TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA

October 13, 2017

Well Happy Friday the 13th y’all!  Any triskaidekaphobians out there?  Then this is a bad day for you.  Just knock on wood and throw some salt over your left shoulder with your right hand and you should be okay!

Tomorrow my talk is at 10 a.m. because the magician has been inserted into my time slot to do some close-up magic and teach some tricks.  That means room service in Stateroom 1067, and a three egg ham and cheese omelet.  My first room service on this cruise.  My talk tomorrow is “John Harrison: The “creator” of longitude, or how we get from here to there.”  This will be the first time I’ve done this talk, and I’ve been sneaking in extra rehearsals around talks I’ve done before.

The show tonight was “1000 Steps” and featured the Koningsdam Singers and Dancers.  It was ball room music with a Latin beat.  Bonnie and I both remarked after the show, “How do those dancers change costumes so quickly?”  The show was great and the cast got a long, and well-deserved applause.

Well,  0600 comes awfully early (that’s my alarm time), and I need to rehearse before bedtime.  My cabin mate may not get a chance to beat me tonight.  She stomped another mud hole in me last night and now leads 1-6.  I may never recover.

TTFN

2.7 miles today. Up at 5 am, couldn’t sleep. We both got up about 7. I dressed and he showered. We ventured out to breakfast. Then, I went walking, very cool and windy, and he went to practice. After my walk in what was a cloudy, rainy overcast morning, I returned to the cabin to shower and go out to find a spot to crochet on Lido. They had closed the cover over the deck since it was rainy so it was not cool as I had hoped. He came up early for lunch because he wanted to go Angel’s talk. They didn’t open the theater till 1:30 because they were practicing for tonight’s show. So I patiently waited outside the theater. I had a small plate of spaghetti with marinara sauce for lunch today. I am glad I did because supper was not very good. The corn chowder soup was good, the pineapple sundae was good but the salad was not as described in the menu and was not good. My entree was a chicken and quinoa pasta and not very tasty.  Oh, well.

The show was very good and there was a full audience. Our supper started out moving very fast and we thought we might get out early but after they removed the main course plates it took over 30 minutes to serve dessert and coffee.  We managed to find 2 seats that weren’t being saved that were high enough so I could see.  People are very selfish. I can see saving a seat for your mate if they are a little late or at the restroom. But laying something over 4 or 5 seats is not right.  Oh well, that is just my opinion.

Well, tomorrow we will be up early. Up at 6am and I will go walking about 6:30. Then, breakfast by myself upstairs and then back to the room to shower. Then I will head to the theater for his talk.  There is another BBC  show, called “Inside Earth: Extreme Worlds” at noon tomorrow we will probably go to see. It sounds interesting. There really hasn’t been a lot of activities to do but I enjoy sitting, watching people and crocheting. 
 Well, that is all for now. He needs to do some studying before bedtime.

Love, Mom, Granny and Bonnie