April 28, 2015 NO PREHOONDEY SAN PEDRO

April 28, 2015


NO PREHOONDEY SAN PEDRO

Well, this is going to be a different day.  Long Beach dock is broken, so we are tying up in San Pedro – a container terminal – out in the middle of no where surrounded by lots of nothing to do.  Two of our table mates, Brian and Elizabeth – very frequent cruisers – say that there is nothing in the area to explore.  I’ll let you know.

I am told I have been remiss in my blogging duties, not giving you details about our table mates, nor our waiters, so I will attempt to correct that.

From conversation, I do not believe that either of the ladies worked outside of the home.  Brian was in management, and Ron was a graphic artist.  Ron said he and his partner worked with felt tipped pens and eventually hired two young computer savvy guys who did all the electronic stuff and then they sold the company to them. 

All four have known each other for years in the Vancouver Victoria area.  Brian and Elizabeth are native Canadians.  Ron and Ann are Brits who moved to British Columbia more than 20 years ago – they still carry British passports, speak with refined accents, and eat with the backs of their forks.

Ciara is our waitress and Gustavo is our junior waiter.  They are both very good and very friendly.  Saturday morning Gustavo waited on us at breakfast in the dining room, and told me his fiancé was meeting the ship and they would get to spend the day together.  He had Saturday night off, so Sunday night I asked him if she had gotten to come and he said they had a great time, and said that “Today is my birthday.”  I secretly asked Ciara if she could get a cake so we could sing to him, she did – it came with two lighted candles – and when we did I thought the boy would cry.  Good stuff!

Well, I am going to go set off the smoke detector.  Every morning when I am showering, or when She Who Must Be Obeyed is showering (whoever goes first) we get a call from the Bridge saying the smoke detector signal has come on.  The smoke detector in our cabin is 5 feet from the shower door, but when the hot, steamy air comes out it activates the alarm on the Bridge (Captain there is an anomaly on my sensors) and we get a phone call.  Glad they keep an eye on it.  We’ve tried leaving the door all the way open, partly open, or completely closed and then opening it.  All three set off the alarm.  The only way that it doesn’t go ringy-dingy is to leave the door closed and dry off in a steam cabinet.  Bonnie did that once.  She was not pleased.

I’m going to post this, and if there is any excitement after the poker game, I’ll be back with more.  If not WiFi from Vancouver on Friday.

Bonnie’s Turn: We went to the show last night after supper. It was a long haired hippie comedian about 60 years old. He played an old fashioned guitar, sang and told jokes. He did not have any back up orchestra. He was hilarious. We laughed so hard we cried. And his jokes were not vulgar but just funny. He sang Beach Boys stuff (he used to sing with the Beach Boys), B J Thomas, Neil Diamond, and others. He had the audience do sing along on parts. It was a really fun time. He had one of the longest shows so far. Most shows have only been about 30 minutes but his was 45. He is a rather short rotund guy and he told jokes about showering in his cabin. Very funny.
  
Glitch number who knows. My Kindle decided to not play my games last night. The last time it did this I had to uninstall them and reinstall them. There is supposedly a wifi spot on this container dock and we are going to go off and maybe I can get my kindle working or else the trip home is going to be very boring!! Remember we have a long flight home from Vancouver.

Supper last night was the Italian night. I finally had some spaghetti with marinara sauce. They had meat balls but I didn’t eat those.

If we get off, we are 7 miles from anything worthwhile and to walk to something you have to walk along a busy highway. So we will go to the terminal and back on. There are no shops at the terminal or anything of interest except thousands of containers.

I think this is going to be a 2 times ice cream day or more!!!
 
TTFN