FUNNY STUFF

March 3, 2019

Regular readers of this blog have heard me complain before about comedians, especially those who do insult comedy, too lazy to develop a real routine and tell funny stories.  Well, tonight’s comic, JeROME (that’s the way he spells it) was hilarious.  He told stories about young people and technology, old people and technology.  He made fun of cruise ship cabins and cruise ship bathrooms.  He picked on Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.  He did horror movies.  And ended up with a great parody of Michael Jackson (instead of one glove, he wore a tube sock – actually, he got that one wrong because he put it on his left hand and Michael Jackson wore his glove on his right hand – and does anyone remember the joke from the 1980s: Why are the Atlanta Braves like Michael Jackson? They both wear one glove for no apparent reason.  I laughed!).

Tomorrow we sail into the Panama Canal, go through two locks and then anchor in Lake Gatun and sail back out.  My cruise buddy is annoyed that there appears to be no place on the ship where we can get way forward to watch us actually entering the locks.  So we’ll find a different vantage point and enjoy a new perspective.

After we turn to sail out of the last lock, I will be doing my talk on Art.  At this afternoon’s photography talk, I told the folks about the upcoming art talk and assuring them it had nothing to do with the on board ship’s auctions sponsored by Park West Galleries (if you are new to cruising, let me tell you that almost every ship at sea has a PWG and the same paintings from ship which they try to hock in a make believe auction – one lady on this cruise told me she won the door prize at an auction and then they wanted her to pay to frame the picture and have it mailed to her home – she turned the prize down).  I told them I had two art talks, one on museums, artists, and history from three Caribbean islands, and the other on the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.  At the end of the photography talk I let them vote on which one they wanted to hear and the Caribbean won the day.  So that’s tomorrow, and to be repeated two days hence.

Speaking of art talks, I need to begin my rehearsal, so it’s time for Blogging with Bonnie.

TTFN

I got up twice last night to potty, in case you are keeping count!  We got up at 7 and got ready and headed for breakfast. I decided on a bacon sandwich with mustard and some cantaloupe. Still haven’t found any good hot chocolate. After breakfast it was off to walk. I walked about an hour for 5000 steps. Then, down to the room to get my crocheting. I decided to sit outside today in the great sea air. I found a spot on deck 3 outside on the deck. It was great. At just before 10 I went to the Eagles lounge to his talk at 10. It is the photography one and it is always interesting. There have been good crowds at all the talks.

When were walking to the Atrium after the talk, we saw a sign that said get your free charm bracelet from 3to 6, today only. So we stopped and asked and picked up a coupon for the free, pandora like bracelet.

After the talk we went to the atrium on deck 3 to watch the dance instructors teach the Cha-cha-cha. On the dancers from the crew show comes to the lessons with his girl friend and they take the lesson. He is a very good dancer and a singer too. I think he is my favorite one of the group of 7 singers and dancers. After the lesson we went to lunch. Today we sat outside by the pizza place and had a pepperoni pizza and a caesar salad. Then, of course an ice cream cone. Then, we finished a match of Yahtzee. He won.

After the game he walked back to the room to get ready and I went to the Eagles lounge. His talk started at 3 but I wanted to go get the freebie. So I left about quarter to 3. There was already a line and I joined it. I would have been 5 people ahead but 5 people came and joined the line with their friends even though there were people in line already behind their friends. Not fair.  Besides the free bracelet you could get a set of 5 charms for $10 and there is a charm of the day for $5 and when you have 8 charms you get a free ship charm. Well, I bought the 5 charms and there was a choice today of three other charms and I got a turtle.
Now I need two more to get my ship. By the time I had gotten my stuff the line was all the way back to the casino, about 50 or people in line. Glad I went early. I made it back for the last 30 minutes of the talk. The afore mentioned dancer and his girl friend were at the talk. Cool.

Then, it was back to the room for a nap before getting ready for supper. Only 2 other couples showed for supper at our table. Supper  was just okay. The best part was the chocolate panna cotte, a kind of pudding. But the company was good and we had a good time talking.

The show tonight was a singer, Consuela Ivy. We have gone to her show twice before on other ships and don’t care for the show. She has a beautiful voice  and can sing but she only sings about 4 songs in an hour. She does a lot of talking and other stuff. Don’t care for it. So we went to the PG comedy show.

Now back in the room. I think tomorrow I am going to go to deck 3 and sit and watch when we go through the canal. I have seen the gates before so I will watch the “mules” which are trains that pull the ships though. It will be fun.

Well, bedtime now or soon. Mike and Ivy we will be thinking of you and Gabe tomorrow.

Love you all. Mom, Granny and Bonnie