ALL OUR BAGS ARE PACKED

March 17, 2020

We’re ready to go.  And however the rest of that song goes.

We survived St. Patrick’s Day with no pinches and minimal wearing of the green.  There were some strange costumes and door decorations.  Obviously some folks plan better than we do for these kinds of things.

We played a general knowledge trivia and scored 8 out of 20, a scifi trivia and scored 14 out of 20 (Michael, I couldn’t remember “Firefly” – I knew it, but it just wouldn’t come), a cats and dogs trivia and scored 8 out of 20, and Carnival’s version of are you smarter than a fifth grader and scored 19 out of 21 – we missed the color of Australia’s $100 bill (the trivia reader is an Aussie and he substituted that: answer “green” we put “red”) and I overruled Mom’s “kidney” for “liver.”  It mattered not in the end for the winners of that last one got a perfect 21.

We said good byes to our wait staff and to the girls who helped us with our dining room arrangements (neither one of us was too fond of our last night’s dinner – if I were on death row and that was my last meal, I would have sent it back: starting with the escargot, nothing was hot, barely warm, but the carrot cake for dessert and the decaf coffee to wash it down were good, Mom’s cherry pie was sicky sweet and rated a just so so).

We went to the disembarkation talk today – nothing we hadn’t heard before except for the details about our docking in the morning.  Pier 92 at San Pedro at 0600.  No idea how long it will take to clear customs but we have ZERO infection on board so prayerfully that will speed things along.  After the talk I cornered the entertainment director (who had given us luggage tags #1 – did I tell you that yesterday?) and asked him what our disembarking time and rendezvous station would be.  And he put us with the Diamond and Platinum folk (whom I call the which of which there is no whicher), meeting in the Phantom Theater at 7:15.  Complimentary shuttle to the airport.

And I have us checked in online so we are ready to fly.

And thus concludeth the blog for this cruise.  We are scheduled to touch down in Augusta at 21:44 hours (9:44 p.m. for you non-24 hour time keepers) with Uber Jennifer at the gate.

Continue, please, to pray for smooth arrangements and smooth travel.
TTFN