The Park West people were going to play "Destino", the short animated film that had been planned jointly by Walt Disney and Salvatore Dali. Dali had already drawn a storybook with 180 scenes and the music had been created, when Disney Studio ran low on money and pulled the plug. They shelved the project and stored it in a vault, but 50 years later they happened to rediscover the Dali story board and decided to finally complete the project. Park West was sponsoring it, because they were also selling groups of lithographs of the storyboard pictures. Be that as it may, the short was really worth seeing; Dali weirdness is enough to make Disney sweetness no longer quite as innocent. I had seen this film before on another ship, but on the Noordam they showed it in the Queens Lounge which doubled as a movie theater. I enjoyed seeing it again but not, however, enough to buy the lithographs (after all where would we put them?).

Since Bob was under the weather I went to the reception for repeat passengers of Holland America by myself, had some wine, listened to the Captain, and left with a nice little tile with the Holland America Logo. But later when the Captain was autographing his books we both went. Bob had already read and enjoyed his "log book", so we also purchased two children's books written by the Captain ("Peter the Cruise Ship" and "Peter goes to Alaska") for our grandchildren, which he very nicely autographed.