Reflections of My Travel

no sleep. that’s apparently what you get on your last night of this cruise. the earthquake started at 03:00 and continued until 07:00. yes, that’s right, four straight hours of noise and shaking and glasses falling off the desk. i am very displeased with this. once the commotion finally stopped, we napped a bit before grabbing some breakfast. we ran into anastasia and talked with her until it was time for her to disembark. it was a shame to see her go. we’ve really enjoyed getting to know her this week. for some reason, even though we were staying on the ship, we had to go through customs. it really didn’t make sense to me but that’s what we did. there were about six of us sticking around so, after the crowds were gone, a crew-member walked us out to the customs agents and back on to the ship. it wasn’t bad, probably ten or fifteen minutes. we inquired about getting our room switched to something, anything, that wouldn’t shake apart when pulling into a port but we got brushed off. we then went back to our room and slept until lunch time.

it was a little strange to go up for lunch and not see any of the folks that we had been running into and talking with all week. not only is it all new faces, but there is a disturbingly large group of red-hatters. seeing them reminds me of her which, naturally, makes me a bit sad.i wonder if she’s here and i just haven’t seen her yet. anyhow, we repeated all of the embarkation fun – muster drill, set sail, welcome aboard. for some reason, they changed our dinner time to the earlier seating so we had to talk with the maître d’ to get that changed and we rested up until then. we are sitting at six-topper table but only one other couple was there tonight, aj and carolyn from tn. we then went to the welcome aboard show. i’m afraid that all of the entertainment is going to be deja vu for us. the cruise director had the same schtick. the comedian was tim harkleroad again and, while his routine was the same, i thought that the delivery was much better this time and i enjoyed it much more.

towel animal du jour:  bulldog!