We were finally rested up enough, plus gaining an hour, that we woke up early. After breakfast, we decided it was time to do some walking. So we went out on the promenade deck and starting to walk 8 laps, about 3 miles. It was just about time for sunrise. On every lap, the sky looked different over the stern and we had to stop for photographs until on the last lap the sun was too high in the sky.

This day, there were lots of activities, most of them in the Princess Theater. It started with a cooking demonstration. It actually was a cooking competition. Two men from the audience were teamed with the executive chef and an assistant chef to cook two meals, a pasta dish, and a shrimp dish. All the ingredients were there and the executive chef told them what to do. Actually, most of the time he did it himself. He had a rather dry wit and it was a lot of fun. We then even had a tour of the galley. Everything is in spotless stainless steel.

Next there was "A Naturalists view of Greenland". Bob was going to meet me in the theater. So I hastened back to the theater after the galley tour. No Bob. I was afraid he might have taken a nap, so I hastened down to our room. No Bob. At this point, I decided to just get back to the theater and get a couple of seats, since it was within 15 minutes of the start of the lecture, and seats were going fast. I did get a couple of good seats, and Bob finally did appear and told me that he had joined Mary Ellen and Leonard in a Trivia game, and their team had won. Yay, Bob! The lecture was a slide presentation of the landscape and fauna and flora of Greenland by the astronomer cum naturalist. Somewhat interesting but he does get off on tangents.

At 12:00 a Danish captain spoke about navigating in the icy waters around Greenland. He had come on board specifically to help with the navigation. While he was talking the captain came on over the intercom to let us know that two icebergs had been spotted, one on each side of the ship. Somehow it never occurred to me, to be worried about icebergs. I don't know why not, after all, the Titanic sank much farther south than we were at this point. We did go out one at a time to look at the iceberg, but then came quickly back into the theatre since for this talk the theater was already completely filled.

The next talk was the port talk on Qaqortoq and we did not want to miss that. We were getting hungry but did not want to relinquish our good seats in the theater. So Bob went up to the buffet and fixed a couple of rolls with meat and cheese and brought our water bottle and we munched away before the next talk started. Again the theater was filled over capacity, with people sitting on the stairs and standing in the aisles. The port lecturer is an independent lecturer not promoting tours or shops. But his way of presenting is, to talk about all the points of interest, while a slide of the flag of the country is being shown, and afterwards run quickly through a slide show. It is very interesting, but would be nicer to have the slides with the explanation.

But our time in the princess theater was not finished yet. The next presenters were Marlene and Chet talking about and singing Cole Porter songs. While we had a 15 minute break, I went up to get a couple of slices of pizza and a glass of ice tea. Thus fortified we really did enjoy the Cole Porter program. This broadway series is really unusual. Marlene tells about the life of the composer and sings the representative songs in 45 minutes. This was the 5th program, and in each one she sang and Chet played the music completely off book -- and I have trouble memorizing one song a year for the recital. She has a beautiful trained Mezzo-soprano voice and does justice to all the different songs.

After this we finally left the Princess Theater to get our cameras and get pictures of the icebergs on either side of us. It was getting colder and we finally gave up purely because our fingers were getting stiff. After dinner, there were more pictures to be had with icebergs in the sunset.

And finally, much later when it really was completely dark, we went up on Deck 16 and indeed could see the Northern Lights. They were not spectacular, but there was a definite green glow in the northern sky. The cold did finally chase us down, but we were looking forward to our next port of call.