November 4, 2023

At 5 o’clock this morning I was wide-awake.  There was an awful noise in the room.  I thought the ship’s gears were grinding in a forbidding fashion.  Either that or a wild animal had gotten loose in 10502.  It was neither.  It was my beloved wife.  She had gotten awake at 1 o’clock and moved to the couch.  She said somewhere around 4 o’clock she heard a horrible noise and thought a creature of monstrous proportions was about to consume her.  Well, you know that the noise was emanating from first one of us and then the other.  So at 5 o’clock we just got up.  I rehearsed my talk while she played scrabble.  Then our room service breakfast came – because my talks are at 9:30, except for tomorrow at 10:30 – we don’t have time to go to the Wind Jammer.  Today I had a croissant and grits.  Mom had two chocolate donuts.  We are exciting.

After supper – we both chose tiger shrimp, which were not real tiger shrimp, but tiger cubs – we strolled down the promenade to Serento’s, the pizza place, where we selected a table for our nightly game of Casino.  I was the first over 100, but tonight’s shuffle up and deal ended with Bonnie holding the lead 151 to 148.  And there was music again tonight, this time Big Band Music, another favorite, and this time the music was at a tolerable level, still a touch loud but nothing like last night.

There is a magician performing tonight – one of my favorites, not so with my beloved – but he goes on too late, way past our bedtime.  He performs at 10 p.m.  It must be the sea air or something because we are under the covers much earlier than we are 233 Woodland Drive.  He’s back on tomorrow night at 8 o’clock, so we will catch him then.

Because my talk tomorrow, “Are We There Yet?” is at 10:30, we will have time to go to the Wind Jammer for breakfast, and pass on a continental breakfast via room service.

We fall back an hour tonight, which would make us 2 hours different from you, but you will fall back an hour also, which should make us 3 hours different.  I guess we’ll figure it out tomorrow.

Until then.

TTFN