ARE YOU A YINZER?

December 17, 2018

I wore one of my Pirates t-shirts to breakfast this morning to celebrate the Steelers win over the Boston Cheatriots (I don’t have any Steelers t-shirts, just a sweat shirt) and a man approached me and asked, “Are you a Yinzer?”  You Pirate fans know what he was asking, but for the rest of you, he was asking, “Are you from Pittsburgh?”  To which I replied – all together now – “No, I grew up in Oakland, Maryland which is 2 hours south of Pittsburgh and as a child we got two TV stations, half of them KDKA ...”

It turns out he was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, now retired.  I asked him if he knew DK (this is in-house for Michael and Matthew) and he does, both of them having worked for the PPG.  We chatted about Pittsburgh in particular and baseball in general and The Best Management Team in Baseball.  It was fun.

I told you yesterday that I was supposed to do my Spice talk today and the Salt talk was advertised.  I am supposed to do the Cod talk tomorrow and the Spice talk is advertised.  I found that out about 30 minutes ago when we got back to the room after the show (a really great production show called “Do You Want to Dance?”).  So I need to start over again on my rehearsal, and I need to cut it because tomorrow I only have 45 minutes instead of an hour with the Captain following me with a Q&A.  I am approaching the big time – I am the opening act for the Captain of the ship!

Speaking of said Captain, at 4:20 today he instructed his communications officer to “address intercraft” (see Star Trek: The Menagerie) and reported that we had sailed 1762 nautical miles from Tenerife and were now 1762 nautical miles from Fort Lauderdale, or halfway back to dry land.  I thought you should know.

Well, there’s more stuff, but rehearsal calls, so ...

TTFN

Well, the music was very good and the singing was good and the dancing what I could see of it was good. Seats tonight were just so-so. Most of the show we viewed from the side of it or the back of it as the stage area extends down onto the floor and we were three rows back. Oh well, I enjoyed it none the less. The kids, well not really kids, but a whole lot younger than us old fogies were good.

Well, the clocks went back last night so we got an extra hour of sleep. Other than waking up on the hour every hour after 1 am, I am sleeping pretty good. After breakfast I walked
2+ miles on the jogging track.  It was great outside. I listened to my book and walked away. Not to many people out. After walking I went back and picked up my crocheting stuff and headed for the cabaret. The salt talk was good and well attended. There was a ship talk about food and how they get it on board afterward and we stayed to listen to that.
We met up with Roberta and Richard after the talk, and Roberta had fallen in her cabin this morning and hurt her knee. She was hobbling and we told her to go to see the doctor. She did and she has bruised her knee pretty bad. They gave her a brace to wear if she walks but told her to ride in a wheel chair for a couple of days plus they gave her some drugs. She is doing okay. Her husband is a large man who has diabetes and has had a heart attack in the past so managing pushing her in the wheel chair is a challenge.

After lunch we went to deck 4 and played in a frisbee challenge game. They had crocheted discs which you threw. First we threw for distance, I scored 28 and you Dad scored 27. Next we threw for accuracy and I scored 15 and Dad 5. Nobody got even close to my accuracy score. So I won a prize for it. I picked a little princess bag. After the game it was back to the room for a nap.

Tonight at supper it was Italian night!! Yeah!! They had a fantastic penne for an appetizer and spaghetti for main course. I had the three flavors of gellato for dessert. Best dinner so far this cruise.

Well, we are back in our room and he is studying and I am trying to make a crocheted frisbee. Don’t have a pattern so I am playing it by ear. Will see.

Mac I hope you are feeling better.
Love Mom, Granny, Bonnie