What a strange day.
Before any passengers can board, the ship has to get a zero count. So no one can stay on as a stowaway, I guess. There were about a dozen of us who were getting back on, so they took us by ourselves to customs and immigration and we were finished in 30 minutes.
We spent the day reading and socializing. We ate a late lunch because on this cruise, we have a late dinner seating. Bonnie would rather not eat that late, so tomorrow I will see if we can get the first seating – 6:00 vs. 8:30.
My beloved wife was a pip today. At lunch she lost her cane, and found it. Walking back to our room, she announced she had lost her phone – and subsequently found it in her pocket. Then she couldn’t find her audio book player. “I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find it!” It was in the bottom of her carry bag. I’ve been afraid to let her out of my sight since then.
So, we sat up on Deck 10 for the sailway, sipped cokes and watched Miami glide by.
I talked to one of the crew at the Shore Excursions desk, and he thanked me for promoting their trip out to Tulum. He feels like I picked up a few folks for them. We’ll be back in Cozumel on Thursday, and the cruise director asked me to do the same talk again. I’ll actually do 3 talks this time. “The Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Cozumel: The Land of Swallows” (which features Tulum). Don’t know yet what the third talk will be on the sea day coming home.
We came back to our stateroom to change clothes to go to the theater, and discovered a problem – the toilet won’t flush! Neither does the one in the stateroom down the hall from us. So maintenance has been called. In the meantime, we venture out to mid-ships where there are functioning toilets. Ain’t life grand. Ah, the life of cruise talker.
November 15, 2011
I am happy to report to you that the toilet is fixed, and a crisis averted. Let’s hear three cheers for the maintenance staff. Hip, hip, hooray! Keep it going. Hip, hip, hooray! You’re doing great. Hip, hip, hooray!
We went to the late seating for supper last night, but decided that supper at 8:30 is too late. So I asked for a change, and for the rest of the cruise, we will be at the early seating. We breakfasted by ourselves, but had lunch with two other couples. One from California, and the other from Aiken, SC. How neat is that.
The cruise director, Rich, moved me into the Cinema this morning for my “Pirates of the Caribbean” talk. A much more intimate venue than the sprawling theater. There were about 50 folk in for the talk, and they were a good crowd, listening, laughing at my corny jokes, and asking questions. I’ll do another talk tomorrow before we sail out of Roatan, Honduras. Unlike most cities where ships stop, there is very little to do dock side, unless you take an organized tour, and Rich said, a lot of the people will be back on board early, so I’ll talk about the Mayan ruins.
This is formal night, so I am going to try to post this, and then get into my Tux.
TTFN!
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