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Saturday, November 16, 2024 I cleverly woke up before my alarm this morning. I am often feeling like I am on fire, and it wakes me up. Today it was just before 4am – “conveniently” before my 4:30 alarm. Keith and I were ready to roll at 5:25. The tiny elevator took only him and […]

Friday, November 15, 2024 We had heard lots of horror stories about waiting to get into the Vatican Museum. Everything we read said take a tour take a tour take a tour. I wasn’t really interested in a tour, because I have been on a tour before. I didn’t need anyone to tell me about

Thursday, November 14, 2024 Today Benjamin is 35! I think this is the first year Keith and I have not played what were you doing 35 years ago RIGHT NOW for the past 48 hours. It was not smooth sailing getting that guy, but we have enjoyed knowing him every second since. In recent years

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 The forecast was for rain, so we did not set early alarms. The ship being pushed sideways into dock at 7am made alarms unnecessary. We resisted getting up (hahahaha lies. We just went back to sleep) until 9, then went to trivia. We joined Frank and Sterling (he was DELIGHTED that

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Today was a planned day at sea. We got 16 at trivia and WON! Actually, we tied but won the tie breaker. (How many years between Jackie and John Kennedy? I knew it was more than you think, so our 8 beat 3 and 5.) Simon suggested we go late to

Monday, November 11, 2024 A loud bing bing bing sound woke us up at 7am this morning. We were supposed to be docked at 7am, but apparently, we weren’t. The captain announced that they were expecting wind of 30 knots but had just had several gusts at 65 knots. They were checking all the things

Sunday, November 10, 2024 Since we’ve been here twice before, we set 9am alarms – no need to hurry off the boat. I woke up three minutes before the alarm beeped, which was perfect. We went to 10am trivia. There were only three teams. We got 16 (again!) and tied. We didn’t win the tiebreaker.

Saturday, November 9, 2024 Keith took this on our way to breakfast. We have a great location on deck 6, aft. When we come out of our hall there is a bank of elevators that no one uses, because there are about 14 rooms in this area. We can pop right up to deck 14

Friday, November 8, 2024 We slept way in after being up very, very late last night. We set our clocks forward an hour today, which kept surprising me all day – the opposite of best-day-of-year. My phone didn’t switch times, so I repeated was off an hour. Getting up at almost 10, then napping didn’t

Thursday, November 7, 2024 Keith, too! Keith, too, went to Africa. We were in Tunisia. I said, “We’re in Africa,” a couple dozen times today. We started at the Tunis Kasbah, or government center. There were a lot of Tunisian flags flying. It is a red flag with a crescent and star on it that