September 24, 2019
It’s not exactly Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, but, while we were ashore in Roatan, we bought a gift for Jennifer, the head of guest relations who got us moved from the dungeon of R-52 to the almost heaven of E-112. We gave it to her tonight, a sculpture of two sea turtles “swimming” along side an undersea plant. I should have taken a picture so you could have seen it – we thought it was nice, and we gave it to Jennifer wrapped up, so she had no idea what it was. I told her if she didn’t like it she could sell it on eBay. Well, when we got back to the room after dinner and the PG Comedy show (more about that in a moment) on our bed was a note from Jennifer thanking us for the turtles – she liked them – and she said she has a collection of turtles at home. And she gave these two names already: Tarta and Ruga. If anyone knows what those names reference, give an email.
And we bought a turtle for a collector back home, and a turtle for Bonnie to go with her increasing collection.
Back to the PG Comedy show. The performer, Mark Simmons, put on a good show. He is the kind of comedian I like – he told stories, wove several ideas into a routine and then changed gears to another story. He didn’t pick out members of the audience and insult them. That’s not funny. And it’s why we never sit down front for the comedy show. Anyway, before Brooks, the comedy club host, brought Mark out, he said there would be two more shows tonight, both of them adults only. And he said, if you couldn’t get a seat for this PG show – and every seat in the Forum Lounge was full, and people were standing around 3 walls – come back for the two adults only shows because there will be seats for everyone.
Now, wait a minute! If you slam pack out the one PG show and you can’t fill up the two Adults Only Shows, why don’t you have two PG shows and only one cussing, nasty AO show?
We ate supper again tonight with Tom and Jo and swapped war stories. You may think, dear reader, that cruising is all fun and games, romping on the high seas, eating great food, and seeing exotic places. Well, it is 99.5% of the time. But the other times, when recounted with folks who have been there and done that, you get a laugh out of stuff that aggravated the fool out of you before. And stuff that the folks back home would not believe, or if they did believe it, would hide your car keys and not let you cruise any more. And no, I will not share any of those stories with you because you would hide my car keys or not let us cruise any more.
Tomorrow is my last talk, and then we pack up for the drive home. And it is the only talk of this cruise that is not on the front of the Fun Times – too much other stuff going on ship wide tomorrow, what with debarkation talks, the crew variety show, and the farewell show with cruise director Rico Suave. But the talk has been promoted at the other four by me, and by the cruise director, so it will be, as one reader of this blog would say, “It’s all good.”
I’m done for tonight. Mom’s turn.
TTFN
Well, last night we turned the clocks back to Mobile time. We went to bed at about 12 am Mobile time (that’s 1 am Augusta time), but at 5 am Mobile time I was wide awake. So I got up and sat in the one chair in the room and played on my phone and sometime around 6 someone was moving furniture and the person in the room next door was flushing the toilet and opening and shutting drawers so I went back and sat in the bed. As I sat in the bed I continued to play on the phone till he got up at about 7:30. (They are moving furniture right now somewhere up above our room. Dragging chairs across the floor. Wonderful noise, NOT!)
Well, we got up showered, dressed and headed to the Lido for breakfast. When we got upstairs we discovered another ship docked, a Royal Carribean, and another Carnival in the inlet getting ready to come in and dock. That is about 8,000 people. We had our breakfast proceeded to the room gathered our stuff and headed off the ship. By the time we returned to the ship about an hour later another Royal Carribean ship had docked. So now there are about 10,000 people in port. That does not include the crew on board the ships.
It was very HOT!! We shopped a little and bought a few things including a new turtle for me and a monkey for my key chain. I will let Tate played with it when we get home, it makes a noise, cute! They had some mini cans of pringles for $7 a can, ouch. We went back on board and headed to deck 9 to play cards. We played auction rummy this time and I lost! He won. Now he is ahead.
Then, we headed to the Lido for lunch. I had a hamburger and he had hot dogs. And of course an ice cream cone. Then, back to deck 9 where he read and I did dot to dot. After a while I went to the cabin and he talked to a man from Atlanta who is a Methodist. He finally came to the cabin and we napped. We both snored loudly and woke ourselves!
I wanted to watch sail away so I dressed and we went upstairs about 4:15. All aboard was 4:30. At 5 o’clock they had started to leave the ropes go but the 2 Royal Carribean ships had beat us and one was already out and the second one was getting ready to go. We went back to the room so he could dress and then about 5:30 went up so he could stop at the desk and we could meet the dance couple for supper.
After supper we did not go to the variety show because it was a singer we had heard twice before and in 45 minutes she will sing about 3 songs and then talk and do dumb stuff with the audience. She has a beautiful voice and I like to hear her sing but I don’t like the other stuff she does. So went to the comedy show.
The comic who missed his flight to Roatan had flown into Cozumel and was doing all 3 shows tonight. Funny guy. We enjoyed the show.
Well, as David said his last 2 talks are tomorrow so we will be up at 6:30. He still needs to practice yet tonight. Also, we need to go to the disembarkation talk tomorrow at 11:15 to see what we need to know. Hopefully we can get luggage tags that will let us get off in the first group after the carry off luggage people. Then, we can get on the road early.
Love to you all, Mom, Granny and Bonnie
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