April 26, 2023

We are two wild and crazy cruisers.  We blew off the soloist last night for some extra shuteye and tonight there is no show, so we will get some emore xtra shut eye.  I am glad someone else is paying for this cruise!

My talk today, and for the rest of the cruise, was in/will be in the Royal Theater.  The venue is much larger than the 270, and basically the same size crowd in attendance, but they were spread out far and wide.  Today’s talk was “Red: The Color of Desire,” and afterwards a lady told me she was an art teacher and had learned a lot to help her in her class (pat on the back for me – and now my arm hurts).  A couple came down and asked questions and we chatted for a long time.  Jim (his name is Jim) and Shannon said they wished I was still preaching so they could come and hear me.  I told them I was the first and third Sunday of the month.  They said they were planning a trip from their home in Florida to New England, and asked for directions from I-75 to I-20 to Crawfordville.  That will be a long drive to go to church.

As my cruise buddy says, the Captain has found some waves, and we are staggering around a little (stone cold sober – stone cold, stone cold).  The two stone colds are for all of the fans of the WWE out there.  I told one lady who was as wobbly as we two, that it is the drunks who are walking straight and the sober who are wobbling.

There is a sound outside our stateroom that we thought was stuff being moved around in the supply closet next door, but we have figured out that is waves against the side of the ship.  We are the last room down the corridor on this deck, so that seems to make sense.  Anyway the motion of the ocean should facilitate sleep.

Until tomorrow then, and “The Lady in Gold.”

TTFN