February 4, 2012
What a day! This is a day that saw the best laid plans of mice and men and cruise ships go astray.
Some 150 of our fellow passengers came down with gastrointestinal crud. One rumor circulating is that a helicopter landed on the ship in the night and took two severely ill people off and flew them to a local hospital. However it played out, all of the well people were disembarked first, and the sickos last. Then the entire ship at to be sterilized – CDC rules. At first we were told, “You’ll be able to reboard at 2 o’clock.” Then it was 4. Finally it was 5:45. As a result, we will not sail until 10:30 tonight, which means we will miss our stop at Princess Cays. I’m not sure what that will mean for my talk schedule, but I do have an extra talk with me.
We relocated to Dolphin 230, having spent last week in Aloha 237. This stateroom seems a little smaller, but it is very adequate, since we don’t spend a lot of time in it.
The emergency life jacket drill is at 10:00 p.m. Regulations require it before we sail. Immediately thereafter, it will be bed time for we two (Bonnie is already napping – I got four naps sitting in the Broward County Convention Center for 8 hours).
We had supper with Buddy and Jan from St. Louis and Ken and Larry from Idaho. Again because of the delays in getting onboard, the dining room arrangements for tonight were discarded and every dining room was open for any time dining.
Well, that’s all folks.
TTFN!
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