Day 59 ( think) @ sea

Today is day 2 at sea and lots doing.  This am was the chance to sign up for World Cruise games.  This is Crystal’s answer to the Olympics.  Mark  Schultz Olympic Gold Medal winner in Wrestling is the guest Olympian this year.  He gave the first of his talks this morning.

I signed up for shuffleboard, backgammon, free cell.  I also signed up for the relay until my personal trainer Leanne told me that it was power walking really fast so I crossed my name off of that in a hurry.

Bill signed up for shuffleboard single and doubles, backgammon, basketball, golf putting.

We were back in class this afternoon and I knew most of it so I was allowed to go get myself some tea!  I did find out how to make groups for emails so that was great.  Adding contacts and creating events I knew!  We are now working with Pages and Numbers and I do use them just not well!  We have 14 hours of classes this segment!  Today they held a Midway Midday Mixer in the Cove where the band played and they served cocktails.  We went down for a little while to see what was going on. It is incredible that mileage wise we are halfway around the world!

We had dinner this evening in Prego and had a marvelous meal.  Bill had the fish special which was a red snapper and I had the veal marsala.  We were so full we didn’t even look at the dessert menu.   While I was waiting for Bill to get dressed for dinner I decided to go down to the casino for a little while.  I changed the machine from $.25 to $1.00 and I hit for $100.  Pushed the button 2 more times and I got a 2x 2x red 7  $600.  It was a hand pay so I took my $700 and flew out of the casino.  I was only gone 15 minutes Bill thought I had lost my $20 quickly he was happy to see all those Ben Franklins!!!!!!  After dinner we attended the opening ceremony for the WC games and it was very nice.  Other years though they had the guests marching in with their country but this year they only had crew and didn’t have all the flags! But the dancing was incredible!  As they ended the show  "Let the Games begin!"

Hard to believe we are halfway around the world!

Let the Games Begin