchatka peninsula.