October 18, 2008 - At Sea

It was a windy day at sea, too windy to walk the deck even. The Captain announced that the stop in Aden delayed us enough that we will only have 3 hours in Salalah and we would normally have cancelled the stop except for the fact that there are 3 provisioning containers there for us and they can’t be moved to the next port. We’ll dock at a commercial port 20 km from the city and it’s not practical to run shuttle busses for that short a stop. There really isn’t anything to see there except for Job’s Tomb. We attended a couple of lectures, Pat placed 3rd in the blackjack tournament and our team won trivia again. The natives (guests) haven’t revolted yet but we’re waiting for boos & hisses when we win some more. We had dinner with some friends we met on last year’s South America cruise and went to the show to see a very entertaining magician. Following that we went to the Galileo Lounge where Cody, the lead singer for the ship’s theater group, sang and the band played 50’s rock music for dancing. It was a lot of fun and when they shut down at midnight, we spent some time at the blackjack table before retiring for the night.