May 25 - Two lazy sea days

 I’m not joking when I say that they are lazy sea days.  If it were not for Trivia at 11:15 I might have actually stayed in bed half the day.  It felt so good with both sets of drapes closed tightly so none of that midnight sun could creep in to disturb me. But, I got up and played (we didn’t win – I guess all the smart folks got off last time we were in Dover).

This leg of the cruise has been somewhat stressful I must confess. My dear English friend is going through a crisis for the care of her 98-year-old mother who lives with her.  She had arrangements made for someone very competent to look after her while she was away. But you know what they say about the best laid plans.  There’s been a glitch and so she spends her days making phone calls and texts to make sure her “mum” is being cared for.  I empathize with her, but there’s absolutely nothing I can do.  In fact while we were at sea there’s nothing she can do either.  Oh, getting old is a trial!

We’ve had some pretty good entertainment on this leg of the cruise.  There was a British comedian the other night that I thought was quite funny.  Humor doesn’t always translate well between countries even when they speak the same language, but this guy was good.  I’m still enjoying listening to the band and occasionally dancing despite the fact that my hip is giving me some trouble.  If the ship is moving around at all, you can kind of get on the dance floor and move your feet just a little and between the ship’s movement and that you can look like a great dancer.

Two nights ago the Seabourn Club party for returning passengers was held.  Much to my surprise I’m the most traveled passenger on this cruise.  When they informed me I was, you could have knocked me over with a feather.  I’ve seen many of the passengers on here on previous cruises so I thought for sure one of them would be.  Anyway, I got a huge and beautiful bouquet of flowers and a nice bottle of champagne.  I’ll save that for a girls’ luncheon that I’ll try to arrange for one of our upcoming sea days.

A friend took this and sent it to me.

Well, I’ve rambled on about pretty much nothing for today, so I’ll close.  In Olden tomorrow I’m going to take an easy driving tour to see the scenery.  It’s supposed to rain so I don’t know how good that will be, but I really should get off the ship for a while.  Ciao for now.