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Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands)
May 7, 2001
Scoreboard: 8680 miles; 3 Countries, 20 states

We Cross the Atlantic, Appear in a Talent Show and Listen to Jumpin' Jack Flash

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After five days of nothing but beautiful water the crew and passengers are getting a bit restless, and things aren't quite as cheerful as they were. One British food worker was openly threatening to return to her "mum" if she's not given a vacation soon. A foul-mooded passenger ranted relentlessly that water was coming out of what was allegedly supposed to be an iced tea dispenser. None of this has effected the unrestrained torrent of adoration for Myles from all quarters.

We've taken to eating our dinners in the more casual Windjammer, skipping out on the full (enthusiastic, almost overbearing) service in the more elegant Great Gatsby Dining Room. There are several reasons for this defection, the main one being that we're able to get seats with a better view of the ocean. The food in both places is great, plentiful, and nutritious (or at least not unhealthy in quantities about half of what we're consuming).

I assure you that we haven't abandoned The Great Gatsby just because last time we went the entire place erupted into the Macarena. That was just a symptom.

The kids on board (9 in all, counting our 4) had a talent show that Kasmira most certainly would have won had there been a prize. She performed a wonderful airy dance to the Britney Spears standard Hit Me Baby One More Time. She was joined, at several points by Myles escaping Theresa's clutches, and later by her sisters for a nice bout with a song including the immortal lyrics "Coca-Cola went to town/Pepsi Cola shot him down..."

The crowd loved it all.

We were witnesses to an only slightly less spectacular exhibition of talent that evening when we caught our first of the ongoing shows in the ship's several theatres. In all honesty it must be said that it was really our second show, but we, one at a time, and as inconspicuously as possible, left "The New and Not So Newlywed Game" when ...