BLOG BY BONNIE

January 26, 2016

Okay here it is Wednesday night and I am writing the blog for Tuesday because David said there wasn’t anything to write about but what does he know!!

Well, we got up at 6:30 am because it was a sea day and he had 2 talks. He proceeded into the bathroom and spent his first half hour showering, etc. He came out and I went in to do my 10 minutes of showering and tooth brushing. While he was showering I was getting out my morning pills, my clothes for the day and working on one of my craft projects I haven’t finished yet. After I leave the bathroom he returns to continue. Finally he is finished and I am dressed and ready and we head to the elevators to go to Lido deck 9 for breakfast.

Well, breakfast was just fair. Stuff didn’t taste too good but was okay. It was just me. He went to the omelet line and before it was his turn the guy put his eggs on and had them ready when he got to the head of the line. Oh my we come here too much!

After breakfast he headed back to the room to rehearse and I went up to deck 10 to walk 4 times around about 1 mile. I am not the fastest so people are always passing me. It was really windy so I had help getting around the deck. After walking I headed to Deck 2 and the Captain’s annex to wait for the craft time to start. The guy who comes to pass out the materials is the Bingo guy and he is a weirdo! Let’s just leave it at that. The craft was a kit to make wooden luggage tags. Pretty nice. I got one finished and then it was time to head to David’s 10 o’clock talk.

So I got there about the time he did. There was a new tech guy today and he was not quite as handy as the other guy. But he finally got everything set up. Talk went well and there was a full house. I left as soon as he was finished because at 11 am there was to be a meeting in the Taj Mahal on Deck 2 for those who were disembarking and those who were staying on.  There are 800 of the 2200 staying on!!

Well, I get to the meeting and the bingo is still going on. Strange Guy is in charge and at about 10:50 he is just starting the last game which is a cover all game. If you do it in 49 balls or less you win $2000 if you need 50 or more only $300. Well, this game takes forever, well, only til about 11:15 then finally some lady wins all by herself on ball 55 or so. So she gets $300.  Oh by the way this bingo guy pops your bottom with a paddle when you win. I told you he was weird.

Well, the meeting starts, by this time David has arrived, and the cruise director starts with his list of the 10 dumbest questions asked by passengers. We have heard most of these before. But you chuckle along. He goes through the normal stuff and we find out we are to be in the Taj Mahal on Deck 2 about 10 am to get checked off, go through customs and get our new key cards and then we can get off if we want. 

By now it is 12 and we need to go to lunch so David can get back and prepare for the second talk. I go back to the room with him and I fall asleep so I miss the second talk. When he gets back, he takes a nap. We get dressed up tonight because, Katie  and Jordan are taking us to the steak house for supper. Their treat, actually Carnival’s treat. Great atmosphere and the biggest, 18 ounces, rib eyes I have ever seen. They were great but it was impossible to finish.

After supper we went to the show. It was great. It was the cruise lines singers and dancers. Nice show. We didn’t stay up much after the show as he was tired. It is a lot of work to do 2 talks in one day. So we retired about 9:30 and slept till about 8:30 this morning. So all in all we had a fun day!!