No,
not the famous Rolling Stones matter about a mars bar but the rumour going
around the ship like wildfire. It would appear, the story goes, that two ladies
were fighting over access to the heated dryer in the laundry maybe someone
queue jumping but it would appear that one disgruntled lady went back to the
dryer when in full swing and it was quite hot and inserted an unwrapped Mars bar which then covered all their clothes in said dryer. This led almost to
fisticuffs with the Captain being involved in resolving the matter and the
result being the lady who put the Mars bar in will have to pay for all the damaged
clothing to be dry cleaned and with a warning if she causes any more problems
would be taken off at the next port. Wow who said cruising was boring.
This
ship is on a round the world trip from Southampton on 6th Jan and
returning to Southampton 105 nights later so nearly 3.5 months of going round
in circles. Our leg from Southampton to San Francisco is a 25 night trip and
thereafter it goes on to Hawaii and then Australia and around West Asia and
back via the Middle East. That’s a long journey sitting in one place no matter
how nice your cabin is. I think we are now beginning to look forward to dry
land and a bit of roaming.
After
yesterday’s busy and long day it was a day of taking it easy apart from doing
about a two mile fast walk around the ship before lunch and to celebrate we had
our first beer on board and it really tasted good. Noel spent some time
catching up with the photo editing and to get them ready to upload whenever a
suitable internet connection is established.
The
weather today is a little grey but we were still able to see turtles, dolphins
and flying fish and many sea birds.
In
the afternoon we took advantage of not much to do and had a little zizz and
then got ready for another Black Tie function. The food was good as usual and
following that we went to the Crow’s Nest for a nightcap and listen to the so
called singer. This woman really could not sing whilst taking a perfectly good
tune and redesign it in to almost indistinguishable song. After three songs we
had had enough and went back to the room and watched a film about Julian
Strange the man who started WIKILEAKS and upset pretty much all of the world’s
governments.
Another
day at sea tomorrow before we arrive in Huatulco ,Mexico.
Our
pre-purchased internet time is running out fast so I will not upload the BLOG
until the next port of call or until we arrive in SFO as need to save the time
for emails.
