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Published: March 4th 2010
Happy 100th Birthday!
The ship celebrates Dr. Lloyd Tinkle's birthday in grand style. Here he is in one of his colorful outfits.After our return to the ship last night, we got ready to attend Lloyd Tinkle’s 100th birthday party. A veteran world cruiser and close friend of the Seven Seas Voyager, there was an incredible 1-hour celebration of Lloyd’s birthday in the Constellation Theater attended by a majority of the almost 700 people on the ship. Dr Tinkle, not a medical doctor, but PhD of law, was a professor at Joliet College in Illinois along with his wife of many years, also taught law. He still lives in the vintage home he was born, in Sioux City, Iowa, where he returned to after his long stint in Illinois. He plays bridge with us every afternoon during sea days, plays the piano in the atrium early each morning, and as a Mason, he reads and memorizes his book each morning. He has an amazing flair for his dress, especially at ship functions, as seen at his birthday photos. He goes on many of the excursions and does not have a personal caretaker. He is really quite an example for all of us!
In the morning, we got on the tender earlier than expected and met Komang and Wayan about 9:00am. Komang greeted
The Happy Travelers
We definitely wanted to share in the celebration as we have sailed with him this year and last. We see him each day at sea when he plays bridge with us, and on many excursions when we are in a port. us with another couple kilos of mangosteen and newspapers. Along the way, as we were going through a small village, we saw a bunch of men working construction on a temple, on Sunday. We also saw several paper mache manikins in semi-completion, so we stopped to take photos. The guys welcomed us and stopped working a minute to be friendly. They had a bucket brigade style of working. We also saw these manikins as we drove along, so we asked Komang about them. They are created for a religion ceremony, and when over, they burn them in effigy to rid any bad spirits.
As we discuss religion and Bali tradition, one of the examples is in the naming process of children. There are only four names in Bali and they correspond with the child’s birth order. A first born child is named Wayan (like our driver), a second born is Made, a third is Ketut and a fourth is Nyoman. If a family has more than 5 children, the cycle repeats itself with the difference of adding an “I” prefix to males and “Ni” for females.
Following that we went to the batik factory. We watched them during
Shipmates
Mike, Evy, Bruce and Kathryn also attended the party. the process and then bought several things before leaving. Annette was looking for more Balinese bells, so we then went to another silver place, and actually we found the place we went to last year.
We wanted to see one of the high-end hotels in Bali and Komang took us to the Amandari Hotel, which was very nice. We walked around for a while and then went back to Ubud, where we walked around and explored the market, which is a very interesting experience. Dana, our assistant cruise director had given Annette the name of Nadya, a lady that makes nice clothes in Ubud. So, Komang called to find her place, and we stopped by. Annette bought a couple things. Nadya is originally from Chicago and has lived in Bali about 30 years. She has a very interesting and unique home, which is also where she has her clothing business. The time was getting near that we had to head back to the ship, so rather than risking being late, we had the guys take us back. We had a fabulous couple of days on Bali!
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