YES WE HAVE NO GYROS

November 17, 2017

A great day ashore in Rhodes, home of the long gone Colossus of Rhodes.  But the medieval town largely survives.  There are the old city fortress walls, a castle, a hospital from the 16th century, and more.  Oh yeah, and lots of souvenir shops.  Mom bought herself a great sweater.  I will let her tell you about it, but I heartily approved.

I don’t think we have ever set down at an eatery ashore before today.  We may have grabbed a soft drink or a snack, but we planned at lunch to have a real Greek gyro.  We picked out a restaurant, sat down, looked at the menu, decided on a chicken gyro, since this particular establishment did not have lamb on the menu (strange I know – even the gyro shop in the Augusta Mall features gyro that is 1/4 lamb).  Anyway, we told the waiter we wanted to share a chicken gyro.  He apologized and said they were out of chicken gyros.  We said, okay, we’ll take the pork gyro.  He said, okay, and then said, I am sorry we are out of pork gyros.  He made another offer, but we declined.  So yes, we have no gyros.  We have no gyros today.  Disappointing.

Another good dinner table tonight.  A couple from the Upper Michigan Peninsula and the other couple from Detroit.  Good conversation with no one trying to outdo the table with all the their cruises and places they’ve seen.  I had the short ribs (as opposed to long ribs?) and blue berry sundae for dessert – which I dribbled down the front of a brand new, first time worn, shirt.  Slobbo Bobbo!

Tomorrow we are going ashore on Crete, and another historic city.  We can’t walk into town on this one like we did today, but the cruise director said there are taxis and local buses to take us.  The captain said there was an 80% chance of rain tomorrow, so we may stay on board anyway.  Tune in to tomorrow’s blog to see.

Well, Bonnie has a great souvenir to tell you about, so I will turn the keyboard over to her.

TTFN

Well, we slept in today. I woke up at 7:50 and woke him at a little after 8 because we needed to bathe and have breakfast before getting off. While we were getting ready I was looking at my key card and I noticed that it expired on11/23/17. That is not good. We aren’t getting off until 12/8/17. So after breakfast we headed to the guest relations to inquire. They didn’t have me as getting on to start with and now I was getting off in a week. Well, the young man who started to help us was very rude to me and it upset me, so I walked away and let your Dad deal with it. They fixed both of my cards and now I can stay on till 12/8/17.

We then headed to the room got our going off stuff and headed to the gangway which was on deck 3. We walked off, got a map and headed for the old city and our walk around. We walked a total of 2.7 miles today. We toured a castle and a museum.  They were both very large stone buildings, with many rooms and several floors. As we were leaving the museum Dad asked what the building had been previously used for. The lady said it had been a hospital. The lower rooms were private rooms if you had enough money to pay for it and the rooms on the upper floor were the wards. After walking the cobble streets, seeing many cats wandering around today, no dogs, the dogs were in Athens, we were headed out of the town when we passed a store that had hundreds of beautiful sweaters, They were hand made by the man in the shop. They were hand knitted by him and made of 100% cotton thread. Absolutely beautiful. Well, I bought a dark blue, long sleeve sweater. Didn’t ask the price till we paid and it was 48 euros. But it was well worth the price. You need to wear a blouse or camisole under it because the weave is an open pattern. I had brought a black short sleeve blouse with me that I wore under the sweater this evening so I could wear it for supper. 

Your Dad’s purchase, guess, wait for it, a book. We headed back to the ship and went to the Lido deck for a salad. And of course ice cream. I had orange sherbert, mint chocolate chip and Neapolitan. He had strawberry. Then, back to the room for a nap and then off to supper.

The show tonight was a Mime. He was very entertaining. Never seen a show like this before. He started out as an ostrich hatching from an egg.  I guess you had to be there.

We are in the cabin and will go to bed soon. Oh, by the way the captain said the norovirus was improving only 4 new cases today and only a total of 13 people who are ill. Yeah. Wash those hands!!

Love, Mom, Granny and Bonnie