Tuesday, August 20

It’s early morning on day 2 of our cruise. The sun is just coming up. Mike is still asleep. I’ve been awake for a while and managed to figure out how to use the hot pot to make myself a cup of instant espresso. It’s actually pretty good. I just opened up the balcony door and it’s foggy and way too chilly to sit out there with my coffee. I’m not sure why the screen of my iPad keeps jumping around. I hardly ever use this keyboard. It’s dark in the room and I only have a small light on at the desk where I’m sitting to allow Michael to continue sleeping. It is what it is I guess. Today is a sea day and we’ll spend more time. Exploring this huge ship. There are so many people on board-so may different languages! I noticed as we were walking around yesterday that lots of people were taking advantage of their unlimited drinks package and were drunk. I saw two ladies who were at least 75 or 80 in the center hall of the shopping Esplinade hallway dancing, twirling one another around, laughing and then one of them fell down with her legs sticking up in the air and her underpants showing and she was laughing her head off like a hyena.  She obviously wasn’t hurt or feeling any pain! Maybe once or twice a year I’ll have an alcoholic drink but since I have such crazy vision issues and my chronic sinus stuff makes me whoozy anyway alcohol is just not fun at all for me. 

I feel so grateful and blessed to be here. It’s surreal.