At 9am we attended the Protestant Sunday Service which was conducted by Alan, a United Church minister from New Hampshire. The theatre was nearly full and they ran out of hymn books (Celebrate). The Catholic priest attended and sat at the back near us. Alan called for a volunteer to play the keyboard but no one offered so we sang two hymns unaccompanied. He read from The Message version a diatribe by Jesus to the Scribes and Pharisees and challenged us not to be hypocrites.
After the Service we went to the Showroom to hear Dr Cooper talk on life on the ocean floor and he showed us pictures of angler fish, dragon fish and many more.
At 1:30 Malcolm went to a half hour talk by the Second Officer on the ship's navigation and took away a detailed description of the dimensions and characteristics of the Volendam. Meanwhile Lyn attended a floral art demonstration.
A lady gave us an illustrated talk on the history of surfing in Hawai'i. It was a shame that the nineteenth century missionaries closed down the sport until the early twentieth.
At dinner we had a discussion on theology with John who belongs to the Gospel Hall denomination. After he insisted that the King James Version of the Bible was the only reliable one, we could see not much point in proceeding.
After dinner the HAL singers and dancers performed DROOM. We have no idea what the story was, but the staging and dancing were great.
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