We were kind of dragging, so Bob only walked 2 miles and
Julie did 3. We were also in a hurry
because the first talk was at 9:45am. It
was by USC’s Drew Casper doing an introduction to the film: “From Here to
Eternity” (1953). His introduction was
about how Sinatra was re-inventing himself and how he got the job to play the
character Angelo DiMaggio (he won the best supporting Oscar for this
role). We don’t think that either of us
had seen the movie before. It was a
pretty good movie and Frank definitely did a great job acting.
The movie finished at a few minutes after noon, so we ran up
to team trivia and barely made it. The
captain’s noon talk was discussing nautical miles and what it means. We again did ok on trivia, but some team got
14/15 right.
We then went and tried to wolf down a quick lunch (as there
was a talk at 1:30pm). We had salads and
a crispy chicken enchilada (which was actually quite good). We made the talk by William Squire in plenty
of time. This time he discussed makeup
and fashion tricks and trends for the fall Hollywood scene. He was again quite entertaining. Even though Bob was bored with the stuff
about makeup, he enjoyed the talk. Julie
even took notes!!
We then went to the 2:30pm talk by Ester Kim Lee (a
professor from University of Maryland) who discussed the movie “Flower Drum
Song” (1961). We then screened the movie
from about 3pm until 5pm. It was quite
interesting to see how much movies have evolved. Flower Drum Song was a musical that came from
the Broadway play of the same name.
Julie liked it, but Bob thought that it was slow and had some really
weird parts (a couple of dream sequences were just plain bizarre).
After that, we got dressed for dinner and headed to the
Crystal Cove for a pre-dinner glass of wine.
We again had dining by reservation at 6:15.
Our first course was Puff Pastry Tart with
forest mushrooms served with fine herb salad.
It was great.
Second course was the Roasted Beet Salad that included
orange slices, argula, spice pecans and roast shallow vinaigrette. Again, it was terrific.
Here is a view out of the window by our table.
For the entrée Julie had Dover Sole “a la Meuniere” with
melted butter, parsley potatoes and almond broccoli. Dover Sole is one of Julie’s favorite foods
and she loved it.
Bob had the pasta dish which was “Butternut Squash Ravioli”
with sage cream, brown butter, mushrooms and parmesan shavings. It was amazing, but very rich.
For dessert, Bob had “Banoffee Oat Trifle” with oats, fresh
bananas, yogurt cream, caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream. He thought it was excellent. Julie had the White Chocolate Mocha
Cheesecake with Coffee Buzz ice cream.
She liked the ice cream, but didn’t care for the cheesecake.
After dinner, they had an 8pm show in the Stardust Club
(available to both main and late seating guests). The show was “Hear My Song – A Journey
Through Broadway’s Best” starring Kelly Lester.
She sang for 30 minutes. Julie
liked the show, but Bob didn’t really like her voice. It was very powerful, but she had a warble in
her voice that he didn’t really enjoy.
After that, we went to the 8:45pm variety show in the Galaxy
Lounge. The show began with a dance
piece by Epic Moves – Leighton Jones and Jo Almond. They were spectacular, very beautiful and
very athletic. After that dance, the comedian
ventriloquist Mark Merchant did his show.
Mark is extremely talented. You
just can’t see his lips moving. He even
did a bit where he drank a glass of wine while he sang. Pretty cool!!!
We then went to the Bistro for some cheese and port.
We were going to lose another hour tonight,
so we went to bed at about 10:30 (11:30 new time). Julie walked about 11K steps and 5 miles (but
was about 2K behind).
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