Thursday, May 17, 2012

DAY 22, 23 TYPICAL DAY AT SEA

Leaving Dubai, we sailed back through the Strait of Hormuz, back through the Gulf of Oman, and back out into the Arabian Sea with Pakistan on our left, and then out across the Arabia Sea on our way to India. The water is choppy and our ship has started to rock and roll a bit. For awhile in the afternoon as I lay napping, my body just jiggled back and forth like jello from the motion. In the evening, we picked up a noticeable roll so that everyone looked a bit drunk as they walked along, lurching from one side to the other. I happen to enjoy this kind of motion, but not everyone agrees with me.

We are enjoying typical, busy shipboard days. Here’s what we did on Day 22.

9:00 AM Woke up, dressed and were in the Windjammer buffet by 9:15.

9:15-9:45 Ate a bit of breakfast. (Fashion critique: women over fifty should NOT wear crushed black velvet mini skirts ever, and certainly not at the breakfast hour!!! And then there was the woman who had way too much plastic surgery -- it looked like she couldn‘t close her eyes …. Very weird looking.)

10-11 AM Attended a lecture on Goa (very informative -- we actually did something useful)

11-12 AM Uploaded a post to my blog, did hand laundry, uploaded Dubai photos to my netbook

12 Noon Had to set our clocks ahead another hour (we’ve been doing this rather frequently -- by the time we reach Singapore I’ll be more than a whole day ahead of my home time)

1 - 3 PM Read and napped in my room (we had to rest up from an exhausting morning)

3-4 PM Ate finger sandwiches and pudding for tea time in the Windjammer. Brought a bunch of cookies back to the room for breakfast snacks tomorrow (you never know when you might need a snack)

4-6:30 PM Read and napped in my room then dressed for a formal night at dinner (at 4:27 my sister killed a fly in our room after a hot pursuit)

7-9 PM Ate dinner in the dining room.

9-10 PM Went to the theater for a great show -- very good singer. Learned from the cruise director that there are 3000 passengers on this cruise of 52 different nationalities. The largest group was British, then American, then Aussie, and German.

10-12 AM Went to a different bar where our favorite bartender is working for this cruise. Drank brandy alexanders (yes, plural and yes, we didn’t have dessert for dinner so the drinks were our dessert).

12-1 AM Read, ate chocolate tidbits that we received as a thank you gift for continuing onto a second cruse, and finally fell asleep.

See, traveling is not always easy -- there’s always something we must be doing. I think we’re getting the hang of it finally.

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