HOT AS HONDURAS

September 23, 2019


Yes, dear readers, it was hot today.  I have no idea how hot it was, but we walked off the ship, went through half of the tourist trap sales area, bought a couple of souvenirs, and one Diet Coke and were back in the air conditioned air as soon as possible.  Even I was hot!  It is beautiful here.  If they’d just dial the heat back a little bit.  And tomorrow is Cozumel, probably just as hot, but we are going to venture into town and find a Mexican restaurant for our midday meal.

In the Fantasy Rummy tournament, she caught up.  It is now 4-4, and in the last game, she beat me 575 to 125.  I have forgotten how many times I was negative, and it hurts too much to go look.  So we switched to Casino, played to 50 and she beat me by 9 points.  I’m going to the ship’s casino tomorrow and get a new deck of cards.  This has got to stop.

We had supper tonight with Tom and Jo Sanders, the dance instructors for this cruise.  We’ve sailed with them before, but tonight was the first time we’ve been able to arrange eating supper together.  Good fellowship, and an okay dinner selection.  I tried the chicken liver appetizer, but it was too dry.  The Japanese sea bass I had for my main course was very good.

By the time we got out of dinner, it was almost time for the evening’s variety show to begin and of course our front row balcony seats were gone.  I could see if I leaned to the right, but Bonnie couldn’t see at all.  So while I watched the juggler, she played Scrabble on her phone.  We both had a good time.

Last night we set our clocks back an hour.  Tonight we are setting them forward an hour.  No one explained why because normally on Carnival you don’t change your clocks.  It is always the time in the port from which you sailed.  But it’s their ship and they can do what they want.  At least we are back on Mobile time, only an hour earlier than Georgia.

Well, I’m finished with my part, so I will turn it over to Mom, Granny, and Bonnie.

TTFN

A small attempt at humor.  It was hot in Roatan but there were rain clouds over head and I thought it got a little cooler as we walked around. There is really pretty scenery in the area where they have all the touristy stuff. We even saw three hummingbirds flying in the trees feeding on the pretty blooms. We stopped to watch them. Then, we proceeded to look around. We bought a couple of little things and he bought a nice ceramic turtle (no not for you Amy) but for the young lady who help find us a room after we got on the ship. Her name is Jennifer and she was very nice. She had given us a bottle of champagne, which we don’t drink, and we gave to another couple who do and attend our talks.  I bought a cold diet coke to carry on the ship and have over ice with my lunch. It was great. We carried drinks on the ship but have no refrigerator so in the evening we have them warm poured over ice.

After cards then lunch, we went back and played some more cards. Before we resumed our card playing, we went to the Serenity deck area to see the damage done by the Panama mishap. The ship actually struck the walls on both sides. When we went off the ship on the port side you could see down about 5 feet above the water line a long black scratch. One the deck 9 on the starboard side in the Serenity area it tore up the railing and buckled some of the floor boards. It also broke some of the railing on the port side. We think they will bring on some repair crew when we get back to Mobile that will sail with next cruise and do repairs while they sail.

 Then, after the second round of card playing we headed to the room for a nap. He napped I did not. At about 4:00 I went on deck to watch sail away. All aboard was at 3:30 but we didn’t actually sail away till after 5. I don’t know why.

We didn’t go to supper at our usual time so that is why we didn’t get any seats at the show. It was an okay show. It was a juggler. After the show we went to the forum lounge to watch a PG comedy routine. The comic had gotten on in Roatan. He had some funny stuff but we didn’t really like the jokes about racism and such. He said that the other comic that was supposed to have gotten on didn’t make his flight so this guy will be doing all the shows. All the other shows this evening are R rated and we do not like those. So we are back in our room. He is reading and I am going to finished my hearts game and then do some dot-to-dot puzzles. We don’t get into Cozumel until 9:30 so no rush in the morning.  Tomorrow will be another slow day. Nice relaxing days.

Well, love you all. Be home Thursday unless we stop somewhere on the way home. Home for sure on Friday.

Love Mom, Granny and Bonnie